Art
OLD AGE IN GREEK AND ROMAN ART
Written by Pollitt, J J
A comprehensive look at ancient sculptures, wall paintings, vases, and more depicting the elderly in Greek and Roman society Some of the most vivid portraits in ancient art depict older members of society.
SUSSEX LANDSCAPE: CHALK, WOOD AND WATER
Written by Martin, Simon
A beautifully illustrated look at how the Sussex landscape has inspired creativity across the centuries, reassessing the rich artistic lives and work of British artists and writers connected with the area Sussex is a county defined by its iconic chalk-cliff coastline and the rolling expanse of the South Downs to the North.
PERCEPTUAL DRIFT: BLACK ART AND AN ETHICS OF LOOKING
Written by Lee, Key Jo
A powerful reframing of the study of Black art and the historical and contemporary status of Black lives Perceptual Drift offers a new interpretive model drawing on four key works of Black art in the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection.
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM: MASTERWORKS FROM THE COLLECTION
A handsome coffee table guide to the celebrated collection of the Kimbell Art Museum In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, this deluxe volume showcases its world-renowned collection.
RODIN IN THE UNITED STATES: CONFRONTING THE MODERN
A compelling examination of French sculptor Auguste Rodin from the perspective of his enthusiastic American audience This exhibition catalogue explores the American reception of French artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), from 1893, when his first work entered a US museum, to the present.
PORTALS: THE VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE OF PAUL GOESCH
Written by Koenig, Raphael
The first monographic publication in English on German Expressionist artist and architect Paul Goesch, who long struggled with--and was persecuted and ultimately murdered for--his schizophrenia Paul Goesch (1885-1940) produced one of the most inventive, peculiar, and poignant bodies of work to emerge from Weimar Germany.
NEW HISTORY OF WESTERN ART: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT DAY
Written by Jonckheere, Koenraad
A radical re-examination of 2,500 years of European art, deconstructing and demystifying its long history from ancient to present How has art evolved from the pursuit of the 'ideal' human form to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a banana duct-taped to a wall worth more on the art market than a beautiful seventeenth-century landscape?
NEAR EAST TO FAR WEST: FICTIONS OF FRENCH AND AMERICAN COLONIALISM
Written by Henneman, Jennifer R
A new look at French Orientalism's influence on the art of the American West, showing how aesthetics and ideology jointly informed approaches to colonialism and expansion during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both France and the United States From the 1830s to the 1920s, American artists such as Alfred Jacob Miller, George de Forest Brush, Joseph H.
BAMIGBOYE: A MASTER SCULPTOR OF THE YORUBA TRADITION
Written by Green, James
The first publication on the Yorùbá master sculptor Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè Bámigbóyè A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition is the first monograph dedicated to the 50-year career of the Nigerian artist Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè (ca. 1885-1975).
DIDIER VERMEIREN: DOUBLE EXPOSITION
Written by Gauthier, Michel
Marking the occasion of Didier Vermeiren's eponymous solo exhibition at WIELS in Brussels, this book illuminates the recurrent strategies of repetition, reversal, doubling and inversion that the artist explores in his work Published to mark the occasion of Didier Vermeiren's (b.
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