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 Surveys, Art History,
SORCERER'S APPRENTICE: A MEMOIR OF PICASSO, PROVENCE, AND DOUGLAS COOPER
Written by Richardson, John
John Richardson's riveting memoir about growing up in England and, at twenty-five, beginning his twelve-year adventure with the controversial art collector Douglas Cooper.
MONTH IN SIENA
Written by Matar, Hisham
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.
PIRANESI DRAWINGS
Written by Vowles, Sarah
The Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is best known for his dramatic etchings of the architecture and antiquities of his adopted home city of Rome and for his extraordinary flights of spatial fancy, such as Le Carceri ("Prisons").
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN ART SINCE 1950
Written by Fowkes, Reuben
In this pathbreaking new history, Maja and Reuben Fowkes introduce outstanding artworks and major figures from across central and Eastern Europe to reveal the movements, theories, and styles that have shaped artistic practice since 1950.
TURNER: SECOND EDITION
Written by Reynolds, Graham
Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolor, drawing, and engraving as J. M. W. Turner. This classic book in the World of Art series traces the artist's career from youthful, picturesque views and watercolors of Gothic ruins, to romantic landscapes and historical compositions, to the darker abstracts of his later career.
CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART: SECOND EDITION
Written by Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield
Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by one particular style, technique, or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude toward art making, incorporating and building upon the structures from which older, pre- colonial and colonial genres were made.
LATIN AMERICAN ART SINCE 1900
Written by Lucie-Smith, Edward
In this classic survey, now updated with full-color images throughout, Edward Lucie-Smith introduces the art of Latin America from 1900 to the present day.
FRANCIS BACON: PAINTING, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOANALYSIS
Francis Bacon was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His works continue to puzzle and unnerve viewers, raising complex questions about their meaning.
GOLDEN FLEA: A STORY OF OBSESSION AND COLLECTING
Written by Rips, Michael
For decades, the Chelsea Flea Market on the west side of Manhattan drew shoppers seeking treasures in booths crammed with vintage dresses, ancient swords, glass eyeballs, Afghan rugs, West African fetish dolls, Old Master paintings, and more. In The Golden Flea, acclaimed writer Michael Rips ("a magical storyteller"-- USA Today) recounts his obsession with this charmed world.
AFTER THE WAGNERIAN BOUILLABAISSE: ESSAYS ON EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE ART, XX-XXI
Written by Welchman, John C
Critical analyses of some of the major European artists and movements in the twentieth century, delivered with verve and insight.
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