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Words for Pictures
Seven Papers on Renaissance Art and Criticism
The Italian Renaissance was a creative period for art criticism as well as for art itself. The early efforts to give verbal accounts of visual representations and their quality throw light not only on the art of the period...
James Wyatt, 1746-1813
Architect to George III
James Wyatt (1746–1813) is widely recognized as the most celebrated and prolific English architect of the 18th century. At the start of his lengthy career, Wyatt worked on designs for the Oxford Street Pantheon's neo-Classical...
Stalin's Library
A Dictator and his Books
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library “[A] fascinating new study.”—Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the twentieth...
William Henry Fox Talbot
Beyond Photography
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age—a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial...
Interaction of Color
50th Anniversary Edition
50th Anniversary Edition
“One of the most important books on color ever written.”—Michael Hession, Gizmodo “Interaction of Color with its illuminating visual exercises and mind-bending optical illusions, remains...
Art of the Actual
Naturalism and Style in Early Third Republic France, 1880-1900
The French Republic—with its rallying cry for liberty, equality, and fraternity—emerged in 1870, and by 1880 had developed a coherent republican ideology. The regime pursued secular policies and emphasized its commitment to...
The Normans
Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th Century Europe
A bold new history of the rise and expansion of the Norman Dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England In the eleventh century the climate was improving, population was growing, and people were on the move....
The Myth of Nouveau Réalisme
Art and the Performative in Postwar France
On October 27, 1960, art critic Pierre Restany named a group of Paris-based artists the “Nouveaux Réalistes” (New Realists) in a founding declaration that stated, “The New Realists recognize their collective singularity. New Realism =...
Adonis
Selected Poems
The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today “Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form but a way of thinking...
Eccentric Objects
Rethinking Sculpture in 1960s America
In America during the 1960s, sculpture as an artistic practice underwent a series of radical transformations. Artists including Lee Bontecou, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, H. C. Westermann, and Bruce Nauman offered...