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Georgian Arcadia
Architecture for the Park and Garden
Explores the origins and evolution of Georgian landscape architecture, a period of innovative and diverse garden structures in which some of the era’s greatest architects experimented with different forms, styles, and new...
How to Read European Decorative Arts
Illuminating three centuries of European artistry and ingenuity, this volume in The Met’s acclaimed How to Read series provides a wide-ranging exploration of decorative arts from British writing tables to Russian snuffboxes
A World Without Soil
The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet
A celebrated biologist's manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change “Jo Handelsman is a national treasure, and her clarion call warning of a looming...
Rapture and Melancholy
The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
The first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters’” (Kirkus Reviews) “Provides an occasion to revisit not...
The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media
A roster of prominent artists, curators, and scholars offers a new, entirely contemporary approach to our understanding of photography and media Focusing on the Art Institute of Chicago’s deep and varied collection...
Josh Kline
Project for a New American Century
A deep look at a contemporary artist whose work highlights how the rise of technology and corporate capitalism have disrupted our lives and polarized society One of the most thought-provoking artists of his...
Artists We've Known
Selected works from the Walter Hopps and Caroline Huber Collection
An eclectic selection of twentieth-century artwork from the collection of legendary curator and museum director Walter Hopps, some with personal reminiscences by the artists themselves Over a fifty-year career that...
Cecily Brown
Death and the Maid
An intimate survey of Cecily Brown’s paintings, drawings, and prints, providing a meditation on the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, and vanitas in her work This survey of the acclaimed British...
In Search of the River Jordan
A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water
A writer’s travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River—exploring the long conflict over water supply Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has diverted the...
By the Rivers of Babylon
A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal’s most celebrated writers Incapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumor, the narrator, António, spends his...