Per Kirkeby was born in Denmark in 1938 and came to prominence as part of the rise of New Painting in the early 1980s, alongside artists including Georg Baselitz and A R Penck. This book explores the trajectory of an artistic career that has spanned half a century.

Explores Asian American visual art. This book focuses on works produced during the watershed 1990s, when surging Asian immigration had significantly altered the demographic, cultural, and political contours of Asian America, and a renaissance in Asian American art and visual culture was well underway.

Following in the tradition of Phaidon's The Art Book , this is an illustrated dictionary which presents in alphabetical order the work of 500 great artists from the 20th century. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of a key work and a short text about the work of the artist.

Explores artistic production surrounding the world's most famous public transportation system, from just before its opening in 1904 onwards. Using images, this work offers perspectives on ways in which the subway has been used as a subject about which to make art, as a site within which to make art, and as a canvas upon which to make art.

One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was a master of self-invention. This book demonstrates the ways in which Duchamp willfully manipulated the techniques of portraiture both to secure his reputation as an iconoclast and to establish himself as a major figure in the art world.

Offers an analysis of the seismic shift that took place when the modernist formalism which had underpinned thinking about art in the first half of the late twentieth-century. This book shows how the diverse art of this period is to be understood and on what basis judgments are to be made about the merits of specific works.

A collection of Outsider art. It brings together the best of subversive, intelligent, attention grabbing artists, from Tank Girl and Gorrilaz creator, Jamie Hewlett to international artist collective Faile and Conor Harrington.

A monograph on Rozanne Hawksley, a formidable artist who has broken down barriers through her body of mixed-media work that provides a powerful and mature narrative about war and other world events, as well as the role and fate of women. It offers an insight into the life and practice of this significant figure.

British artist Lucian Freud is widely considered the most important figurative painter. Master portraitist and specialist in nudes, Freud uses impasto to create depth and intensity while restraining his color palate to mostly muted hues. His portraits may be physically unflattering to their subjects, but they are honest, frank, and unapologetic.

St Ives is unique in British art history. This title provides an account of St Ives and its artists. It integrates the St Ives artists into the cultural narrative of twentieth-century Britain, especially from the 1930s onwards.

Reinventing Colour 1950 to Today.

In February 1972 Henry Moores sculpture studios in the English countryside at Much Hadham were filled with the preparations for his retrospective exhibition in Florence. In search of peace and quiet, he went into a smaller room overlooking the fields where a local farmer grazed his sheep.

A collection of essays by some of the most internationally acclaimed writers on art introduces artistic challenges of the twentieth century.

Looks at various aspects of buying, selling, and creating serious art. This book takes readers inside one of seven key arenas: the auction room, the museum, the studio, the Basel art fair, the Venice Biennale, the magazines, and the art school.

Gerhard Richter is one of the foremost artists of his generation. This book provides a wider selection of Richters texts, from all periods of his career. It includes letters and interviews; private reflections from personal correspondence; and, excerpts from journals discussing the intentions, subjects, methods and sources of his works.

From the first Modernist exhibitions in the late 1890s to the Soviet rupture with the West in the mid-1930s, Russian artists and writers came into wide contact with modern European art and ideas. This book presents Russian and Soviet views of Western art during this critical period of cultural transformation.

Evokes the lives of some of the great artists, from Picasso and Duchamp to Joseph Beuys and Louise Bourgeois, guiding the reader through the maze of different styles and movements. This book features entries on rising stars such as Marlene Dumas, Shirin Neshat and Zhang Xiaogang.

The Blaue Reiter ('Blue Rider') group of artists was formed in Munich in 1911 on the initiative of two leading artists of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, the pioneer of purely abstract painting, and Franz Marc, the creator of mysterious, abstracted animal pictures. This title describes and interprets the work and brief biography of these artists.