Scot D Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino The Marchesa Luisa Casati was Europe's most notorious celebrity, and its most eccentric. For the first three decades of the twentieth century she...

Francoise Gilot Francoise Gilot met Picasso during the German occupation of Paris, she was twenty-one, he was sixty-two.  For nearly a decade, Gilot shared her life with this giant of the...

Debora Robertson More than any other surface, walls dominate the look of a room, providing the decorator with the opportunity to transform even the most unpromising interior through the use...

Walter F. Morris "This beautifully illustrated book. . . . [is] Both an ethnographic study and an homage to a culture." -Los Angeles Times "Text and pictures combine to give...

Stefano Zuffi January 1, 1996 by Art Books Intl Ltd

Dominic Smith This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake...

Sidney Littlefield Kasfir The twentieth century has been a period of major disruption for traditional institutions in Africa. But even as old forms of art patronage were being suppressed, new...

Paolo Zappaterra  

Michael Rush The most complete and up-to-date overview available of an art form born some forty years ago and now ubiquitous internationally. Video art has moved from brief showings on...

Photographs by Eric Thornburn Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Glasgow 1868-Londres 1928), Scottish architect and designer, had a great influence on twentieth century architecture and decoration. He graduated from the Glasgow School...

Francisco Asensio Cerver January 1, 1996 by RotoVision

Tracy Chevalier   ‘Vividly imagined’ Sunday Telegraph‘Sex and death meet again in [a] marvellous evocation of Edwardian England’ Daily MailThe girl reminded me of my favourite chocolates, whipped hazelnut creams,...