This is the twelfth volume of the AW Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, which are delivered annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The volumes of the lectures constitute number xxxv in...

The first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships to race, identity, and art.   What is Black art? No one has thought harder about that...

Unveiling a rich chapter in modern and contemporary art history, where the shop window becomes a stage and consumerism transforms into artSince the late 19th century, the shop window has shaped the...

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished...

A comprehensive catalogue of Sargent's charcoal portraits, capturing high society, professions, and the arts in an era of profound transformation In comparison with his portraits in oil, John Singer...

A celebration of one of Japan's most talented, prolific, and popular artists Over a career spanning four decades, the prolific Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) produced thousands of landscape and...

- The only book available sampling the finest selection of Jun wares from renowned collections and museums around the world- Highly educational articles with unique scholar's research findings and...

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chains--art included. In this major contribution to the study of contemporary culture and supply chains, Michael Shane Boyle has assembled a...

Any tattoo is the outcome of an intimate, often hidden process. The people, bodies, and money that make tattooing what it is blend together and form a heady cocktail, something described by Matt, the...

The Egyptian art world is the oldest and largest in the Arab Middle East. Its artists must reckon with the histories of ancient Egypt, European modernism, anti-colonial nationalism, and state...

The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia―such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology. As we become...

Although Jim Jarmusch is best known for his storied career in independent cinema, over the years he has produced hundreds of pieces of collage art, the majority of which has been rarely seen by the...

Patrons and collectors Barbara and James Palmer have long played a vital role in the museum that bears their name. A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer...

The first survey of sculptures and installations by sound-art pioneer Bill FontanaSince the 1960s, American composer and media artist Bill Fontana (born 1947) has been using thenatural environment as...