Art
JOAN MITCHELL
Written by Siegel, Katy
This sweeping retrospective explores the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond Abstract Expressionism as well as the transatlantic contexts that shaped her.
STRICT BEAUTY: SOL LEWITT PRINTS
Written by Areford, David S
This revelatory study sheds new light on Sol LeWitt's printmaking, an essential but overlooked facet of his conceptual practice.
MOROZOV: THE STORY OF A FAMILY AND A LOST COLLECTION
Written by Semenova, Natalya
Ivan Morozov was one of the most discerning collectors of his age, spending 1.5 million francs on works by artists including Monet and Cezanne. In the first authoritative biography of Morozov, Natalya Semenova sheds light on his life, family, and achievements--and on European and Russian art at the turn of the century.
ART AND FAITH: A THEOLOGY OF MAKING
Written by Fujimura, Makoto
This book is Makoto Fujimura's broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of "making." Beautiful and poignant, it offers the perspective of, in Christian Wiman's words, "an accidental theologian," one who comes to spiritual questions always through the prism of art.
PLACE OF MANY MOODS: UDAIPUR'S PAINTED LANDS AND INDIA'S EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Written by Khera, Dipti
A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of the era In the long eighteenth century, artists from Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, specialized in depicting the vivid sensory ambience of its historic palaces, reservoirs, temples, bazaars, and durbars.
BRAVURA: VIRTUOSITY AND AMBITION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN PAINTING
Written by Suthor, Nicola
The first major history of the bravura movement in European painting The painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth century.
PIRANESI UNBOUND
Written by Minor, Heather Hyde
Why Piranesi's greatest works weren't his famous prints but rather the books for which he made them A draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) is best known today as the virtuoso etcher of the immersive and captivating Views of Rome and the darkly inventive Imaginary Prisons.
WATERMARKS: LEONARDO DA VINCI AND THE MASTERY OF NATURE
Written by Geddes, Leslie A
Leonardo's enduring fascination with water--from its artistic representation to aquatic inventions and hydraulic engineering Formless, mutable, transparent: the element of water posed major challenges for the visual artists of the Renaissance.
BRUTAL AESTHETICS: DUBUFFET, BATAILLE, JORN, PAOLOZZI, OLDENBURG
Written by Foster, Hal
How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb.
HARING-ISMS
Written by Haring, Keith
Essential quotations from renowned artist and pop icon Keith Haring Keith Haring remains one of the most important and celebrated artists of his generation and beyond.
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