In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and Jay Bernstein ponder
Exploring the paintings of the key artists of the Secessionist Movement within the context of Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, this book, which comprises over 200 colour images, pays special at
This year's issue contains 11 articles on such topics as a reconsideration of an early Marwanid silver drachm, Qarakhanid wall paintings in the citadel of Samarqand, turning the pages of an Ottoman il
Architects, designers, home owners, craftspeople, artists, and collectors will delight in page after page of b&w photos selected from folio volumes published in the mid-1920s depicting splendid ex
How do art and craft relate to each other and, more important, what can they do to the artist? In this collection of 13 essays, contributors focus on these questions and how they influence and are inf
This book is a collection of papers from the 15th Giorgio Levi Della Vida Conference which explore the meaning of Islamic art in liminal contexts. The volume opens with an extended essay on various mo
The evolution of Dieter Roth''s magnificent print series, revealing his astonishingly creative response to London''s most famous landmark.Dieter Roth''s "6 Piccadillies" are among the most celebrated
In the dark and playful tradition of illustrators such as Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, An Alphabet for Lonely Children takes the reader to a place where actions and curious thoughts are less restraine
This fourth edition of Sir John Hale’s classic history of England and the Italian Renaissance includes a detailed introduction by Edward Chaney surveying scholarly developments since the book was firs
This is the first book devoted to Marion Mahony Griffin's graphic work and presents a new critical interpretation of her art. She was the second woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of T
A series of beautiful watercolor paintings by a renowned artist and illustrator evokes the rugged landscapes of coastal Maine, capturing old farmhouses, tidal coves, lobster boats, and rock-strewn, fo
Elizabeth Catlett, born in Washington, DC, in 1915, is widely acknowledged as a major presence in African American art, and her work is celebrated as a visually eloquent expression of African American
André Salmon was one of the premier art critics of his day and the author of two important eyewitness accounts of early twentieth century art in France, La jeune peinture française and La jeune sculpture française. These works capture the revolutionary spirit of the period and include references and jokes of a small coterie of artists and poets that included Picasso, Guillaume Apollinare, Max Jacob, Georges Braque, and Salmon himself. This is the first English-language translation of Salmon's first two books, which serve as the primary sources on the Fauves, the Cubists, and their avant-garde contemporaries. Gersh-Ne∫ic's translation includes annotations that expand upon the period, most notably the literary references that came so naturally to Salmon. His rapport with his peers becomes transparent, providing insight into the studio banter that gave rise to some of the art work of that era, particularly Picasso's collages. The introduction calls attention to Salmon's main criteria as a
The history of America is largely a history of the sea. This marvelous book features a selection of more than two hundred of the finest objects from Mystic Seaport that tell the history of America and
After beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, Still Looking then considers the curious case of Martin Johnson Heade and extols two
Music lovers will delight in the beautiful color paintings and eloquent prose portraits in The Steinway Collection: Paintings of Great Composers. Chopin, Wagner, Liszt, Beethoven, Berlioz, Mozart, Ve
This original analysis of the representation and self-representation of women in literature and visual arts revolves around multiple early modern senses of "painting": the creation of visual art in th
Peter Fischli and David Weiss are Swiss artists who first began working together in the late 1970s. Their sculpture, video and photographic works all generate a unique atmosphere of concentration and
Between 1956 and 1968 the rise of Pop radically shifted the boundaries between popular culture, the vernacular, the everyday, on one hand and the established aesthetic limits of art, photography, cine
