Art
PAYING THE LAND
Written by Sacco, Joe
From the "heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman" (Economist), a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world
CONSTITUTION ILLUSTRATED
Written by Sikoryak, R
The master of the visual mash-up returns with his signature idiosyncratic take on the Constitution
LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE CARTOONIST
Written by Tomine, Adrian
A comedic memoir about fandom, fame, and other embarrassments from the life of a New York Times bestseller
MAN WITHOUT TALENT
Written by Tsuge, Yoshiharu
A Japanese manga legend's autobiographical graphic novel about a struggling artist and the first full-length work by the great Yoshiharu Tsuge available in the English language. Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of comics' most celebrated and influential artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences.
LUC TUYMANS
Written by Tuymans, Luc
Widely credited with having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s, Belgian painter Luc Tuymans continues to expand our understanding of the medium.
BALTHUS NOTEBOOK
Written by Davenport, Guy
In his 1989 book on Balthus--the storied and controversial artist who worked in Paris throughout the twentieth century--Guy Davenport gives one of the most nuanced, literary, and compelling readings of the work of this master.
VELAZQUEZ. THE COMPLETE WORKS
Written by Delenda, Odile
Manet called him "the greatest painter of all." Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Francis Bacon painted a study of his portrait of Pope Innocent X. Monet and Renoir, Corot and Courbet, Degas and Dalí...
VAN GOGH. THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS
Written by Metzger, Rainer
Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In paintings such as Sunflowers, The Starry Night, and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the representation of texture and mood, light and place.
MODERN ART. A HISTORY FROM IMPRESSIONISM TO TODAY
Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they escaped the power of the Salon by organizing their own independent exhibitions.
WHAT GREAT PAINTINGS SAY. 100 MASTERPIECES IN DETAIL
Written by Hagen, Rainer & Rose-Marie
This important addition to our understanding of art history's masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and culture.
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