This richly illustrated book focuses on an unusually and rarely elucidated subject in the world of Islamic art: human depictions. Through seventy-five important works of Islamic art from the David...

Reckoning with exile: Beckmann as chronicler of the dispossessedAssociated with, but not reducible to, both German Expressionism and New Objectivity, German painter Max Beckmann (1884–1950) developed...

Warhol's iconic portrayal of the Factory scene and '60s New YorkAndy Warhol's 1966 movie The Chelsea Girls is the iconic document of the Factory scene and 1960s New York. Filmed in part at the...

In 1988, Gerhard Richter created one of the most controversial and fascinating political painting-cycles of all time, with his Baader-Meinhof series. In 2002, he returned to the theme of media and...

Texts and words are of crucial importance to Annette Messager's work--for her, "words are images." And so words--at once autonomous from, parallel to, and the sources of her visual creativity--are...

In the revolutionary fervor of 1968, activists beat a path to London's Poster WorkshopFrom 1968 to 1971, anyone could drop in to the basement in Camden Town, London, and commission a poster from the...

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The idea of utopia, the perfect place, has tantalized humanity for thousands of years, from the myth of the Garden of Eden to the high-tech folly of Biosphere 2. Now the Bibliotheque Nationale de...

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"A wave of new scholarship floods her text….Chadwick opens up whole new ways of thinking about familiar images."―Women's Art Journal This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women...

"In 1906 tribal sculpture was ""discovered"" by 20th century artists; these objects had suddenly become relevant because of changes in the nature of modern art itself. These two volumes comprise the...

I hope this book will inspire every reader to stop and consider things that are...so clearly meaningless that they never seemed worth a second thought.... Grass, the night sky, a postage stamp, a...

An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her convertible trying to escape her queer shame. A suave...

This exhibition catalog brings together key works by Russian conceptualists Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov, whose art depicted the absurdities of everyday life in the Soviet era. It not only...

Established in 1882 but with a collecting history dating back to the 1750s, the Princeton University Art Museum is one of the leading research museums in the country. Its encyclopedic collections...

Testi di Francesca Salvadori.Introduzione di David Bindman.Milano, 2003; cartonato, pp. 240, 280 ill. b/n, cm 29x29.(Arte e cultura). Il volume riunisce e riproduce per la prima volta il corpus delle...

Exploring the intersections among art, architecture, and urbanism in Brazil from the 1920s through the 1960s, Adrian Anagnost shows how modernity was manifested in locally specific spatial forms...

Am 27. April 1973 gründete Joseph Beuys gemeinsam mit dem Grafiker Klaus Staeck, dem Maler Georg Meistermann und dem Journalisten Willi Bongard in seinem Düsseldorfer Atelier die Free International...

This book accompanies a comprehensive retrospective based on around 200 photographs by Nicholas Nixon (b. 1947 in Detroit), who has produced one of the most powerful and personal photographic oeuvres...

This wide-ranging and definitive volume illustrates how Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking practice influenced 20th- and 21st-century art.This book documents Barbara and Aaron Levine's extraordinary...