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Matisse in the 1930s
The first in-depth examination of Matisse’s work in the 1930s, a key decade of creative innovation and renewal for this celebrated artist In 1930, as Henri Matisse (1869–1954) embarked on The Dance, a...
Survey of London: Whitechapel
Volumes 54 and 55
The Survey of London returns to the East End to chronicle Whitechapel, shedding new light on this widely misunderstood district In these volumes, the Survey of London returns to the East End to chronicle Whitechapel...
David Smith Sculpture
A Catalogue Raisonne, 1932-1965
A monumental new work of scholarship on a luminary of twentieth-century art “I’m not sure I have ever seen a catalogue raisonné as beautiful, as magnificent, as the new publication on the oeuvre of the great American...
English Garden Eccentrics
Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries
A highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardens In English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a series of...
Sugar Creek
Life on the Illinois Prairie
"This is a book for anyone who has ridden down a country road and, hearing the wind whistle through the cornstalks, wondered about the Indians and pioneers who listened to that sound before him."—Ron Grossman, Chicago...
Spinoza’s Book of Life
Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics
Most readers of Spinoza treat him as a pure metaphysician, a grim determinist, or a stoic moralist, but none of these descriptions captures the author of the Ethics, argues Steven B. Smith in this intriguing book....
Interaction of Color
New Complete Edition
A luxurious new 2-volume edition of the full set of original plates, text, and commentary One of the most influential books on color ever published, Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a...
Worlds Apart
Poverty and Politics in Rural America
Second Edition
First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition,...
Carolee Schneemann
Body Politics
Traces the feminist icon Carolee Schneemann’s prolific six-decade output, spanning her remarkably diverse, transgressive, and interdisciplinary expression Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was one of the most...
Faisal I of Iraq
The first major biography of the founder of modern Iraq, a charismatic champion of Arab independence and unity Born in 1883, King Faisal I of Iraq was a seminal figure not only in the founding of the state...