From the distinguished art critic and historian, vital essays on key artists and critics, revealing how they redefined art and criticism over the last six decades.“Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present,” Hal Foster...

A celebration of bookselling in paintings and with independent voices.The Art of the Bookstore is romantic, poetic, charismatic, and enduring, and independent booksellers around the world thrive on creating this unique culture and ambiance. In this...

Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have a worldwide influence, Abstract Expressionism denotes the non-representational use of paint as a means of personal expression. It emerged in America in the 1940s, with lead protagonists including...

Covering the art of the Middle Byzantine period (843-1261 AD), this book demonstrates its wide diversity and influence through 17 scholarly essays. These are accompanied by descriptions and colour reproductions of over 400 objects, as well as pictures of...

This massive catalogue features fine reproductions and extensive individual discussions of nearly 120 canvases dating from the colonial period to the 1980s. With 268 illustrations, 243 in color.

A groundbreaking reassessment of Picasso by one of today's preeminent art historiansPicasso and Truth offers a breathtaking and original new look at the most significant artist of the modern era. From Pablo Picasso's early The Blue Room to the later...

A new, affordable edition of French Marxist and proto-Situationist Henri Lefebvre’s classic text on the everyday, illustrated by Julie MehretuThe work of French Marxist sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre radically transformed the discourse of...

New paintings from Wiley that examine how nature is depicted and symbolized in Japanese artThis striking volume presents a new body of work by American painter Kehinde Wiley, who is best known for his vibrant portraiture of Black people that subverts the...

The first comprehensive book about Michael Stewart, the young Black artist and model who was the victim of a fatal assault by police in 1983, from Elon Green, the Edgar Award-winning author of Last Call.At twenty-five years old, Michael Stewart was a...

A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious, and politically urgent.A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative and artistically ambitious, In the Black...

Discover the surreal humor and cyber futurism of Cao Fei's visionary artCao Fei is one of the most innovative artists to have emerged on the international stage, known for work that charts the breakneck urbanization, environmental changes, and social...

A hilarious celebration of cats in artwork from medieval times.Look what the cat dragged in from the Middle Ages—a curious compendium of cats unlike any you’ve ever lapped up before.For more than a millennium, a myriad of medieval manuscripts and...