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

New York Times bestseller Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the Financial Times, the New York Post, Book Riot, and The Sunday Times (London). An “exquisite” (The Washington Post) “hauntingly beautiful” (Associated...

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

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.