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Walter Leblanc
Little is known about Walter Leblanc (1932–1986), one of the key representatives of kinetic and optical art in the mid-20th century. This comprehensive monograph, the first on this artist for an international audience,...
Orthographs
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
This stunning photographic essay traces the development of Renzo Piano’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, a multifunctional complex for arts, education, and entertainment opening in 2017 in Athens. Photographer...
The Cubism Seminars
The complex facets of Cubism remain relevant subjects in art history today, a century after Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed the revolutionary style. This impressive collection of essays by international experts...
Anatomy of Malice
The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals
In this gripping and haunting narrative, a renowned psychiatrist sheds new light on the psychology of the war criminals at NurembergWhen the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an...
The Thannhauser Gallery
Marketing Van Gogh
While legend has it that Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) sold only one work during his lifetime, it was not long after his death that sales of his paintings began to shatter auction house records. In this carefully researched...
Benjamin Franklin in London
The British Life of America's Founding Father
An absorbing and enlightening chronicle of the nearly two decades the American statesman, scientist, author, inventor, and Founding Father spent in the British imperial capital of colonial America For more...
Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond
Redefining Humanity's Purpose in Space
An exploration of the changing conceptions of the iconic Space Shuttle and a call for a new vision of spaceflight The thirty years of Space Shuttle flights saw contrary changes in American visions of space....
Tastemaker
Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home
A riveting and superbly illustrated account of the enigmatic House Beautiful editor’s profound influence on mid-century American taste From 1941 to 1964, House Beautiful magazine’s crusading...
John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné
Volume Four: 1994–2004
The fourth volume of the John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné comprises approximately 370 works that represent the activity of this iconic conceptual artist between 1994 and 2004. Here, John Baldessari (b. 1931)...
Modern Painters, Old Masters
The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War
With the rise of museums in the 19th century, including the formation in 1824 of the National Gallery in London, as well as the proliferation of widely available published reproductions, the art of the past became visible and...