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Endless Forms
Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts
A gorgeously illustrated book that is the first to explore the impact of Darwin’s ideas about man and nature on 19th-century visual arts Charles Darwin’s revolutionary theories of evolution and...
Nobody's Property
Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010
This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw...
Gauguin's Paradise Remembered
The Noa Noa Prints
In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as the island’s exotic native culture. Although the artist was disappointed by the rapidly westernizing...
More than One
Photographs in Sequence
The essays in More than One examine sequentiality and serialism in the practice of photography from the medium’s earliest years to the present. Contributors explore nuances of syntax and sense raised by works...
Spanish Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum
The Princeton University Art Museum's collection of Spanish drawings includes masterworks by artists such as Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652), Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682), Francisco Goya (1746–1828), Pablo Picasso (1881...
Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum
This richly illustrated volume offers a new look at the exceptional collection of Italian drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum. An introductory essay by Laura M. Giles chronicles the history and significance of the...
Designing Tomorrow
America's World's Fairs of the 1930s
In the midst of the Great Depression, America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s gave hope to millions, sustaining the assembled with visions of future progress. These grand expositions in Chicago, San Diego, Dallas, Cleveland, New...
The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art
The Yale Center for British Art stands as the final masterpiece of the great 20th-century American architect Louis I. Kahn (1901--1974). It received the 2005 American Institute of Architects Twenty-Five Year Award...
Adventures in Modern Art
The Charles K. Williams II Collection
In 1990 archaeologist Charles K. Williams II began seriously to acquire paintings, sculptures, watercolors, and drawings by modern American artists, after about ten years of collecting 19th- and 20th-century American...
Bruce Nauman
Topological Gardens
A close study of Bruce Nauman, the representative of the United States at the 53rd Venice Biennale, in the context of the city where the exhibition takes place One of the most complex and...