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The Independent Eye
Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
This beautifully illustrated book takes readers inside Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie's dynamic private collection of contemporary British art, an intended gift to the Yale Center for British Art. Spanning the past four decades,...
Jitish Kallat
Public Notice 3
The Swami Vivekananda's speech to the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 is the centerpiece of Indian artist Jitish Kallat's new work, Public Notice 3. The installation went on view at the Art Institute...
Hollywood Westerns and American Myth
The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy
In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns:...
Architecture in Uniform
Designing and Building for the Second World War
This fascinating book offers a new perspective on the architectural history of the Second World War, which in previous accounts has most often been viewed as a hiatus between peaceful periods of production. Jean-Louis Cohen...
The Life and Death of Buildings
On Photography and Time
Buildings inhabit and symbolize time, giving form to history and making public space an index of the past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections of past states of their subjects. This visually striking...
The Itinerant Languages of Photography
Honorable Mention, Exhibition Catalogues — 2014 AAM Museum Publications Design CompetitionWhile photographs have been exchanged, appropriated, and mobilized in different contexts since the 19th century, their...
New Jersey as Non-Site
“Best in Show” — 2014 AAM Museum Publications Design Competition Between 1950 and 1975, some of the postwar era’s most innovative artists flocked to a very unexpected place: New Jersey. Appreciating what others...
Dancing into Dreams
Maya Vase Painting of the Ik' Kingdom
Dancing into Dreams explores 8th-century Maya vase painting of the Ik' kingdom, located in the tropical lowlands of present day Guatemala. Ik' vases are acclaimed for their naturalistic color, veristic portraiture,...
City of Gold
The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus
The modern Cypriot town of Polis Chrysochous—"City of Gold"—lies above the city of Arsinoe and the earlier city-kingdom of Marion. In 1885 excavators began exploring the extensive cemeteries of these cities. Since 1983 the...
Cézanne and the Modern
Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection
A beautiful presentation of fifty masterworks of late 19th- to mid-20th-century avant-garde European art from one of America's most distinguished private collectionsCézanne and the Modern showcases...