A fresh introduction to the life and art of the sixteenth-century Italian painter.Impossible Nature offers a reassessment of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the Lombard painter whose fantastical composite heads...

A landmark artist biography that takes us behind the Ben-Day dots and into the invention of Pop When Roy Lichtenstein painted his breakthrough canvas Look Mickey in 1961―an image of Donald Duck and...

"A celebrated scholar's profound examination of sculpture, making, and the nature of humanity. What is sculpture? In this elegant volume, Anne Middleton Wagner delves into that essential question,...

Michelangelo was a genius of unrivaled virtuosity. This dependable edition traces the extraordinary depth and breadth of his work and his ascent to the elite of the Renaissance and art history with...

The artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is remembered as the creator of powerful works expressing a vibrant and unflinching second-wave feminist sensibility. In Radical Virtuosity, art historian...

A magisterial collection of essays on what art tells us about ourselves, and the worldThe Sense of Sight is about our deeply political and human engagement with the visual world. Berger encourages us...

John Berger's intimate meditations on what is past, passing, and to come Beginning each essay with an image, Keeping a Rendezvous examines the nature of the artistic encounter. Berger delves into...

The Booker Prize winner's poignant debut novel, a meditation on the interplay between art, exile and politics Exiled with his wife in 1950s London, Hungarian artist Janos Lavin struggles to find...

I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be: a rip-roaring, kaleidoscopic deep dive into the mythos and songs of the Grateful Dead, with over one hundred vibrant, original paintings. "A wildly original,...

A fascinating look at the role of printmaking in the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat The “Blue Ribbon paintings” represent a pivotal moment in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s career. Created in 1984 during a...

"The Academy of the Sword centers on an assemblage of rare illustrated books devoted to the subject of fencing and dueling, drawn (with one exception) from the library of the Arms and Armor...

"Critical interpretation meets personal essay in this groundbreaking assessment of Donald Judd's sculptural work. The Sculpture of Donald Judd is the first chronological study of the artist's...

A look at three masters of Japanese landscape prints from one of the world’s best collections of the genre In the 1830s, a new type of color woodblock print caused a sensation in the world of...

"A groundbreaking cultural history of calamitous teacher-student relationships at the heart of nineteenth-century French painting and efforts to fix them The suicides of painters Léopold Robert and...