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Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art
A comprehensive study of the relationship between Buddhist pilgrimage and Asian visual culture According to sacred texts, the historical Buddha encouraged his disciples to make pilgrimages to sites...
Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture
The great Venetian sculptors of the High Renaissance, led by Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455–1532), explored a poetic and nostalgic approach to classical antiquity in their work. Their expression shares much with Mantegna,...
Framing the West
The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
A comprehensive look at one of the most celebrated photographers of the American frontier The image of the untamed American West persists as one of our country’s most enduring cultural myths, and few...
Nexus New York
Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis
An examination of the pioneering Caribbean and Latin American artists who resided in New York prior to WWII and shaped the American avant-garde Between 1900 and 1942, New York City was the site of...
Steve Wolfe on Paper
Working in the tradition of trompe l'oeil, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) creates careful replicas of classic books, worn album covers, and vinyl records, crafted from modeling paste, screenprints, drawings, and...
Time Out of Joint
Recall and Evocation in Recent Art
This engaging publication explores the artistic practices that employ evocation—the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations, and memories into the present—as a mode of connecting past and present. Featuring the...
Fiery Pool
The Maya and the Mythic Sea
A revolutionary new interpretation of ancient Maya art and culture Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world’s most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most...
What Can We Believe Where?
Photographs of the American West
Since taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams (born 1937) has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the evolving American landscape. Carefully edited by Adams from a remarkable body of work that...
Exposed
Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870
A shocking new exploration of the photographer as voyeur Since the rise of the photographic medium in the late 19th century, people have been fascinated by the camera’s ability to record striking moments...
Mark Bradford
A stunning mid-career retrospective Mark Bradford is best known for dazzling, large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class-, race-, and gender-based economies that structure urban society in the...