A richly illustrated catalog exploring the cultural significance and role of automobiles in interwar France.Heavily illustrated, this catalog explores the role of the automobile as both object and subject in interwar France, a period of exceptional...

1995 The exhibition catalogue, featuring the acclaimed painter/sculptor's renditions of the female body.

In 2014, the Metropolitan Museum presented Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age, an unprecedented exhibition that offered a comprehensive overview of art, diplomacy, and cultural exchange in the ancient Near East and across the...

Though much attention has been given to the connection between modern art and primitive African forms, the impact of Pre-Columbian sources on contemporary artists has been left largely unexplored. This study aims to correct that oversight by examining...

Since 1945 the modern revolution in sculpture has gathered pace, and sculpture has now ceased to be the fixed category it once was. In recent decades the modernist idea of sculpture across the UK, America, and Europe, has been challenged, and issues such...

:Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1988. Stated First Printing, 402 pp. In VG condition, no marks or writing, very clean interior, minor shelf wear to softcover, slight bend. Exhibit catalog. Profusely illus in color. Covers portraiture,...

In Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction, Jaleh Mansoor provides a counternarrative of modernism and abstraction and a reexamination of Marxist aesthetics. Mansoor draws on Marx's concept of prostitution--a conceptual device through which Marx...

The first museum survey for artist, writer and publisher Kandis Williams, whose cross-disciplinary practice delineates issues surrounding race, nationalism and authorityAmerican artist Kandis Williams works across collage, sculpture, film, performance,...

A central figure of the New York art scene of the 1960s and '70s, Castoro experimented in painting, sculpture and performance: subversive even for her timeAs a self-titled "paintersculptor," Rosemarie Castoro (1939-2015) had a singular take on Minimal...

This in-depth exploration of Anselm Kiefer's career illustrates how his depictions of women reinforce and challenge the artist's traditional themes of identity, memory, and the interplay between history and mythology.While Kiefer is rarely associated...

The search for “the face of the era”: how typology influenced art of the Weimar Republic and beyondIn Weimar Germany, portraits by New Objectivity artists such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Jeanne Mammen and Hanna Nagel were a testimony to the fascination...

This volume represents an important tool for getting to know every aspect of Leonardo da Vinci's work: his pictorial technique, his scientific and technological investigation, his study on anatomy, his Codices, and every suggestion produced by his genius...

This illustrated version of the popular Passover song "Had gadya" (חד גידא) was the wonderfully playful offspring of the avant-garde artist El Lissitzky (1890-1941). It dates to a little-known period early in his career when he immersed himself...

Now available again in an expanded edition and featuring a variety of work from artists both well-known and under the radar, this volume explores the pioneering achievements of the Feminist Avantgarde. Historically, women have been depicted as a...

Paul Gauguin's legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention, to celebrate the beauty of an indigenous people and...

This highly anticipated, definitive publication documenting Robert Motherwell’s 1,413 known drawings is an essential resource for artists, scholars, collectors, and aficionadosChosen by Brooklyn Rail as one of the “Ten Best Art Books of 2022”The drawings...