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| Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, was described in 1604 by his... Although Lewis Mumford is widely acknowledged as the seminal American critic of architecture and urbanism in the twentieth century, he is...
In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique post-utopian vision as she explores the... In this groundbreaking work of incisive scholarship and analysis, Hannah Higgins explores the influential art movement Fluxus. Daring,...
What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman... Performance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by...
This volume is the third in an influential series of anthologies by editors Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard that challenge art history... The essays in this wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume capture the theoretical range and scholarly rigor of recent criticism...
Art museums have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. Though art museums have never... Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney read Lawrence Weschler's Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One...
This provocative, cutting-edge anthology addresses the challenges of curating, presenting, and preserving new-media art-artworks that use... This insightful and beautifully illustrated book offers the first feminist analysis of the phenomenon of women art collectors in America....
James Rosenquist's paintings, with their billboard-sized images of commercial subjects, are utterly emblematic of 1960s Pop Art. Their... The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is "a great public space, as essential a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon,"...
Figures of Speech addresses a key topic in Renaissance studies: the importance and pervasiveness of proverbs. For sixteenth-century... In this groundbreaking book, James Cahill expands the field of Chinese pictorial art history, opening both scholarly studies and popular...
In Telling Stories, David Kaufmann focuses on Philip Guston's controversial figurative paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s. He looks at... The Realisms of Berenice Abbott provides the first in-depth consideration of the work of photographer Berenice Abbott. Though best known...
This handsomely illustrated book is a welcome addition to the history of women during America's Gilded Age. Wanda M. Corn takes as her... Feminist historians of science and philosophy have shown that during the Italian Renaissance, the profound shift in the concept of...
This book provides a stimulating overview of twentieth-century German art, focusing on some of the period's key works by Max Beckmann,... American Modern, the beautifully illustrated companion volume to the exhibit of the same name, explores the reinvention of documentary...
Shared Intelligence, companion catalog to the exhibition of the same name, explores the stimulating and productive relationship between... This book examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs "after Walker Evans"-taken not...
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