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Making The Met, 1870-2020
The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates 150 years by presenting its evolution into one of the world’s greatest museums and its vision for the future“'Making the Met'” is all about the ambitions and...
Fabrice Samyn
I Am?
The first major monograph on the work of contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn Contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn (b. 1981) works in a wide variety of media, including painting, photography,...
Cezanne
The Rock and Quarry Paintings
A rich vein of the artist’s mature work, depicting the foundations of landscape and place From the mid-1860s until shortly before his death, Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) created 27 canvases that take rock...
Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne
Nature Transformed
A beautifully illustrated, concise critical analysis of the art, careers, and reception of the husband-wife team of artists known as Les Lalanne François-Xavier (1927–2008) and Claude (1925–2019) Lalanne...
Sean Scully
The Shape of Ideas
An extraordinary retrospective of one of the leading abstract painters of our time, surveying the artist’s career from the early 1970s to the present In a sustained exploration of the possibilities of...
Sin
An engaging and accessible account of how sin has been depicted in European art for centuries The depiction of sin has been fundamental to European visual culture for hundreds of years, especially—but not...
America's Impressionism
Echoes of a Revolution
A beautifully illustrated account of the Impressionist experiment in the United States—showing how the French style was put to distinctly American use From the late 19th century to the Second World War,...
Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter
An exploration of the art and writing of Louise Bourgeois through the lens of her relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis From 1952 to 1985, Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) underwent extensive Freudian...
Joan Mitchell
A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond Abstract Expressionism as well as the transatlantic contexts that shaped her
Swing Landscape
Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural
An insightful study of the progressive politics animating a great work of modernist mural painting In 1936 the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project commissioned Stuart Davis (1892–1964) to...