A rich, penetrating memoir about the author's relationship with a flawed but influential figure—the painter Lucian Freud—and the satisfactions and struggles of a life lived through art.One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has...

"After 1945 our plutocrats, bureaucrats, board chairmen, CEOs, commissioners, and college presidents undergo an inexplicable change. They become diffident and reticent. All at once they are willingto accept that glass of ice water in the face, that...

A poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature—everywhere, if you know how to see it.In Black Elegies, Kimberly Juanita Brown examines the form of the elegy and its unique capacity to convey the...

This breathtaking multi-dimensional exploration of Belgium’s most famous artist looks beyond his identity as a painter of masks and reveals a man of—and ahead of—his time.While James Ensor is often celebrated for his depictions of the grotesque imagery...

In celebration of the 250th birthday of the English Romantic painter this opulent edition features stunning, accordion-fold, color reproductions of Turner’s essential works, accompanied by a separate booklet providing descriptions and the background of...

The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a...

The ultimate Who's Who of the contemporary street art scene Completely revised and updated from the 2015 edition "It's a must-have art collection gathering dust on the coffee table, and it's just that." - NY Journal of Books on Street Art Today 1"One of...

-Explores how the Italian avant-garde has changed the history of 20th century art and design -Highlights the cross-pollination between art and design during a fundamental period in the history of Italian art The effervescent, creative synergy among...

• Published for the first time ever, the Lanfranchi Collection is an important testament to the impact of the Spatialism and Nuclear Art movements in post WWII ItalyFollowing WWII in Italy, the art movements Spatialism (founded by Lucio Fontana) and...

•An informative accompaniment to an exhibition of Giorgio Morandi's work at the Museo Novecento, Florence•Focuses on Giorgio's relationships with some of the greatest contemporaneous art criticsThis book, like the exhibition it accompanies, takes as a...

Marking the 700th anniversary of his death, this new publication of Dante's Divine Comedy features 50 original lithographs by Italian artist Mimmo Paladino, and essays by notable Italian scholars and art historiansTo mark the 700th anniversary of the...

Documents an exhibition at the Tornabuoni Art Gallery in Paris (May 20th - July 25th, 2021) with texts by leading art historiansThis catalog for a show at the Tornabuoni Gallery in Paris pays homage to two outstanding Italian women artists of the second...

• A series of 10 masterpieces of calligraphy from famous masters of different Chinese dynasties, presented in the traditional format of a handscrollIn the series Collection of Ancient Calligraphy and Painting Handscrolls: Calligraphy, 10 masterpieces...

• A series of masterpieces of calligraphy from famous masters of two Chinese dynasties, presented in the traditional format of a handscroll• Includes important postscripts and observations of the works from later generationsThe series contains a...

One of the most important collections of medieval ivory carvings and small sculpture, available to the public for the first time.This volume, the second catalog of the Wyvern Collection, celebrates an outstanding group of medieval ivory carvings and...

A connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuumAmerica and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagination of Europe for well over a century after 1492...

An arresting illustrated history of twins in mythology, science, and visual cultureTwins have captivated the imagination for centuries, occupying a unique place in our cultural and scientific history. Twinkind looks at twins in myth and legend; anatomy,...

This book features When This You See..., a 1996-99 series of thirty-one embroidered samplers by contemporary American artist Elaine Reichek. Traditionally, samplers framed truisms, homilies, and lessons within decorative patterns and motifs. Reichek...

Both as an artist and as a theorist, Robert Morris (b. 1931) has challenged prevailing ideas about art and culture. He is best known as the father of Minimal Art. His contributions to virtually every postwar movement since Abstract Expressionism are...

A trailblazing look at the historical emergence of a global field in contemporary art and the diverse ways artists become valued worldwidePrior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of “international” contemporary art was made up almost exclusively of artists...