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Elie Wiesel
Confronting the Silence
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) became a...
Posing Modernity
The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today
An ambitious and revelatory investigation of the black female figure in modern art, tracing the legacy of Manet through to contemporary art This revelatory study investigates how changing modes of...
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A Bingewatcher's Notebook
A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were—and that’s a good...
Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History
Volume 3: Degas
This volume of Facture, a biennial journal that presents the latest conservation research on works of art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, focuses exclusively on conservation treatment, technical art history...
Martha Rosler
Irrespective
The work of Martha Rosler is perennially incisive, provocative, political, and timely, exploring a range of issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women....
To Describe a Life
Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror
A passionate, rigorous, and persuasive look at the helpful complexity of art during a time of profound cultural turmoil By turns historical, critical, and personal, this book examines the use of art—and...
Dream-Child
A Life of Charles Lamb
An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work “[An] electrifying portrait of Charles Lamb.”—New Yorker A pioneer of urban Romanticism,...
Strange Natures
Conservation in the Era of Synthetic Biology
A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation “It is impressive how the book manages to be so rich in perspectives on such a complex and controversial...
Asteroids
How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space
A unique, wide-ranging examination of asteroid exploration and our future in space Human travel into space is an enormously expensive and unforgiving endeavor. So why go? In this accessible and authoritative book,...
Sculptural Seeing
Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy
Although perspective has long been considered one of the essential developments of Renaissance painting, this provocative new book shifts the usual narrative back centuries, showing that medieval sculptors were already...