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The Emperor's Private Paradise
Treasures from the Forbidden City
An extraordinary glimpse into imperial art from the Qianlong Garden, one of China’s most stunning historical sites, located deep within the Forbidden City For centuries, China's Forbidden City has...
Eva Hesse Spectres 1960
A new examination of a fascinating group of paintings from a pioneering mid-century artist In 1960 Eva Hesse (1936–1970) created an unusual group of oil paintings that, when considered in contrast to her...
Light of the Sufis
The Mystical Arts of Islam
Light of the Sufis introduces the complex and multilayered topic of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, by concentrating on its expression in the visual arts and offers new insights into the integrative and fluid nature of the...
Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life
Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism
Beginning around 1910, vanguard artists demanded that true art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life. This volume highlights the work of six influential European artists who took this idea into the wider world,...
Ancestors of the Lake
Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea
After Dutch expeditions reached New Guinea's Lake Sentani island and Humboldt Bay in the mid-1800s, Western visitors began collecting works by local artists. Ancestors of the Lake is a stunning look at the region's...
Michelangelo Pistoletto
From One to Many, 1956-1974
One of Europe’s most influential contemporary artists, Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933) has persistently investigated and expanded the role of the spectator in art since the 1950s through painting, sculpture, and performance...
Richard Hawkins
Third Mind
This stunning book offers an important mid-career retrospective of the work of American artist Richard Hawkins (born 1961), whose paintings, collages, and mixed-media pieces are making a crucial contribution to the contemporary...
Christen Købke
Danish Master of Light
Christen Købke (1819–1848) was arguably the greatest painter of Denmark’s “Golden Age,” the period of the nation’s supreme artistic achievement. He had the remarkable ability to invest the simplest corner of town or countryside...
Olmec
Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico
A major exploration of one of the most important early artistic cultures of the ancient Americas Considered the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica, the Olmec developed an iconic and sophisticated artistic...
Bye Bye Kitty!!!
Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art
A fascinating look at the work of contemporary Japanese artists challenging the country's mainstream aesthetic In recent decades Japanese art has achieved immense popularity in the West while being...