From the 1960s to the millennium, Art and Feminism traces the changing art practices, art historical debates, manifestos, challenges, rediscoveries and reawakenings that characterize the dynamic, continuing dialogue between feminism and contemporary art. Feminism has had a crucial impact on late twentieth-century art, inspiring some of the most pioneering developments in sculpture, painting, performance, photography, film and installation.

The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Secession. Their works at first shocked a conservative public, but their successive exhibitions, their magazine Ver Sacrum and their dedication to the applied arts and architecture soon brought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage.

This book is the definitive overview of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing epoch in the whole history of the visual arts: the period from 1960 to the present. Although the modern movement - unchallenged for the last six decades - has lost its dominance, it has been replaced by no single new orthodoxy.

The age of the Baroque, between adsolutism and the Enlightenment, is acknowledged as the last pan-European style. Long regarded as merely an eccentric offshoot of the Renaissance, the Baroque represents a complex and dynamic variety of form and expression in stark contrast to the controlled moderation of Neoclassicism.

From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27.

During Sandro Botticelli's lifetime (1444/45-1510), the influence of his art scarcely reached beyond his native Florence, and following his death he was soon forgotten. He was rediscovered in the 19th century by the Pre-Raphaelites.

At a time when artists were still primarily occupied with religious or mythological subject matter, the great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel (c. 1525-1569) turned his eye on the everyday. Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life in rural or small town communities.

Cong Kim Hoa is one the leading lacquer painters in Vietnam. The sensitivity that flows through her paintings is filled with depth and detail; it is full of felling and abundance that fills Cong Kim Hoa's paintings is not merely a representation of physical forms but rather an expression of her emotional knowledge and personal history. This book presents her lacquer paintings.

"I maintain", stated Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), "that painting is clearly a concrete art whose existence lies only in the representation of real and existing objects...." Courbet, who influenced and advised the fledgling Impressionists, was an outstanding representative of a naturalistic realism that highlights the contradictions and inequities in society.

As you’ll find out in this guide to the fundamentals of cubism, there is more to the genre than its most famous proponent. Cubism—often identified by flattened, geometric shapes, overlapping, simplified forms and fragmented spatial planes—was quite possibly the most influential movement in 20th-century art.

Greek-born Italian painter Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978) was hugely influential in the early years of the Surrealist movement. His paintings during the teens in Paris, where he moved in 1911, caused such a stir that such important figures as Picasso and Paul Eluard immediately praised them. This phase of his work,

Charts the life and work of Degas (1834 - 1917), a truly modern artist of his time. It shows how Degas's work offers an almost voyeuristic glimpse through the keyhole, catching women unawares at the most intimate moments. Degas aimed beyond artistic definitions towards a concept of unity.

Dinh Quan is one the foremost lacquer painters in Vietnam today. He is the first lacquer paniter who haw created truly dynamic lacquer paintings where the actions of the subject matter, often female bodies, tend to move towards abstraction. This book introduces lacquer paintings by him.

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a Germany’s greatest Renaissance artist.
Though Albrecht Dürer is most famous for his engravings, he was also a master painter and draftsman whose work exemplifies the spirit of German art. Dürer’s importance in the German High Renaissance was such that he can be considered to embody the movement entirely.

Cretan-born painter Domenicos Theotocopoulos, better known by his Spanish nickname, El Greco (c.1545-1614), studied under Titian in Venice before settling down in Toledo. Commissioned by the church and local nobility, El Greco produced dramatic paintings marked by distorted figures and vibrant color contrasted with subtle grays.

It was never a sure thing that James Ensor, the great Belgian painter of macabre and ghoulish scenes, would become a nationally revered figure. James Ensor was unusual in many ways. Apart from his training in Brussels, he spent his entire long life in Ostend, seemingly the opposite of cosmopolitan.

During the first two decades of the 20th century, many artists famously experimented with nonrepresentational expression. Taking cues from ideas hinted as by artists such as El Greco, Goya, Van Gogh, and Munch, Expressionists sought to transform reality rather than depict it in any sort of literal fashion. Egon Schiele,

This book brings together a colorful mixture of various works focusing on themes of the fantastic and surreal, starting with Böcklin's "Toteninsel" and including Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer’s dolls, the Australian painter Sidney Nolan, Giger's monsters,

Italian artist Lucio Fontana tore apart the modern art establishment—literally. Trained initially as a sculptor, Fontana (1899-1968) blurred the lines between painting and sculpture by creating works that combined both form and color in a spatial context, most famously exemplified by his slashed canvases of the 1950s and 60s.

The solitude of man and the bleak beauty of nature are prominent themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the great romantic painter. He is considered to be a genius in the history of landscape painting and this work shows us why.