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The Troubled Republic
Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889–1900
Fin-de-siècle France was a period of unrest, with strikes, demonstrations, and anarchist terrorism reflecting deep social and political differences. Yet at the same time, this decade produced a vibrant visual culture...
From Mind, Heart, and Hand
Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection
A superb selection of drawings from the extraordinary collection of Stuart Cary Welch Stuart Cary Welch’s collection of Persian, Turkish, and Indian art is renowned throughout the world for its quality and...
Livable Modernism
Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depression
A fascinating look at how designers in the 1930s mixed avant-garde principles with middle-class taste and marketing savvy to generate a distinctly American streamlined aesthetic During the years of the...
Becket’s Crown
Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300
To appreciate England’s earliest Gothic buildings and art—the great cathedrals at Canterbury, Lincoln, Salisbury, and Wells and contemporary Gothic texts and images—it is necessary to understand the religious and ethical...
Barnett Newman
A Catalogue Raisonné
A magisterial presentation of all the works of Barnett Newman, along with fascinating new insights into his artistic achievement Barnett Newman (1905–1970), one of the greatest artists of the twentieth...
The Shape of Time
Remarks on the History of Things
When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion...
Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting
Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution
A lavishly illustrated study of the charming genre paintings of Vermeer and his contemporaries The appealing genre paintings of great seventeenth-century Dutch artists—Vermeer, Steen, de Hooch, Dou, and...
The Persian Album, 1400-1600
From Dispersal to Collection
This groundbreaking book examines portable art collections assembled in the courts of Greater Iran in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Made for members of the royal families or ruling elites, albums were created to...
The Lure of the Object
With contributions by Emily Apter, George Baker, Malcolm Baker, John Brewer, Martha Buskirk, Margaret Iversen, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Karen Lang, Mark A. Meadow, Helen Molesworth, Marcia Pointon, Christian Scheidemann,...
Roman Woodworking
A comprehensive exploration of woodworking in the ancient Roman world “A valuable overview in English of how the Romans used wood in objects great and small, humble and grand.”—Richard F. Liebhart, American Journal...