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Louise Nevelson's Sculpture
Drag, Color, Join, Face
A daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of making In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise...
Bruegel’s Winter Scenes
Historians and Art Historians in Dialogue
This focused volume presents a deep exploration and new interpretations of the winter paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525–1569). By applying new methodological approaches and interdisciplinary research to these...
Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums
From personal ornamentation to funerary practice, from palace decoration to private devotion, jade has played a major role in Chinese social, cultural, and political life for millennia. Exploring the history of this revered...
The Power of Color
Five Centuries of European Painting
Revealing the power of color as physical medium, a key to interpretation, and a mediator of social and political change“This excellently illustrated volume . . . will serve as a comprehensive survey on...
Transparency
The Material History of an Idea
A wide-ranging illustrated history of transparency as told through the evolution of the glass window Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We expect...
Anni Albers
A long-overdue reassessment of one of the most important and influential woman artists working at midcentury Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a German textile designer, weaver, and printmaker, and among the...
Tempest
The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions
A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy...
The Ever-Changing Past
Why All History Is Revisionist History
An experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge"A rallying cry in favor of historians who, revisiting past subjects, change their minds. . . ...
The Women of Atelier 17
Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York
A timely reexamination of the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17, focusing on the women whose work defied gender norms through novel aesthetic forms and techniques In this important book...
The Other Modern Movement
Architecture, 1920–1970
A revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness “[Frampton] remains a formidable force in architecture . . . The Other Modern Movement offers...