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 tiny screens in alternative...

This collection of David Hockney's enchanting paintings and drawings featuring his two dachshunds offers a heartwarming celebration of the age-old bond between people and dogs. 84 illustrations.

German painter Georg Baselitz emerged in the 1960s and quickly distinguishing himself as one of the preeminent artists of the postwar era. Almost 50 years later, we now know his upside-down imagery...

French artist Julien Berthier's second book of drawings--part of a series of artists' projects edited by Christoph Keller--features illustrations of unrealizable projects and absurd scenarios that...

The renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera was also a prodigious storyteller and a witness to some of the most formative social and artistic movements of the twentieth century. A central figure in...

The British Museum houses a wealth of Roman Baroque drawings by many of the masters - Bernini, Pietro da Cortona, Domenichino, Lanfranco and Maratti. The works of these, as well as many minor...

Here Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of...