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Modernism in American Silver
20th-Century Design
A lavishly illustrated catalogue that is the first to explore the role of modernism in 20th- century American silver design From teaspoons to cocktail shakers and unique objects made for New York World’s...
Irish Rural Interiors in Art
This book offers a fascinating view of many aspects of Irish rural life from the eighteenth to the mid twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 images, many of which have not been published before, the book evokes...
The Art of Frederick Sommer
Photography, Drawing, Collage
"In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation."--Frederick Sommer This stunning book—published in the artist’s centenary—chronicles the extraordinary life and work of Frederick Sommer (1905–1999). One...
Manufactured Landscapes
The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
Over the past twenty-five years, the internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places where human activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His astonishing...
Hudson River School
Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
A breathtaking selection of works from the largest and finest collection of Hudson River paintings in the world Hudson River School paintings are among America’s most admired and well-loved artworks...
Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater
A journey into a time of astounding innovation on the stage Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet Jewish theaters became catalysts for modernist experimentation. Working with avant...
Dateline Israel
New Photography and Video Art
A fascinating and timely look at Israel by contemporary Israeli and non-Israeli artists from a wide range of perspectives? What can art tell us about Israel today? Is there an artistic consensus among those...
Sensation and Sensibility
Viewing Gainsborough's "Cottage Door"
Late in his career Thomas Gainsborough became preoccupied with the theme of the cottage door, and he created a group of paintings and drawings that show rustic figures clustered around the open door of a cottage set in a...
The Genius of Renoir
Paintings from the Clark
With a consuming enthusiasm for the paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), art collector Sterling Clark assembled one of the greatest private collections of Renoir's work during the first half of the 20th century....
The Perfect Medium
Photography and the Occult
The mesmerizing photographic history of occult phenomena, from levitations and apparitions to spectres, ghosts, and auras. In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would...