An expansive survey of video, installation and more from Arthur Jafa, whose practice is "a counterpunch to anyone who wants to put people of color in their place" (Wes Hill)Published with LUMA Arles. Over several decades, American filmmaker and artist...

"Cosimo de'Medici (1389-1464), the fabulously wealthy banker who became the leading citizen of Florence in the fifteenth century, spent lavishly as the city's most important patron of art and literature. This book is the first comprehensive examination...

Dada is often celebrated for its strategies of shock and opposition, but in Dada Presentism, Maria Stavrinaki provides a new picture of Dada art and writings as a lucid reflection on history and the role of art within it. The original (Berlin-based)...

Art History

A compact and amply illustrated guide to the prodigious artist, activist and dissidentEmerging from a tumultuous background of political and cultural critique, Ai Weiwei (born 1957) uses a diverse range of mediums--including sculpture, photography, film...

In After Caliban, Erica Moiah James examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean. She draws on Aimé Césaire's rewriting of Shakespeare's The Tempest, in which Caliban...

"John Varriano's book is not only a delightful read but draws fascinating parallels between two hitherto disparate fields: art history and the history of food in the Renaissance. Outstanding scholarship that opens whole new venues of inquiry."—Ken...

Distinguished by a touch of surrealism, Larraz's political and personal caricatures satirize his life in Cuba and the United States, and the people who govern himCuban artist Julio Larraz (born 1944) began making caricatures as a child and continued in...

A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and filmLike Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms...

204 illustrations in full color. 142 B/W illustrations. 507p. Covers 8 landmark Impressionist shows. Contributors include Stéphane Mallarmé, Richard Shiff, Paul Tucker, Richard R. Bretetell and others. Accompanied exhibition at exhibit at the National...