BLACK REFRACTIONS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
An authoritative guide to one of the world's most important collections of African-American art, with works by artists from Romare Bearden to Kehinde...
NINTH STREET WOMEN: LEE KRASNER, ELAINE DE KOONING, GRACE HARTIGAN, JOAN MITCHELL, AND HELEN FRANKENTHALER: FIVE PAINTERS AND THE MOVEMENT
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and...
ART AFTER STONEWALL: 1969-1989
The powerful art that emerged in the wake of the Stonewall Riots and the rise of the LGBTQ liberation movement in the U.S. Art after Stonewall...
Art Surveys, Art History,
CALDER: THE CONQUEST OF SPACE: THE LATER YEARS: 1940-1976
Written by Perl, Jed
The concluding volume of the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved of twentieth-century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The final volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and his
MAN IN THE RED COAT
Written by Barnes, Julian
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending--a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name.
YOUNG AND EVIL: QUEER MODERNISM IN NEW YORK, 1930-1955
Written by Earnest, Jarrett
Lauded by Jerry Saltz as "one of the most reactionary yet radical visions of art," The Young and Evil tells the story of a group of artists and writers active during the first half of the twentieth century, when homosexuality was as problematic for American culture as figuration was for modernist painting. These artists--including Paul Cadmus, Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein, Charles Hen
POPE. L: SHOWING UP TO WITHHOLD
Written by The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Iconoclast and artist Pope.L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze. His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and politically.
FRIDA IN AMERICA: THE CREATIVE AWAKENING OF A GREAT ARTIST
Written by Stahr, Celia
The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today"[An] insightful debut....Featuring meticulous research and elegant turns of phrase, Stahr's engrossing account provides scholarly though accessible analysis for both feminists and art lovers." --Publisher's Weekly
FRANCESCO BONAMI & JUERGEN TELLER: 50 TIMES BONAMI AND OBRIST BY TELLER
Juergen Teller's humorous portrait of both artist and subject, together with Francesco Bonami's 50 portraits of Hans Ulrich Obrist
CONVERSATIONS WITH ARTISTS II
The second installment in Heidi Zuckerman's acclaimed interviews with contemporary artists
BRIDGET RILEY: THE EYE'S MIND: COLLECTED WRITINGS, 1965-2019
Now updated, a classic text of meditations on painting and perception from op-art pioneer Bridget Riley
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