Bestselling author Sinclair McKay gives a gripping account of a murder in the heart of Victorian London, which intrigued and scandalised Bloomsbury society.
How should socialist artists respond to the imagery of the mass media? What social role remains to art? John Walker seeks to answer these questions through critical analyses of selected paintings, advertisements and photomontages.
At last, the broader movements of twentieth-century Swiss art--and the individual artists behind them--are tracked through the present day in one standard-setting publication. Swiss Made: Precision and Madness sets the famous Swiss tendency toward precision and order alongside the tendency toward obstinacy ...