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The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum
A famous art collector, dealer, and indomitable champion of modern art, Emmy (Galka) Scheyer (1889–1945) is best known as the founder of the Blue Four artists’ group, whose members were Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee,...
Surrealism and Modernism
From the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
The Wadsworth Atheneum’s remarkable collection of twentieth-century art is due to a succession of adventurous directors and curators. This beautiful book showcases the museum’s holdings and provides fascinating details...
Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.
A clear-eyed view of Winston Churchill, the workings of his historical imagination, and his successes and failures as a statesman, by the celebrated historian of World War II and best-selling author of Five...
Varieties of Modernism
This book, the third in the Art of the Twentieth Century series, considers works of art produced in Europe and the United States between the 1930s and the 1960s.Arranged in four main parts, this abundantly...
Silver in London
The Parker and Wakelin Partnership, 1760–1776
The firm of Parker and Wakelin was the foremost silversmith in London for much of the eighteenth century, supplying royalty, aristocracy, and gentry with both domestic and ceremonial plate. This fascinating book draws on...
Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from The Jewish Museum
A Catalogue Raisonné
The observance of Hanukkah as a time of freedom and miracles resonates strongly with Jews today as in centuries past, and the Hanukkah lamp is central to the celebratory ritual. The importance of the Hanukkah lamp is...
Young America
Childhood in 19th-Century Art and Culture
A delightful look at how nineteenth-century American artists portrayed children and childhood In an era of both optimism and anxiety about the nation’s future, Americans in the nineteenth century focused...
Japanese: The Written Language
Part 1, Volume 1: Katakana
Eleanor Harz Jorden and Mari Noda, authors of the widely used language textbook Japanese: The Spoken Language, now offer the first volume of the much anticipated companion to it, Japanese: The Written Language.
The Science of Art
Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat
In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Martin Kemp examines the major optically oriented examples of artistic theory and practice from Brunelleschi’s invention of perspective and its exploitation by...
Hitler's Professors
This classic book examines the role of leading scholars, philosophers, historians, and scientists—in Hitler’s rise to power and eventual war of extermination against the Jews. Written in 1946 by one of the greatest...