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Fragile Demon
Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935 to 1950
One of Mexico’s most important modern artists, Juan Soriano (1920–2006) served as a link between the nationalist imagery of the Mexican muralists and the experimental vanguard of the 1950s and 1960s known as “La...
Rethinking Recarving
Ideals, Practices, and Problems of the "Wu Family Shrines" and Han China
The "Wu Family Shrines" pictorial carvings from Han dynasty China (206 BCE–220 CE) are among the earliest works of Chinese art examined in an international arena. Since the eleventh century, the carvings have been...
The Plains of Mars
European War Prints, 1500-1825, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
From 1500 to 1825, Europe remained in an almost perpetual state of war. Religion, politics, economics, and dynastic ambition all played a role in the turmoil that spread across the continent. War-related printed...
On Kawara
10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages
Since the mid-1960s, On Kawara (b. 1933) has objectively recorded his existence through everyday numbers, words, and found images. This handsomely designed and illustrated book presents works selected by the...
The Railway
Art in the Age of Steam
A fascinating account of how the railway influenced more than a century of art in Europe and America Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in 19th-century Europe and...
Grand Scale
Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian
Grand Scale brings to light rare surviving examples of mural-size prints—a Renaissance art form nearly lost from historical record. The most famous 16th-century woodcuts, engravings, and etchings were those...
Collecting by Design
Silver and Metalwork of the Twentieth Century from the Margo Grant Walsh Collection
Margo Grant Walsh is a prominent interior architect with an impeccable eye for collecting silver. The recipient of prestigious awards in her industry, she has devoted her career to designing interiors for major...
The Lure of the East
British Orientalist Painting
With its unprecedented focus on the history of Orientalism in British art, this handsome book places the British within the story of how the genre was established in the 19th century—a story heretofore dominated by...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
A highly anticipated look at the life and work of one of turn-of-the-century America’s most creative and influential furniture designers Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) ranked among the most innovative...
Action/Abstraction
Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976
The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler, and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire...