This reference work deals with all aspects of Western art from 1300 to the present day. It provides information on painters, sculptors, and graphic artists, technical processes, terminology, theory, schools, movements, patrons and collecting, and much more.

This monograph presents a chronically based account of Kiff's career. It is illustrated with a selection of works dating from the 1960s to 2000 and describes in detail Kiff's working methods and use of various media, analysing in particular his group of works known as The Sequence .

The plans for the gigantic Monument to the Third International were completed in 1920 by Vladimir Tatlin. This book investigates the sources and symbolism of Tatlin's Tower and considers not only its significance but also the role of allegory in abstraction and as an expression of man's highest aspirations.

David Nash is an artist renowned for working with wood to form large, dramatic and tactile sculptures. He has created a significant and varied body of work in which the relationship between man and nature is a central theme. This book is a monograph on this acclaimed artist.

William Scott, born in 1913, first came to the public's attention when he participated in the Arts Council's exhibition at the 1951 Festival of Britain. His work ranges from abstract paintings to still lifes with multiple levels of paint, and multiple levels of meaning. This book on Scott and his art includes work from various periods.

Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) is recognised as one of the great masters of 20th-century art. This study of his life and work is reissued here in a shorter paperback format, without the supplementary illustrations, but otherwise retaining the substance and character of the original 1994 publication.

The parameters of sculpture have shifted inexorably. This text investigates the different approaches employed by British sculptors today. It ranges from established masters such as Anthony Caro, William Turnbull, Eduardo Paolozzi and Lynn Chadwick to the latest generation including David Mach, Don Brown, Ron Mueck, Tim Lewis and Nicola Hicks.

In the last four decades the parameters of sculpture have shifted inexorably. Now, with the rise of artists like Jake & Dinos Chapman and Marc Quinn, the boundaries are even broader. Norbert Lynton's authoritative text investigates the many different approaches employed by British sculptors today.

Jack Smith is one of Britain's leading abstract artists, certainly a ceaselessly inventive one. The aim of this book is to examine aspects of his work, and thus also to rid him of the old label which art historians and curators still associate him with after 40 years of confident, brilliant paintings without realistic subject-matter.

This updated edition, which includes a new chapter about art in the 1980s, explores artwork of the 20th century, from 1900 to the present day. The text examines the motives behind the main developments, and argues that they are serious and intelligent attempts to make art honest and significant.

Jack Smith is one of Britain's leading abstract artists, certainly a ceaselessly inventive one. The aim of this book is to examine aspects of his work, and thus also to rid him of the old label which art historians and curators still associate him with after 40 years of confident, brilliant paintings without realistic subject-matter.