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Solitaire
Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Joan Semmel
This compelling book looks at the work of three influential women artists and at the import of feminism in their practices. Painters Lee Lozano (1930–1999), Sylvia Plimack Mangold (b. 1938), and Joan Semmel ...
form, color, illumination
Suzan Frecon painting
This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolorist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of color, form, and texture, and for the...
The Gates of Paradise
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
A rich account of the giant bronze doors so exquisite that Michelangelo proclaimed them suitable to serve as the “Gates of Paradise” In 1452, Florentine sculptor...
John Sloan's New York
A close look at early-20th-century New York City through the eyes of Ashcan artist John Sloan John Sloan (1871–1951) began his career as a commercial newspaper artist in Philadelphia where he studied...
Making a Home
Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York
Since the 1950s, many Japanese artists have made their homes and careers in New York––some for enhanced exposure to the international art world or to challenge themselves to take their artwork in new directions, and...
A Tradition Redefined
Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000
Drawn from the Chu-tsing Li collection of modern and contemporary Chinese paintings—the finest and most comprehensive of its kind in the West—A Tradition Redefined is the first in-depth exploration of the...
Fragile Diplomacy
Meissen Porcelain for European Courts
While imported Chinese porcelain had become a valuable commodity in Europe in the seventeenth century, local attempts to produce porcelain long remained unsuccessful. At last the secret of hard-paste porcelain was...
Inspiring Impressionism
The Impressionists and the Art of the Past
Inspiring Impressionism explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists’ commitment to capturing...
Ipswich Days
Arthur Wesley Dow and His Hometown
Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922) is renowned for his paintings and prints that take their subject matter from nature and reflect the orderly design and fine handcrafting championed by the Arts...
Dove/O'Keeffe
Circles of Influence
From the outset of her career, Georgia O’Keeffe credited her introduction to modernism as deriving in part from a reproduction of a pastel by Arthur Dove she saw around 1913. By this time Dove was well established as...