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The machine was a primary concern for the Italian futurists. A tool in the factory, it was also a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem and a symbol of past technologies. This groundbreaking book explores the culture of machines in Italian futurism after the First World War, taking in literature, art, photography, music and film.

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"Nowhere is the complex and destructive painter Jackson Pollock (1912--1956) revealed with more compassion and insight than in this exemplary biography. Friedman, a friend of Pollock's and active in the"

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This work examines the fascinating life and art of the African American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988).

Jean-Michel Basquiat was barely out of his teens when he rocketed to the center of New Yorks art scene.

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Ignored or derided until now, this book looks at Cameron's allegorical work in relation to the political and artistic zeitgeist of the Victorian period. -- .

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Sunday Times Art Book of the Year The astonishing life of Kenneth Clark - the greatest British art historian of his time. As writer and presenter of the TV series Civilisation he was responsible for the greatest syntheses of art, music, literature and thought ever made - 'a contribution to civilisation itself'.

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This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe.

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This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe.

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From bottle gardens, batman and the bachelor pad to garden gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a range of objects to explore the meanings and uses of kitsch. An accessible, comprehensive introduction for students and informed readers, it adds to debates on taste in cultural theory and sociology and provides a review of the literature.

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This bibliography pays tribute to the rich and multifaceted artistic accomplishments of women in and from 20th century Latin America. It begins systematically to identify women - painters, sculptors, and others - who have made significant contributions to the history of art in the region.

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The first book-length study of a practice known as "Salon caricature," which flourished in the Parisian illustrated press in the second half of the Nineteenth Century.

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The first comprehensive examination of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), a major twentieth-century writer and multi-media artist. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the intellectual, literary, and artistic currents that animate her relationships with avant-garde movements throughout the Western Hemisphere. -- .

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The first comprehensive examination of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), a major twentieth-century writer and multi-media artist. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the intellectual, literary, and artistic currents that animate her relationships with avant-garde movements throughout the Western Hemisphere. -- .

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Designed for art historians, art students, museum and gallery curators, and art lovers alike, this volume organizes the vast literature surrounding this fascinating, revolutionary, 20th-century art group.

Genuinely new art is always challenging, sometimes even shocking to those unprepared for it.

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Lifestyle revolution charts how class culture, which many thought would be dissolved by mass consumption, was remade in the postwar period from flat-pack furniture, Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle magazines as a world of symbolic goods became an intimate environment alive with new feelings and attitudes.

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This collection explores what Roland Barthes termed the autobiographical turn in art, literature and critical theory since the mid-1960s. Through a variety of perspectives, it examines the relationship between work and life, notions of the self and what autobiography might mean today.