In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clarka€?s Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri Lefebvrea€?s understanding of arta€?s function in relation to urban space. By e
In this brilliant time capsule of recent world events, celebrated artist Fred Tomaselli intrepidly and colorfully reimagines the front pages of the New York Times. Hurricane Katrina's devastation of N
" For more than a dozen years, a soft spoken, unassuming woman dominated design at The Walt Disney Studios with a joyful creativity and exuberant color palette that stamped the look of many classic Di
This compelling examination of the work and lives of Expressionist artists Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter and Dadaists Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber illuminates the roles of gender and the applie
Art. A book of collages. To begin each of these works I waited at a precipice: I slowed myself intentionally, tarried as a way of honoring what I was about to enter. There is materiality in the form w
"The Paris-born, Venezuelan artist Marisol (b. 1930) burst onto the 1960s New York art scene with large figural sculptures in a wild amalgam of mixed media. Often satirical, Marisol's art is inspired
Outspoken, provocative, and prolific, the artist Ai Weiwei is an internationalphenomenon. In recent years, he has produced an astonishingly varied body of work while continuinghis role as activist, pr
Almost as familiar as the images of the American West he painted and sculpted is the figure of Charles M. Russell himself. Standing or mounted, in boots and wide-brimmed hat, sash knotted at his waist
Nauman Reiterated offers the first scholarly assessment of Bruce Nauman’s production with a in-depth thematic investigation of key works created between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s. Janet Kraynak prov
This is the first monograph on the painter Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558) who explained his revelations on God’s nature with hundreds of highly sophisticated diagrams that allow us a rare glimpse into
"This groundbreaking publication offers a reassessment of renowned modernist Joan Mirao's late-career works, created between 1963 and 1981. This body of work, almost entirely unknown in the United Sta
For more than four decades, the elusive but influential Los Angeles-based artist JohnKnight has developed a practice of site specificity that tests both architectural and ideologicalboundaries of the
For more than four decades, the elusive but influential Los Angeles-based artist JohnKnight has developed a practice of site specificity that tests both architectural and ideologicalboundaries of the
Uses flaps and pull tabs to present an interactive journey through Picasso's works of art, from his earliest paintings to such great works as "Guernica."
The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehen
Antoine Chrysostome Quatremere de Quincy (1759-1849), arguably the foremost French classicist and art historian of the nineteenth century, is relatively little-known in English language scholarship. T
Gego (1912–1994) pioneered a new direction in art with her innovative sculptures of the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Germany as Gertrud Goldschmidt, she fled the Nazi regime and moved to Caracas, Venezuel
