"Robert Indiana's paintings are quintessential pop art. His fascination with letters and numbers, billboards, and other vernacular signage has resulted in some of the most iconic images in modern...

This beautifully illustrated book features works made by artist Sam Francis in the years 1953 to 1959, including the Basel Murals. Essays by art historians William C. Agee and Robert Pincus-Witten on...

"In this urgent essay, artist and activist Ai Weiwei draws on his firsthand experience with oppression to examine how censorship has evolved into a global force driven by both political agendas and...

Back in print for the first time in nearly thirty years, here is Yoko Ono's whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life. "Burn this book after you've read...

The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical...

More than a truly brilliant graphic designer, Otl Aicher was a transformative thinker, photographer, typographer, ecologist, philosopher, co-founder and mentor of the renowned Hochschule fuer...

An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth centuryEating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity,...

From the acclaimed author of Michelangelo, God’s Architect, a dual biography of two towering artists of the Renaissance, whose decades-long rivalry spurred both to greater heights In 1529,...

A richly illustrated exploration of how ancient Egyptian art stirred Rodin’s imagination and inspired his sculpture Celebrated as one of the fathers of modern European sculpture, Auguste Rodin...

The remarkable history of forged and fabricated Islamic ceramics, their makers, and their unique role in colonial trade In the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the twentieth...

Sculptor Auguste Rodin was fortunate to have his secretary Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most sensitive poets of our time. These two pieces discussing Rodin's work and development as an artist are...

Violeta Parra: By The Whim of the Wind is a biography about Chile's legendary musician and artist who championed her nation's rustic customs, songs and dances against a current of modernization. She...

"Luna's analysis of Jorge González Camarena - which relies heavily on artist's transcriptions and statements - attempts to place his importance in Mexican art beyond his most significant - or at...

A concise presentation of the authentic teachings of Jesus, combined with images from early Christian art, offer a portrait of Jesus as a revolutionary teacher, healer, and leader

This book analyzes the mentality that required the invention of history to commemorate the achievements of aristocrats at the dawn of the Roman Empire. By investigating classical literary sources as...

A comprehensive study of the lives of Roman women as revealed in Roman art. It concentrates on the evidence provided by portraits, reliefs, wall-paintings, architecture and decorative arts. The...

"Rome, described by Byron as the City of the Soul, has always inspired fervid imaginings and visionary renderings of itself and its past. It has existed not only as an intensely physical place but...