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Contested Territory
Dien Bien Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam
The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands’ transformation into Northwest Vietnam This new work of historical and political...
Empire of Destruction
A History of Nazi Mass Killing
The first comparative, comprehensive history of Nazi mass killing – showing how genocidal policies were crucial to the regime’s strategy to win the war Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians...
How Photography Became Contemporary Art
Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age
A leading critic’s inside story of “the photo boom” during the crucial decades of the 1970s and 80s“Grundberg . . . is a vibrant, opinionated, authoritative guide to the medium’s past and present.”—Jackie...
Vija Celmins
To Fix the Image in Memory
The beautiful catalogue that accompanies the critically-acclaimed exhibition currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum Best known for her striking drawings of ocean surfaces, begun in 1968 and revisited...
Surrey
A newly expanded volume on England’s preeminent “Home County,” exploring its mix of rural and urban architecture as well as its many major historic buildingsSurrey, originally published in 1962, was the...
The Illusion of Control
Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can’t) Do About It
A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the...
Warner Bros
The Making of an American Movie Studio
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasyWarner Bros charts the rise of an...
Conversations about Sculpture
“The rhythm of the body moving through space has been the motivating source of most of my work.”—Richard Serra Drawn from talks between celebrated artist Richard Serra and acclaimed art historian Hal Foster...
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...
William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition organized by the Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, to celebrate the 2018...