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The Age of Picasso and Matisse
Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago’s opportunity to host the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known as the Armory Show, in 1913 set a radical new course for modern and contemporary art in the United States. This...
The App Generation
How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
From the famed Harvard psychologist and an expert on the impact of digital media technologies, a riveting exploration of the power of apps to shape our young people—for better or for worse No one has failed...
Status Update
Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age
Social media, once heralded as revolutionary and democratic, have instead proved exclusionary and elitist Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook promised a new participatory online...
The Snail Darter and the Dam
How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River
The untold story of a notorious environmental case and the citizen crusade that carried a little fish through Washington politics and the Supreme Court Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to...
Edward Ruscha
Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume One: 1956–1976
An immense contribution to scholarship on Ed Ruscha and his pioneering artistic practice, offering thorough documentation of his works on paper This highly anticipated book—the first in a series of three...
George Romney
A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings
This magnificent catalogue, in three volumes and with nearly 2,000 illustrations, will restore George Romney (1734–1802) to his long-overdue position – with his contemporaries Reynolds and Gainsborough – as a master of 18th...
The People's Galleries
Art Museums and Exhibitions in Britain, 1800–1914
This innovative history of British art museums begins in the early 19th century. The National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London may have been at the center of activity, but...
Samuel Palmer
Shadows on the Wall
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet William Blake, Palmer brought a new spiritual intensity to his interpretation of...
Florence
A Walking Guide to Its Architecture
Each year, millions of visitors travel to Florence to admire the architectural marvels of this famous Renaissance city. In this compact yet comprehensive volume, architect and architectural historian Richard J. Goy offers a...
The Modern Architecture Symposia, 1962–1966
A Critical Edition
In a series of three symposia at Columbia University in the 1960s, leading scholars and critics gathered to re-examine the architecture of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s and assess its scope and significance anew. Chaired by...