Accused by the tabloid press of setting out to 'shock', controversial artworks are vigorously defended by art critics, who frequently downplay their disturbing emotional impact. This is the first book to subject contemporary art to a rigorous ethical...

A major rethinking of twentieth-century abstract art mobilized by the work of Brazilian artist Lygia ClarkWhat would it mean to treat an interval of space as a line, thus drawing an empty void into a constellation of art and meaning-laden things? In this...

A compelling analysis of the work of art historian Aby Warburg and its radical implications for the study of visual imagesAby Warburg (1866–1929) is best known as the originator of the discipline of iconology and as the founder of the institute that...

An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth centuryEating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, in the European and Mediterranean worlds, people have...

An exploration of a crucial turning point in Italian art, the early 1300s in the city of SienaIn the early 1300s, the city of Siena gave rise to an extraordinary period of creativity and innovation. Painters, sculptors, and goldsmiths produced remarkable...

A beautifully illustrated look at how the acclaimed ceramicist draws on the postcolonial experience in her workMagdalene Odundo (b. 1950) is a Kenyan-born British ceramicist whose extraordinary works have been widely celebrated for their beauty and...

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in...

A beautifully illustrated look at the paints and palettes used by many of the world’s greatest artists from the sixteenth century to todayWhat can the palette an artist used or depicted tell us about their artistic process, preferences, and finished...

A beautifully illustrated and designed book of the important Pop artist’s previously unpublished working studiesThis book sheds new light on the fascinating working processes of American Pop artist James Rosenquist. Using the techniques of billboard...

A major new survey of American sculpture, exploring how it both reflects and redefines concepts of race and identity in the United StatesHow does American sculpture intersect with the history of race in the United States? The three-dimensional qualities...

A groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manet’s family to his artAll families are complicated, but the family of Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was more complicated than most. The artist married a piano teacher who worked for his...

A beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to todayWhile the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the...

Amy Sherald's work, life, and significance for American art, as revealed in her powerful figurative paintings of Black subjects "The contemporary painter's defining subjects are everyday Black Americans, the 'sublime' buried subtly, but unmistakably,...

A spectacular study of calligraphy, the most esteemed form of visual and textual expression in the Islamic world, through a storied collection of Qur'an manuscripts Spanning more than a millennium, from the seventh through the nineteenth century, Sea...

Jazz Age Illustration Is An Exhibition Catalogue For The Delaware Art Museum's Deep Collection Of Illustrations For Mass-market Magazines. It Encompasses Work From About 1919 Through 1942, Presenting An Exciting Time In American Illustration When A...

A novel with each cover hand-illustrated by the author. Literary journals bound by magnets, or designed to look like junk mail. The sharp wit, gorgeous design, and playful why not invention of independent literary publisher McSweeney's have earned it a...

A new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada.The artist Francis Picabia—notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist—has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most...

This authoritative and generously illustrated book highlights Gustav Klimt’s portrayals of women in his work. Klimt was a central figure in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, and a crucial link between nineteenth-century Symbolism and Modernism...

This book accompanies a major exhibition devoted to portraits created by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, whose figurative work exhibits intense emotion and technical brilliance. Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth...

A leading art historian’s plea for a more engaged reading of Italian Renaissance artOnly Connect constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves by the spectator, that draw the spectator into...