Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charismatic and penetrating...
On a cold winter morning in Paris in 1893, Marie, a farmer's daughter from the Midi is helped across a bustling street by a diffident young artist named Pierre Bonnard....
Even before the advent of haute couture, Paris was a great centre of fashion. During the second half of the nineteenth century, when the capital was transformed by an ambitious...
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound. Pound's celebrated haiku powerfully evokes the situation of the individual in the metropolis: personalities...
Originally created to accompany the 2007 exhibition Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Essential Modernism brings into focus the foundation and...
This generously illustrated book presents highlights from the National Gallerys display of Italian Renaissance painting, one of the richest collections of its kind in the world. Duccio to Leonardo focuses...
Jean Dubuffet (1901-85) was one of the major painters of the twentieth century, but his architectural achievements have commanded less attention until now. This oversight is all the more surprising...
One of the most influential filmmakers of the late 20th century, Derek Jarman directed cult feature films such as Jubilee (1977) and Caravaggio (1986), as well as music videos for...
Jacques-Louis David came to the fore as the unchallenged leader of the renewal of historical painting in Europe with The Oath of the Horatii, painted a few steps from the...
Salvador Dali's (1904-89) surrealist paintings such as The Persistence of Memory and The Metamorphosis of Narcissus are internationally beloved for their unforgettable images and eccentric metaphors for the human condition....
Common Wealth is a group exhibition that brings together five celebrated international contemporary artists from Europe and Latin America, in the most important display of their work in the UK...
The concept 'Collections/Connections' is the starting point of a unique exhibition organised by Grand-Hornu Images. The rich design collection from the 20th and 21st century of the Province of Hainaut...
In 1969, the artist Robert Smithson proposed a new interpretation of the work of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). In Smithson's view, Cézanne's painting had been distorted by the Cubists, reduced to...
This book recounts the engaging story of a French Irish immigrant who became the greatest American sculptor of his day. During his lifetime, Saint Gaudens 1848 to 1907 both contributed...
The fourth and final part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well...
This practical handbook gives art students a comprehensive guide to human anatomy, offering instruction in a wide range of media that includes pencils, inks, pastel chalks, charcoal, and crayons. The...
American Moderns on Paper presents a selection of approximately 100 of the finest watercolors, pastels, and drawings by leading American modernists from the Wadsworth Atheneum's renowned collection of American art....
In the early 1940s, John and Dominique de Menil began to acquire art. Collecting in an intuitive and personal manner, the de Menils gathered things in which we believe, as...
In A Human Eye, one of Americas most distinguished poets explores the complex relationship between art and social justice. Over more than three decades Richs essays have been praised for...
