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Monochrome
Painting in Black and White
Painting “without color” has long held a fascination for artists. In this striking and original book, the authors explore how and why artists from the 15th century to the present have chosen to paint in black, white, and...
Murillo
The Self-Portraits
This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition that brings together the only two known self-portraits by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (1617–1682), one of the finest painters of the Spanish Golden Age. Painted almost twenty...
The Silver Caesars
A Renaissance Mystery
The twelve silver-gilt cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze–magnificent examples of 16th-century European goldsmithing in size, design, and quality of execution – feature figures and scenes from Roman historian Suetonius’s...
Monet
Framing Life
This beautiful publication highlights a treasured painting in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts—Rounded Flower Bed (Corbeille de fleurs) by Claude Monet (1840–1926). The canvas was painted while Monet...
Lake Keitele
A Vision of Finland
In 1999, Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s Lake Keitele (1905) became the first Finnish painting to enter the National Gallery and is now one of the most popular pictures in the collection. Although the artist and his work...
The Absent Museum
Blueprint for a Museum of Contemporary Art for the Capital of Europe
How can artists maintain the tension between globalization’s paradoxes and history’s turbulences and their individual sensibilities and voices? In light of recent tumultuous historical developments, this book, accompanying an...
Public Parks, Private Gardens
Paris to Provence
Masterworks by great Romantic, Impressionist, and early modern artists are presented in relationship to the 19th-century horticultural revolution that transformed the landscape of France The spectacular...
Mirroring China's Past
Emperors, Scholars, and Their Bronzes
A lavishly illustrated book that offers an in-depth look at the cultural practices surrounding the tradition of collecting ancient bronzes in China during the 18th and 19th centuries In ancient China (2000...
Inventur
Art in Germany, 1943–55
As Germany went through a period of intense physical and moral stocktaking in the wake of World War II, the country’s artists responded by creating highly charged works and engaging in heated debates about artistic practice...
Thomas Cole's Journey
Atlantic Crossings
A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travels Thomas Cole (1801–1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is...