Af Klint's exquisitely rendered botanical portfolio reveals a deep spiritual engagement with the flora of her native SwedenAcross the spring and summer seasons of 1919 and 1920, Swedish artist Hilma...

"Lo straniero" è una rivista mensile nata a Roma nel 1997 fondata da Goffredo Fofi con un nutrito gruppo di collaboratori: da Gustaw Herling e Anna Maria Ortese a Carmelo Bene, da Stefano Benni a...

Moody, haunting and almost abstract, Hugo's drawings are a testament to his imagination and a touchstone for Romantics, Symbolists and Surrealists alikeNovelist, poet and politician Victor Hugo was a...

Conversations that explore the work, life and practices of a legendary painterBritish painter David Hockney (born 1937) is one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. In...

In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism...

Important new publication brings together a selection of forty significant works by American Abstract Expressionist artist Grace Hartigan.Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention explores the...

Bronze vessels were the ultimate emblems of power in ancient China. Beginning in the twelfth century, the rediscovery of ancient bronzes as evidence of an earlier golden age led to a revival of...

In 1874, eighteen-year-old American artist John Singer Sargent went to Paris to become a painter. Ten years later, he would become an art-world sensation when he sparked controversy with his...

An award-winning artist who was featured in Humans of New York, conveys his life experience in a bold collection of essays addressing family trauma, addiction, poverty--and how a passion to create...

Monstrous Beauty presents a bold cross-cultural history of porcelain told through a feminist lens. Prized for its delicate quality and whiteness, porcelain was first imported to Europe from China in...

"Renowned New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss loved his sweet dog Penny, a joyful part of his life for 17 years. Every day that he cared for his beloved pet, Harry joked with her, talked to her, and...

Filled with brilliant reproductions and engaging texts reflecting latest scholarship, this portable and attractively priced volume is the perfect introduction to the enigmatic and visionary Spanish...

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty--from a...

Okwui Enwezor's 2016 exhibition Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965 redefined the history of art produced in those two decades. Nearly a decade later, Postwar Revisited...

The Fertile Crescent examines the work of 24 women artists of Middle East heritage: Negar Ahkami (Iranian), Shiva Ahmadi (Iranian), Jananne Al-Ani (Iraqi), Fatima and Monira Al Qadiri (Kuwaiti),...

A collection of paintings and drawings produced by Vincent van Gogh while living in the South of France is accompanied by discussions of this period of his life and work

Explores Wayne Thiebaud's career as a self-described "thief" who appropriated and reinterpreted old and new European and American artworks.  Although artist Wayne Thiebaud (1920–2021) earned acclaim...

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Vermeer makes the world’s greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. A 17th-century Dutch painter who lived his entire life...

On the life and works of Krishen Khanna, b. 1925, Indian painter; includes reproduction of selected paintings.

Introduces the art of miniature painting as practiced by the artists who illustrated books for the Mogul court, and shows how their paintings of rulers, nature, clothing, their work, and other...