85 results for '"BARNETT"'

In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination...

A Caldecott Honor Book Four starred reviews! “Both gloriously expansive and goofy—in short, everything young readers could ask for.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A hilarious and...

In 1946 the art critic Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker, first used the term 'Abstract Expressionism'. The two words combine the emotional intensity of the German Expressionists with the...

In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Rancière continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does art render events that have spanned an era? What...

Abstract Expressionism was the dominant movement in experimental American painting from the 1940s through the early 1960s. This book is a collection of articles, reviews, and essays that chronicle...

Tracing a remarkably varied career, this monograph on the painter David Diao follows his stylistic evolution--from abstraction to genre-defying and candid self-exploration. This book accompanies the...

"Hugely entertaining." –Mac Barnett for The New York Times Does something exist even if you can’t see it? A humorous bedtime story for budding philosophers.“There's a rhinoceros in my room!” Ludwig...

A dynamic tale of art and friendship, set between the World Wars, against the backdrop of a rapidly changing worldEric Ravilious is one of the best-known twentieth-century English artists. For many,...

This book gives new insights into the flowering of radical abstraction after 1945, focussing on the creative interplay between painters in the wider orbit of Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel...

"Milton Resnick: Painter in the Age of Painting is the first biography to explore Resnick's life and work, and his place among the New York City artists who became known as the abstract...

This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life—the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. Jacqueline Goldsby shows...

Conceived as a series of journeys akin to those of saints or shamans,Negotiating Rapture brings together the work of Francis Bacon,Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Lucio Fontana, Shirazeh Houshiary,...

"It begs to be sung aloud. And will make you a better person. Completely beyond good and evil!" — Jon Scieszka, first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.A perfect laugh-out-loud,...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller. Now, he’s back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a...

"Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone meets The Goonies in The Treasure Hunters Club-a rollicking murder mystery set in a seaside town filled with pirate lore, family secrets, unforgiveable...

2025 EDGAR NOMINEE FOR THE LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN MEMORIAL AWARD! Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone meets The Goonies in The Treasure Hunters Club--a rollicking murder mystery set in a seaside...

James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee • Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists • Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, the Society for the Study of Social...

An accessible, concise, and beautifully written survey of American art and architecture from 1600 to the present. This new survey provides a complete history of American art and architecture from its...

Mark C. Taylor explores the many variations of silence by considering the work of leading visual artists, philosophers, theologians, writers, and composers. “To hear silence is to find stillness in...

James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee • Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists • Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, the Society for the Study of Social...