20th Century Modern Art

Subtle and wide-ranging in its account, this study explores the impact of Australian art in Britain in the two decades following the end of World War II and preceding the 'Swinging Sixties'. Publishing for the first time previously unavailable archival material, this book demonstrates how the work o..

Examining the intersections between art and scientific approaches to the natural world, Biocentrism and Modernism reveals another side to Modernism's development. While historians have usually framed this movement as being mechanistic and "against" nature, the essays in this collection illuminate th..

Examining the intersections between art and scientific approaches to the natural world, Biocentrism and Modernism reveals another side to Modernism's development. While historians have usually framed this movement as being mechanistic and "against" nature, the essays in this collection illuminate th..

Rooted in the study of objects, this book addresses the role of art and visual culture in discourses surrounding nuclear science and technology, atomic power, and nuclear warfare in Cold War Britain. Far from insular in its concerns, this volume draws upon cross-cultural dialogues between British an..

Rooted in the study of objects, this book addresses the role of art and visual culture in discourses surrounding nuclear science and technology, atomic power, and nuclear warfare in Cold War Britain. Far from insular in its concerns, this volume draws upon cross-cultural dialogues between British an..

Focusing on his evocative and profound references to children and their stories, Children's Stories and '"Child-Time" in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde studies the relationship between the artist's work on childhood and his search for a transfigured concept of time. As..

Focusing on his evocative and profound references to children and their stories, Children's Stories and '"Child-Time" in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde studies the relationship between the artist's work on childhood and his search for a transfigured concept of time. As..

Unlike accounts that focus on 1940s Surrealism in the U.S. as a point of departure for the ascendance of the New York School, this study contends that Surrealism has been integral to the development of American visual culture over the course of the twentieth century. Through analysis of Surrealism i..

Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design history survey that focuses on designers and objects, this is an in-depth study of the ideologies, org..

Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design history survey that focuses on designers and objects, this is an in-depth study of the ideologies, org..

Designing UNESCO represents the first full-length monograph on the genesis, construction and reception of the Paris headquarters of the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The author shows its history to constitute a unique nexus of modernist practices in twen..

Designing UNESCO represents the first full-length monograph on the genesis, construction and reception of the Paris headquarters of the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The author shows its history to constitute a unique nexus of modernist practices in twen..