Fascinating compare-and-contrast examination of Eduardo Paolozzi and Andy Warhol and their fascination with the machine in their art. A great introduction to the work of both artists Beautifully illustrated Particularly concentrates on the artists'...

A New American Sculpture, 1914–1945 is the first publication to situate the individual contributions of Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach into a compelling constellation of artists with shared aesthetic and social...

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...

Jasper Johns (b. 1930), one of today's most acclaimed and influential artists, is rarely considered in relation to monochromatic art. Yet single-colour experimentations have figured prominently in his productions since 1955, and within that significant...

Warriors were a given in the tombs of the Chinese, keeping watch in the afterlife just as the individuals and battalions they were modelled after kept watch over state and empire. Armies and cavalries common in the tombs of the Han nobility, however,...