A timely reassessment of some of the most daring projects of abstraction from South America.Emphasizing the open-ended and self-critical nature of the projects of abstraction in South America from the 1930s through the mid-1960s, this important new...

Dancers, friends, exiles, saints, devils, childhood memories, sex, love and death are the characters that take center stage every night at around 3 A.M. An intimate collection of drawings by the artist and the writings of some of his best poet friends...

An affordable, compact primer on the artist who drastically shifted the course of late 20th-century artThis reader provides a concise introduction to the widely popular yet oft-misunderstood artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Guided by the steady hand of...

How form shapes function: a fascinating romp through the ins and outs of book design This volume gathers a collection of 50 texts on book design written by designers Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of Berlin-based graphic and type design studio...

Performers, barbacks, doormen and DJs reminisce on the East Village club that galvanized New York’s alternative sceneWhat Studio 54 was for disco, the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge was for the alternative scene of 1980s downtown New York. Located at 101 Avenue...

The long-awaited monograph on Barkley L. Hendricks’ powerful portraits of contemporary Black subjectsBarkley L. Hendricks is rightly known as one of the foremost American painters of the late 20th century. His six-decade artistic oeuvre encompasses not...

Black figuration and portraiture as realized in the works of Amy Sherald, Jordan Casteel and other contemporary artists“There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now,”...

An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintingThe Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle...

A concise and compelling narrative, well illustrated. Distributed by Woodstocker Books.

René-yvon Lefebvre D'argencé, Editor In Charge ; Diana Turner, Editor ; With Contributions By Fred A. Cline ... [et Al.] And Alexander C. Soper. Includes Index. The Avery Brundage Collection. Asian Art Museum Of San Francisco. Bibliography: P. 443-452.

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Surveys the pottery, sculpture, masks, textiles, beadwork baskets, and paintings produced by North American Indians

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The supreme art form of ancient China was the bronze ritual vessel. Kings and nobles offered food and drink to their ancestors in spectacular cast bronze containers which served to advertise the owner's wealth and power no less than his piety. Many of...

The bronze ritual vessel, the defining artifact of early Chinese civilization, is the subject of this monumental study of Shang ritual bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. A comprehensive introduction, the most thorough treatment of Shang...

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