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Victorian Sculpture
The first comprehensive survey of a huge, rewarding and hitherto neglected field. Read presents a wide-ranging account of the sculpture of the nineteenth-century, placing it in the context of the lives and working conditions...
The Critical Historians of Art
The first extensive critical account of the work of Semper, Riegl, Wolfflin, Warburg, and Panofsky.
The Trevi Fountain
The Trevi Fountain deserves recognition as one of a select group of monuments, the form and meaning of which produce a resonance transcending the culture and age that conceived them. A survey of artists stimulated by the Trevi, from...
German Romanticism and English Art
Legend, Myth, and Magic in the Image of the Artist
A Historical Experiment
“This is the first English translation of a brief, scholarly, and brilliantly original work which sets out to examine the links between the legend of the artist, in all cultures, and what E.H. Gombrich, in an...
The Warburg Years (1919-1933)
Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology
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Reading Abstract Expressionism
Context and Critique
The first collection of writings on the entire history of Abstract Expressionism--a movement that has inspired six decades of heated rhetoric Abstract Expressionism is arguably the most important art...
The Société Anonyme
Modernism for America
A visual feast of modern European and American art from one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary collections This beautifully illustrated book highlights the unique history of The Société Anonyme,...
Wearing Propaganda
Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States
Protest fashion from the Vietnam War years is widely familiar, but today few are aware that dramatic fashion and textile designs served as patriotic propaganda for the Japanese, British, and Americans during the Asia-Pacific War (1931...
The Marvel of Maps
Art, Cartography, and Politics in Renaissance Italy
Among the most beautiful and compelling works of Renaissance art, painted maps adorned the halls and galleries of princely palaces. This book is the first to discuss in detail the three-dimensional display of these painted map cycles...