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The African Shore
A riveting and highly praised novel by Guatemala’s leading writer of fiction, now in English for the first time “Rodrigo Rey Rosa is the most rigorous writer of my generation, the most transparent, the one that knows...
History of Design
Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000
A survey of spectacular breadth, covering the history of decorative arts and design worldwide over the past six hundred years Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first...
William Kent
Designing Georgian Britain
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Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso
Written in the spirit of Ovid (43 B.C–A.D. 17/18), this lively and erudite book traces the art derived from Ovid’s Metamorphoses from the Renaissance up to the present day. The Metamorphoses has been more widely...
Abstract Bodies
Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender
An innovative analysis of 1960s abstract sculpture that draws on transgender studies and queer theory Now back in print, Abstract Bodies was the first book to bridge the interdisciplinary field of...
Reynolds
Portraiture in Action
A deeply researched and elegantly written study on Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)—Georgian England’s most celebrated portraitist and the first president of the British Royal Academy of Arts—this lavishly illustrated volume explores...
Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History
Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
The National Gallery of Art introduces a new journal presenting the latest conservation research on works in its collection. Named for “the manner in which things are made,” Facture addresses aspects of conservation from...
Warner Bros
The Making of an American Movie Studio
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy
Wasteland
A History
In Wasteland, Vittoria Di Palma takes on the “anti-picturesque,” offering an account of landscapes that have traditionally drawn fear and contempt. Di Palma argues that a convergence of beliefs, technologies, institutions,...
Suspended Sentences
Three Novellas
“Elegant. Unpretentious. Approachable. . . . He is, all in all, quite an endearing Nobelist.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post “Modiano is a pure original.”—Adam Thirlwell, The Guardian...