The Arts: Treatments & subjects Books

As one of Currier & Ives's leading artists, Frances (""Fanny"") Bond Palmer (1812-1876) was a major lithographer whose prints found their way into homes, schools, barns, taverns, business offices, yacht clubs, and elsewhere, reaching a mass audience...

Early in his career, critics and collectors widely recognized that Harold Weston (1894-1972), was capturing and saying something unusual in his paintings. ""There is a young American painter,"" wrote Duncan Phillips, ""who stirs in me the hope for a...

Most people associate Georgia O'Keeffe with New Mexico, painted cow skulls, and her flower paintings. She was revered for so long-born in 1887, died at age ninety-eight in 1986-that we forget how young, restless, passionate, searching, striking, even...

The career of F. Samuel Janzow (1913-2001) was marked by roles as pastor, professor, and scholar. In all of these he served with great humility, from shepherding a small congregation in London during the blitz, to teaching countless college students, to...

Explores the life, career, and intellectual debates of art historian Meyer Schapiro, who worked at the nexus of artistic and intellectual practice and from there confronted some of the twentieth century’s most abiding questions. 

Demonstrates the crucial role that art-writing played as a tool of historical analysis in the work of the Romantic historian Jules Michelet’s work, decisively influencing his most important historical concepts, his idea of history, and his view of...

What is it about puzzles that drives us to figure them out? In this unique and innovative book, Bret L. Rothstein explores how mechanical problems delight and frustrate us, distracting our attention from recognizably “useful activities and directing it...

John Davies began photographing both the rural and urban landscape in the 1970s and this book brings together his early images alongside new contemporary works evisiting the same landscapes - mapping both equilibrium and change. These pairs of images are...

Memory formation, memorialization, collective history, and knowledge of the known world are guided by individuals and their cultures. Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress explores the ways people have preserved their history,...

Memory formation, memorialization, collective history, and knowledge of the known world are guided by individuals and their cultures. Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress explores the ways people have preserved their history,...

Frederick Law Olmsted is famous for his urban landscape designs: Central Park in Manhattan, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and Franklin Park in Boston. Olmsted devoted much of his later life to this work. What was the source of this creative energy and...

The motivating force behind Final Light was to document Snow's "visual language"-forged early in his career from abstract expressionist influences typified by Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, and Franz Kline, among others. Final Light...

LeRoy Neiman was arguably the world's most recognizable contemporary artist until his passing in June 2012. He broke the barrier between fine art and popular art while creating indelible images that helped define the twentieth century. But it is the life...

Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks Lincoln's somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson's swearing in. George W. Bush's reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define...

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, and following the success of its paperback rebranding, Penguin Books made the bold decision to completely redesign its publications. Their subsequent choice of designer would not only lead to the...

A celebration of The Henry Moore Foundation's Collection, this book explains the history of the Foundation and its Collection and examines Moore's somewhat haphazard way of working. It contains over 250 reproductions of his works, and offers an analysis...

Drawing on documents, interviews and archives, this title tells the story of the rise and fall of the Art Czar: his development from a small voice published in periodicals of marginal circulation, to a towering figure whose views influenced artists and...

Anthony Caro is internationally recognised as one of the greatest modernist sculptors. His radical approach heralded a revolution in sculpture. Through his work and teaching he freed sculpture from 'the monolith'. This landmark publication is the first...

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) died at the age of 39, when the Air Sea Rescue mission, which he was accompanying in his capacity as Official War Artist, failed to return to its base in Iceland. This book examines his landscape painting in watercolour and is...

Breon O'Casey, artist and craftsman, had an early introduction to artistic brilliance as colour reproductions of works by Europe's modern masters filled his childhood homes. This study examines the connections between family, Celtic culture and modernism...

Elizabeth Blackadder has been respected as a printmaker for over five decades and has experimented with a range of diverse media including etching, aquatint, monoprint and lithography. This book illustrates and catalogues every published print made by...

A comprehensive record of Henry Moore's life and work, of the influences that shaped his vision, and of his reactions to the work of other artists, periods and cultures. Spanning some 70 years, Moore's writings and conversations collected here include...

This book documents the production of Pacheco's suite of polychrome sculpture, entitled Dark Night of the Soul, which was made during her time as the fourth Associate Artist at the National Gallery, London, in 1999.

William Roberts was a key player in the development of Cubism in England before the First World War and the longest surviving member of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist movement. When he died in 1980, however, he was unfairly thought of as an artist whose...

A comprehensive survey of the work of Hans Schleger which includes drawing, painting and photography, as well as the graphic-design work for which he was best known: posters, symbols, advertising and corporate design and packaging.

Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks Lincoln's somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson's swearing in. George W. Bush's reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define...

Animals, as Lévi-Strauss wrote, are good to think with. This collection addresses and reassesses the variety of ways in which animals were used and thought about in Renaissance culture, challenging contemporary as well as historic views of the boundaries...

A dazzling collection of quotations from the modern American artist whose mobiles are beloved worldwide.Calder-isms is a collection of fascinating, irreverent, and often profound quotations from the influential modern American sculptor Alexander Calder...

This officially-licensed journal has a tactile, sculpted cover featuring the Trilogy icon and flower motifs from the bestselling Powerless trilogy of novels by Lauren Roberts.This eye-catching, stylish journal is sure to delight any fan of the Powerless...

Relive a full century of artistic innovation, iconic moments, and technological advancements in this gorgeously illustrated definitive history of anime.Paying tribute to a century of one of the world’s most popular and enduring genres, 100 Years of Anime...

The twentieth anniversary edition of An-My Le's acclaimed first book Small Wars, reissued with five new images and an afterword by Ocean Vuong.For the past three decades, An-My Le has used photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of...

In this fascinating Art of book, Colorado-born artist Ashleigh Izienicki reveals the process behind how she combines dark, macabre themes with a cute and feminine touch to create incredibly popular art. Ashleigh has accumulated a massive following...

Astre is a stunning new art magazine from 3dtotal Publishing, featuring exclusive pieces from some of the best artists in the world.With 100 pages,10 exclusive pull-out prints,luxury finishes, mixed paper types, artist insights, and incredible artwork,...

Quickly learn the basics of using crosshatching to create amazing drawings!Designed for artists who are starting out on their drawing journey or those who just need a quick refresher on the basics, this handy and ultra-portable reference guide helps you...

This book is the first biographical account of Sebastian Masuda written in English. Sebastian Masuda is a Japanese creator and artist who is globally known as the king of Japanese 'Kawaii' (cute) subculture which originated in Harajuku.His continuous...

The art history public has long been both fascinated and repelled by renowned Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. He was a murderer, thief, lover of all genders, servant and rival of popes and princes, as well as an ingenious artist. In his legendary...

The bestselling tarot set—now made tiny! Let Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones guide your tarot practice with this small but mighty tarot deck filled with stunning illustrations inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s fictional grimoire, the Necronomicon. Featuring...