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Hogarth to Turner
British Painting
This book traces some key developments in British 18th- and 19th-century painting, focusing in particular on the outstanding portraits and landscapes in the National Gallery’s collection. Compare what rival portrait painters...
Alexander McQueen
Savage Beauty
Celebrating the astounding creativity and originality of designer Alexander McQueen, who relentlessly questioned and confronted the requisites of fashion“An authoritative and moving insight into the legacy of the...
Tell It With Pride
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial
A rich narrative and detailed documentation of the 54th regiment give insight into Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ famous Civil War Memorial On July 18, 1863, six months after President Abraham Lincoln signed...
Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzles The question of how falling cats land on their feet...
Claggett
Newport’s Illustrious Clockmakers
In the 18th century, Newport, Rhode Island, was home to some of the most skillful craftsmen in colonial North America. Among them were the clockmakers William Claggett (1694–1748), James Wady (d. 1759), and Thomas Claggett ...
Admiral Hyman Rickover
Engineer of Power
A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial “Father of the Nuclear Navy” “Marc Wortman delivers a 17-gun salute to this short, profane spitfire who pulled a reluctant Navy into the...
A World after Liberalism
Philosophers of the Radical Right
A bracing account of liberalism’s most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century “Powerful. . . . Bracing. . . . Part of the book’s eerie relevance comes from...
For America
Paintings from the National Academy of Design
A sweeping look at the ways American artists have viewed themselves, their peers, and their painted worlds over two centuries This stunning book provides an unprecedented glimpse into the past two centuries...
Alma W. Thomas
Everything Is Beautiful
A sweeping retrospective of Alma W. Thomas’s wide-reaching artistic practice that sheds new light on her singular search for beauty Achieving fame in 1972 as the first Black woman to mount a solo show at the Whitney...
After Disbelief
On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy
An intimate, philosophic quest for eternity, amidst the disenchantments and disappointments of our time “Anyone who, in our age of disbelief, longs to believe in God will find Mr. Kronman worth reading.”—Andrew Stark,...