Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award“Powered by masterful writing and storytelling, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled is an instant classic that grapples with the essential questions for artists and all societies that profess to be democratic.”...

Shedding fresh light on modern art beyond the West, this text introduces readers to artists, art movements, debates and theoretical positions of the modern era that continue to shape contemporary art worldwide. Area histories of modern art are...

In-depth scholarship on the central artists, movements, and themes of Latin American art, from the Mexican revolution to the present A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art consists of over 30 never-before-published essays on...

Bringing together sixty-five primary documents vital to understanding the history of art in Latin America since 1900, Patrick Frank shows how modern art developed in Latin America in this important new work complementing his previous book,...

Five centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volume The most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists ever published, Great Women Artists reflects an era where art made by...

Discover the motifs, masterpieces, and driving forces behind the artist Pablo Picasso.Picasso was arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades--and included thousands of paintings,...

The book is a graphic chronicle of the creative evolution from figurative to geometric and finally to abstract technique experienced by artist better known as "Boi" (José Carlos Boi Cezar Ferreira, b. Marlia, SP, 1944) throughout a selection of his...

A revised edition of this seminal title, surveying the diverse, ever-evolving field of contemporary African art from the 1950s to today, illustrated in color throughout.Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage...

Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacular,...

René Magritte (1898–1967) was a surrealist artist whose thought-provoking works used ordinary objects to challenge how viewers perceived reality. His extensive oeuvre was documented in a comprehensive five-volume project, led by distinguished art critic...

This book presents postwar drawings and prints donated to the Busch-Reisinger Museum through the German Art Dealers Association.

Interpreting Cezanne explores the style and content of Cezanne's work and analyzes the artist's own comments about painting. Greatly influenced by the landscapes of his native Provence, the Old Masters, and, most importantly, Impressionism, Cezanne had a...

The first book to focus exclusively on Hokusai's landscapes, by one of the world's leading ukiyo-e specialistsThe best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator and print designer throughout his 90-year...

Following an initiative undertaken by the Mus, e du Louvre, in 2006-7 seven great French museums hosted exhibitions that revealed to the public the great wealth of Italian drawings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in French collections.

New expanded 248pp Edition. The single best collection of photography of Banksy's street work that has ever been assembled for print. If that isn't enough there are some words too. You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat covers his entire street art...

Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks...

Offering a fresh look at what's wrong with how Americans fund the arts--and why--this book, based on wide-ranging interviews and massive research, goes beyond identifying the failures of the present system to offer a plan for fixing it.

The rich, revealing, and thrilling story of five women whose lives and painting propelled a revolution in modern art, from the National Book Award finalist. Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is...