As One Of The Founding Figures Of Impressionism, Camille Pissarro Exerted Considerable Influence Over The Movement's Other Members, Such As Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, And Mary Cassatt. This Publication Focuses On Pissarro's...

In this second of two volumes, Bower, a forensic paper historian whose work on Turner's papers has been exhibited at the Tate Gallery, relates the importance of the surface upon which Turner's watercolors were painted, and explains the ways that Turner...

An exploration of the interaction of aesthetics and politics in Bertolt Brecht's “photoepigrams.”From 1938 to 1955, Bertolt Brecht created montages of images and text, filling his working journal (Arbeitsjournal) and his idiosyncratic atlas of images,...

The book examines how increasing engagement with the rest of the world transformed European art, architecture and design. It considers how commercial activity and colonial ventures gave rise to new and diverse forms of visual and material culture across...

This lavishly illustrated volume of essays introduces a fascinating array of subjects, each exploring an aspect of the far-reaching “mercantile effect” and its impact across western Asia in the early modern era. In the seventeenth and eighteenth...

Gavin Bridson And Geoffrey Wakeman. Includes Indexes.

Walter Crane (1845-1915) was one of the most important, versatile, and radical artists of the 19th century: a painter, decorator, designer, book illustrator, poet, author, teacher, art theorist, and socialist. Crane's astonishingly diverse body of work...

The last great master of the Renaissance, El Greco, holds a singular place in the history of art. His work is still viewed today with the eye of modernity, seducing a wide audience of lovers of ancient and contemporary art Published to accompany the...

Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times' Dwight Garner. Winner of the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award.“The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows...

An illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theoryOne of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory today, James Sloss Ackerman is best known for his work on Italian...

This groundbreaking study explores the visual representations of Black culture across the globe throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.The African diaspora—a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism—has...

An experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity.Melancholy Wedgwood traces the multiple strands in the life of the ceramic...

A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernismBeginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become legendary...

A new study of Mary Cassatt that explores the centrality of work to both her inventive technical practice and her distinctive approach to modern subjectsMary Cassatt’s (1844–1926) sensitive depictions of the social, intellectual, and professional lives...

A richly illustrated account of the life and work of the twentieth-century Mexican artist and writer who reimagined what the book could look like, mean, and doUlises Carrión (1941–1989) was one of the most remarkable artists and writers of the second...

A major reassessment of the methods and meaning of impressionismAt pivotal moments in his career, Claude Monet would go out with a fellow artist, plant his easel beside his friend’s, and paint the same scene. Painting with Monet closely examines pairs of...

A new account of the renowned Baroque painter, revealing how her astute professional decisions shaped her career, style, and legacyArt has long been viewed as a calling—a quasi-religious vocation that drives artists to seek answers to humanity’s deepest...

A box of beautifully designed foldout posters featuring acclaimed artist Jenny Holzer’s celebrated TruismsHolzer-isms: Artist’s Edition presents a selection of artist Jenny Holzer’s Truisms (1977–79)—subtly subversive declarations such as ABUSE OF POWER...

A powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural futureArt museums have played a vital role in our culture, drawing on Enlightenment ideals in shaping...