This comprehensive volume reproduces in loving detail all of Delvoye's preliminary drawings for his infamous Cloaca project--in which a giant machine replicates the human digestive system by "eating" twice a day, digesting and eliminating.

Feng Zhengjie, whose work appears on the cover of 2005's China: The New Contemporary Painting, represents international trends toward borrowing and riffing on bygone styles--and the return to painterly technique--as much as he does his country's blooming...

Pathmarks catalogues some of the more radical art movements of the second half of the twentieth century, including CO.BR.A, Lettrism, Fluxus, Mail Art, Neoism and Art Brut. As such, it provides an exciting introduction to the remoter byways of art...

An insightful study of the progressive politics animating a great work of modernist mural paintingIn 1936 the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project commissioned Stuart Davis (1892–1964) to paint a mural for the Williamsburg Houses, a New...

"Bloomsbury on the Mediterranean," is how Vanessa Bell described France in a letter to her sister, Virginia Woolf. Remarking on the vivifying effect of Cassis, Woolf herself said, "I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim.... Complete...

This reference monograph gives a complete overview of Scurtis emblematic works to date. Scurtis oeuvre explores the socio-economic determinism of the individual while promoting an aesthetic valorization of everyday objects and devaluation of traditional...

Tom Blackwell's emotionally and visually provocative work is brought together in this beautiful collection, beginning from 1970 to his most recent worksThis compilation documents his creative process, with his vivid motorcycle paintings offering an...

This volume of essays was generated by the Taiwan 2002 Conference on the History of Painting in East Asia convened October 4-7, 2002, at National Taiwan University, Taipei. The objectives of this conference were threefold. The first was to honor the...

In the eleventh century, the focus of Chinese painting shifted dramatically. The subject matter of most earlier works of art was drawn from a broadly shared heritage of political, religious, and literary themes. Late in the century, however, a group of...

The fabulous life and times of one of our wittiest, most endearing and enduring caricaturists—in his own words and inimitable art. Sorel has given us "some of the best pictorial satire of our time ... [his] pen can slash as well as any sword” (The...

A beautiful catalog of the exhibition shown at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and at Japan House Gallery, New York, in 1980-81. Fully illustrated with 50 color/black & white plates and 54 black & white figures. Printed in Japan.

Text: English (translation)Original Language: German

Book by Ford, Barbara Brennan and Oliver Impey

Hardback with DJ. 4to. 218pp. 183 illustrations, 63 in color. [An Exhibition from the Shanghai Museum]. Not Inscribed or Signed by Editor.

This extraordinary book features significant works of art from the Kobe City Museum, whose collection focuses on Western-style Japanese art created between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Japan Envisions the West considers how Japan encountered...