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,
UNFINISHED PALAZZO: THE STORY OF THREE WOMEN WHO SEDUCED AND BEGUILED VENICE LUISA CASATI, DORIS CASTLEROSSE, AND PEGGY GUGGENHEIM
Written by Mackrell, Judith
Judith Mackrell brings to life the history of Venice's mysterious and idiosyncratic Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, "the Unfinished Palazzo," through the lives of three of its most eccentric, passionate, and rule-breaking residents--Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse, and Peggy Guggenheim. Venice, 1750: The powerful Venier family commissions a beautiful palazzo on the Grand Canal, one they inten
LEONARDO DA VINCI'S CODEX LEICESTER: A NEW EDITION: VOLUME I: THE CODEX
Leonardo's greatest work of science beautifully reproduced for the 500th anniversary of his death. This edition offers a high-quality facsimile reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester, a collection of his scientific writings.
GRANT WOOD'S SECRETS
Written by Taylor, Sue
Incorporating copious archival research and original close readings of American artist Grant Wood's iconic as well as lesser-known works, Grant Wood's Secrets reveals how his sometimes anguished psychology was shaped by his close relationship with his mother and how he channeled his lifelong oedipal guilt into his art.
OROZCO'S AMERICAN EPIC: MYTH, HISTORY, AND THE MELANCHOLY OF RACE
Written by Coffey, Mary K
Between 1932 and 1934, José Clemente Orozco painted the twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library.
WILLIAM BLAKE: THE DRAWINGS FOR DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY
Written by Schutze, Sebastian
Imagination Ablaze William Blake's spectacular illustrations to The Divine Comedy
ART, NO-ART & ANTI-ART
Written by Harry Ruhé
Dutch gallerist, collector, and author Harry Ruhé presents a treasure trove of ?relics? alongside some ?normal? art collected over the last 50 years. From an early age, Ruhé had been captivated by the revolutionary art movements of the 1960s, and by kinetic art and Fluxus in particular.
TROY
Written by Donnellan, Victoria
For over 3,000 years the myth of Troy has fascinated artists and audiences alike--from the epic tales of Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid to retellings from Chaucer to Madeline Miller, and stagings from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida to Brad Pitt's rendering of the hero Achilles.
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