An extraordinary, unconventional reevaluation of postwar art through the lens of deliriumAddressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within...

Themes of mortality and spirituality in the long-neglected art of a midcentury American pioneer“Bloom’s unsettling paintings are fueled by a sense of existence as a state of spiritual emergency and of art as a means for transfiguring fear.” –Holland...

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne that opens on 17th December 2021 and closes on 24th April 2022 This catalog for the 5th Art Brut Biennial at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne highlights the...

The theatre is the central theme of this fourth volume in our series titled 'Art Brut - The Collection', published to coincide with the fourth Art Brut Biennale. After exploring architecture, vehicles, and bodies, attention turns to the theatre, a theme...

Born into slavery around 1853-4 on a cotton plantation in Benton, Alabama, Traylor has become one of the most important self-taught artists of the twentieth century, and certainly one of the most celebrated African-American artists, along with Thorton...

Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesNovelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc...

The Tate Gallery opened in 1897 and came into being as a result of growing recognition of an urgent need for a national gallery of British art. In 1889 the initiative was taken by Henry Tate, a collector of British art whose fortune was made from...

Surveys contemporary painting, sculpture, and photography and discusses SoHo, art and politics, process and conceptual art, earth sculptures, super realism, and pattern painting

In The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages in the process of "rememory"—the recovery of facts and...

Why do people choose the life of an artist, and what happens when they find themselves barely scraping by? Why does New York City, even in an era of hypergentrification, still beckon to aspiring artists as a place to make art and remake yourself?Art...

A celebration of twentieth-century art analyzes the cultural interconnections among more than one hundred examples of modern painting, literature, sculpture, music, and photography