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Art Themes and Movements

Pop (Themes & Movements)

Mark Francis, Hal Foster Phaidon Press Phaidon Press
From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word Pop described art, film, photography and architectural design which engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass media. Unlike books which present Pop art in isolation, this is a...
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Art and Photography (Themes & Movements S.)

David Campany Phaidon Press Phaidon Press
Art and Photography is the first book of its kind to survey the major presence of photography in artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. Today photography is art's pre-eminent medium, yet it took the whole of the last century for it to acquire...
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Minimalism (Themes & Movements)

James Meyer Phaidon Press Phaidon Press
For more than 20 years, Gregory Battcock's Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology has been the book on this deceptively simple approach to art-making, which sought to remove any trace of the artist's hand or emotion from the work. (Detractors...
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Land & Environmental Art (Themes & Movements)

Phaidon Press Phaidon Press
This book fully documents the 1960s Land Art movement as well as surveying later examples of environmental art to the present day. Earthworks, environments, performances and actions by artists ranging from Ana Mendieta, Robert Smithson or Walter de...
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Art and Feminism (Themes & Movements)

Helena Reckitt Phaidon Press Phaidon Press
No question about it, Art and Feminism is the basic reference book for feminist art. Part of Phaidon's excellent Themes and Movements series, it surveys three decades of a tumultuous history with a brief but inclusive essay, reproductions of...
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Arte Povera (Themes and Movements)

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Phaidon Press Phaidon Press
Arte Povera is Italy's most important and influential post-war art movement. Originally championed by the leading art critic Germano Celant, it included internationally recognized artists such as Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounelli, Mario and Marisa...
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Conceptual Art (Themes and Movements)

Peter Osborne Phaidon Press Phaidon Press
Conceptual art marks a major turning point in late twentieth-century art. An art of ideas - which can be written, published, performed, fabricated, or which can simply remain inside your head - it is also an art of questions. Since its emergence in...
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The Artist's Body (Themes & Movements)

Tracey Warr Phaidon Press Phaidon Press
An Intriguing and Diverse Survey of Some of the Most Important Artists of the Century; New Affordable Format. As part of its critically-acclaimed "Themes and Movements" series, Phaidon Press is pleased to announce the new edition of THE ARTIST'S...
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Surrealism (Themes & Movements)

Mary Ann Caws Phaidon Press Phaidon Press
Surrealism is the first in an expanded range of Themes and Movements titles which look beyond the post-1945 period to survey all of the twentieth century's major art movements. Mary Ann Caws is an internationally respected scholar of Surrealism who...
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Dada (Themes and Movements)

Rudolf Kuenzli Phaidon Press Phaidon Press
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