Critical texts that span almost fifty years, mapping Haacke's progression from engagement with biological systems to interrogation of the social and economic underpinnings of art.For five decades,...

A tribute to 33 women who merged science and spirituality to healing ends, as commemorated through Kiefer's monumental painting series Published with Palazzo Reale. This volume examines the gestation...

A short and pithy introduction to the most important feminist artworks from the late 1960s to the present. Emerging in the late 1960s as women artists struggled to "de-gender" their work to compete...

Gerhard Richter is one of the most famous painters of our time. Worldwide. His fascinating visual spheres are characterized by a unique originality and quality, in which the abstract and the figural...

- A series of masterpieces of painting from famous masters of two Chinese dynasties, presented in the traditional format of a handscroll - Includes important postscripts and observations of the works...

- Part of a series of 10 paintings from the last five dynasties of ancient China - presented in the traditional format of a handscrollThe series of Collection of Ancient Calligraphy and Painting...

Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative art critic of his generation, Hilton Kramer advanced his comments and judgments largely in the form of essays and short pieces. Thus this first...

Developed during the mid-19th century in China, the bapo (or "eight brokens") painting genre combines ingeniously realistic depictions of antique documents, such as calligraphies, rubbings, paintings...

"A major new history of how, between 1965 and 1985, African nations sought the restitution of works of art stolen during the colonial period, written by the most important and influential figure in...