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Jennifer Steinkamp
Blind Eye
Best known for immersive video projections that use digitally animated natural and abstract forms to investigate themes such as the passage of time and organic movement, Jennifer Steinkamp (b. 1958) is one of today’s most...
Renaissance Splendor
Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries
Featuring detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool, silk, and precious metal-wrapped threads, the Valois Tapestries are one of the most extravagant sets...
Rachel Rose: Wil-o-Wisp
The Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media
Presenting an ambitious new project by Rachel Rose (b. 1986) commissioned jointly by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, this book offers a rare behind-the-scenes perspective on...
Josef Albers
Interaction
“Only appearances are not deceiving.”—Josef Albers Josef Albers (1888–1976) was one of the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism: he was an extraordinary teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist,...
Nature’s Nation
American Art and Environment
A groundbreaking ecocritical exploration of American art that examines the complex and evolving relationship between art and the environment Public awareness of environmental issues has never been greater,...
Lola Álvarez Bravo
Picturing Mexico
An outstanding exploration of a photographer, educator, and curator whose work both documented and created change in post-Revolutionary Mexico This stunning and lyrical volume highlights the personal work...
Jean Schlumberger
The Rachel Lambert Mellon Collection from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
A dazzling look at a superb collection of magnificent jewelry and objets d’art by one of the 20th century’s most inventive and influential designers Famous for his inventive interpretations of animal and...
Oscar G. Rejlander
Artist Photographer
A fascinating survey of the varied career of an inventive and influential 19th-century photographer, from allegorical montage to Darwin’s catalogue of emotions Oscar G. Rejlander (1813–1875) was a Swedish...
Pastels in the Musée du Louvre
17th and 18th Centuries
The Musée du Louvre boasts an exceptional collection of 17th- and 18th-century European pastels. Due to their fragility, there have been scant opportunities to view and learn from these spectacular artworks. This in-depth...
Zilia Sánchez
Soy Isla
A beautifully produced, comprehensive look at Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez that traces her alluring and evocative paintings and sculpture from the 1950s to today Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926) often...