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The Art of Mu Xin
Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes
Mu Xin (b. 1927) is one of the leading expatriate artist-intellectuals of our time. Now living in New York City, he is known for his complex writings and paintings. Clearly a formidable figure in the cultural and intellectual...
Art on the Line
The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836
On May 1, 1780, England’s Royal Academy of Arts opened its twelfth annual exhibition, the first to be held in the magnificent rooms of William Chambers’s newly built Somerset House. For the next fifty-seven years, the Great...
Love and Loss
American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures
Portrait miniatures, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand, are unique among works of art for their highly personal associations. At the height of their American popularity, from 1760 to about 1840, these cherished...
Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000
Diversity and Difference
This stunning book celebrates the many contributions women designers have made to American culture over the past century in such fields as textiles, ceramics, graphics, furniture, interiors, metalwork, fashion, and...
Flesh and the Ideal
Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), one of the most important figures ever to have written about art, is considered by many to be the father of modern art history. This book is an intellectual biography of Winckelmann...
Image Duplicator
Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art
Roy Lichtenstein’s distinctive paintings of the early 1960s are synonymous with the Pop art movement. These bold, oversized images inspired by newspaper advertisements and comic book scenes have been taken as reflecting...
The Sculptural Imagination
Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist
In the modern period, sculpture has often been viewed as more limited, more literal, and also more primitive than the “leading” visual art: painting. But precisely because of its marginal status, Alex Potts points out in this...
Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990
In this uniquely wide-ranging book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. The three great upheavals — in Mexico (1910–1940), in...
Paul Rand
A Designer`s Art
“A monograph-cum-manifesto by America’s leading modernist designer and corporate communications pioneer. . . . This book describes design as a formal, aesthetic, and conceptual marriage of rationalism and wit.”—Lingua...
The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist
At the beginning of the fifteenth century, painters and sculptors were seldom regarded as more than artisans and craftsmen, but within little more than a hundred years they had risen to the status of “artist.” This book...