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A Conspiracy of Images
Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War
An important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban...
The King's Pictures
The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers
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Judges 1-12
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Profound changes have occurred in the study of early Israel over the past four decades. In recent years, the pendulum of scholarship has swung toward literary and theological readings that are not significantly informed by...
Investment in Blood
The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan War
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Ruth
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
In recent years, students, scholars, and lay readers of the Bible have been increasingly drawn to the book of Ruth. Delving deeply into the complicated nature of its characters’ relationships, Jeremy Schipper encourages...
The Art of Libation in Classical Athens
This handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid—water, wine, milk,...
The Conversation Piece
Making Modern Art in 18th-Century Britain
Shortlisted for the 2018 Apollo Book of the Year award Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697–1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then revitalized by Johan Zoffany (1733–1810), the conversation...
Why Acting Matters
A provocative, highly engaging essay on the art of pretending on the stage, on screen, and in daily life Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and...
The Life Within
Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence
For the Classic Maya, who flourished in and around the Yucatan peninsula in the first millennium AD, artistic materials were endowed with an internal life. Far from being inert substances, jade, flint, obsidian, and wood held a...
Severina
A new translation of the Guatemalan author whom Roberto Bolaño called “the most rigorous writer of my generation, the most transparent . . . the most luminous of all” “Severina is impeccably written. ....