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Mario Giacomelli

A. Crawford Alessandra Mauro

With the recent death of Mario Giacomelli (1925–2000), Europe has lost one of its most talented photographers. Giacomelli trained initially as a typographer and this early interest in graphic effect became a central...

Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan is among the best-known Italian artists to have emerged internationally in the 1990s. His work has featured at the Venice Biennale in 1993, 1997 and 1999 and in major venues worldwide, including the...

Michelangelo. Paintings, Sculpture, Architecture

Ludwig Goldscheider

First published in 1953, this book remains a classic of the literature on Michelangelo. It continues to be the only volume that contains illustrations of all his paintings, sculpture and architecture. The book is...

Modernism

Richard Weston

Modernist ideas have pervaded every form of design, from graphics to architecture, as well as being a key influence on art, literature and music. In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of...

Modern Architecture Since 1900 Curtis. Современная архитектура с 1900 г

W. Curtis

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Modern House

J. Welsh

The twentieth century has produced numerous innovative and memorable designs for private houses, many of which have become architectural icons worldwide. In the 1920s and 1930s the private house was the means by which...

Modern House 2

Clare Melhuish

Following Phaidon’s Modern House (published 1993), Modern House 2 is a survey of the world’s most innovative contemporary houses. Organized thematically, it examines over thirty houses considering contemporary issues,...

Modigliani

D. Hall

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or...

Neoclassicism

David Irwin

Neoclassicism was the favourite style of Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson, and made Josiah Wedgwood’s fortune. The most pervasive style in the history of European art, it was deployed in the design of houses, churches,...

Outland

Roger Ballen

Outland is the culmination of almost twenty years of work for artist-photographer Roger Ballen and amounts to one of the most extraordinary photographic documents of the late twentieth century. Beginning with the...

Paul McCarthy

American artist Paul McCarthy creates sculptures figuring animal /vegetable/ human hybrids, Disney-esque installations and slapstick performances in a weird evocation of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual...

Pioneering British "High Tech"

John McKean K. Powell

These are three highly feted and ground-breaking Modern British buildings. The extremely influential Leicester University Engineering Department Building, with its powerful contradictory geometry, established the...

Pissarro

C. Lloyd

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or...

Places of Worship

Vaughan Hart Ivan Margolius Philip Drew

St Paul’s Cathedral is an iconic British building combining Renaissance and Baroque elements. Vaughan Hart examines Wren’s extraordinary exterior, brilliantly constructed dome and radiant interior. The Church of the...

R. M. Schindler

Judith Sheine

R M Schindler (1887–1953) was a pivotal Modernist architect who remained largely unrecognized by the critical establishment during his lifetime. A pragmatist and theoretician, Schindler designed more than 500...

Raw Creation. Outsider art and beyond John Maizels

John Maizels

The art of visionaries, folk creators, spiritualists, recluses, the ‘mad’ and the socially marginalized, once scorned, is now recognized as speaking with great immediacy and power. Among the earliest to value and...

Regency Style

Steven Parissien

The Regency period (c.1780–1837) saw the development of what is today one of the most popular styles in architecture and design. The combined influences of the antique and the exotic, together with the technological...

Rembrandt

Michael Kitson

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or...

Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Volume 3

P. Buchanan

The publication of the third volume in this series of monographs marked a watershed in Piano’s career. In 1995 the Building Workshop completed Kansai Airport in Japan, which is Piano’s largest work to date. The...

Richard Rogers Complete Works. Volume 2

K. Powell

This second volume of the complete works of Richard Rogers examines the work of the Richard Rogers Partnership from 1987 to 1992, picking up from the highly acclaimed Volume 1, published in 1999. Following the...

Richard Rogers Complete Works. Volume 1

K. Powell

Well known as an exponent of good architecture in his own work, Richard Rogers is equally famous for promoting architectural quality and campaigning for the revival of the modern city. This first volume, covering the...

Robert Mangold

Richard Shiff Robert Storr Arthur C. Danto Nancy Princenthal Sylvia Plimack Mangold

Robert Mangold’s gently curving, majestic paintings are among the most beautiful abstract works of the late twentieth century. Emerging in the 1960s, Mangold is often associated with Minimalism for his...

Rossetti

David Rodgers

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) produced some of the most glittering and evocative images of the Victorian era. A member of the influential Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Rossetti found inspiration in the writings of...

Soviet Architecture Competition

Stan Douglas

Canadian artist Stan Douglas combines traditional cinematic techniques with new technologies to produce remarkable video installations. These visually complex works often look at the history of television, video and...