Gender, Space, and the Gaze in Post-Haussmann Visual Culture: Beyond the Flaneur
Book
Charles Baudelaire's flaneur, as described in his 1863 essay "The Painter of Modern Life," remains...
Golden Kingdoms - Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas
Joanne Pillsbury, Timothy Potts and Kim N. Richter
Book
This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring some three hundred works of...
Hartmut Bohm: Objects in Dialogue
Book
'Matrix and metaphor', 'emptiness and volume', 'overlayering and penetration', 'system and syntax'...
Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Hiroshige, Melanie Trede and Lorenz Bichler
Book
This title features Hiroshige's Edo: Masterful ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Tokyo in the mid-19th...
In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde: An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum
Book
In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of...
Kazimir Malevich Letters Documents Memoirs and Criticism
Charlotte Douglas, Irina Vakar and Tatiana Mikhienko
Book
In association with The Malevich Society this is the first authoritative English edition of the...
Modern Art in Detail: 75 Masterpieces
Book
Great works of art cannot be fully understood in a single encounter. This is perhaps even truer for...
Nonhuman Photography
Book
Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is...
On Weaving
Nicholas Fox Weber, Anni Albers, Manuel Cirauqui and T'ai Smith
Book
The classic book on the art and history of weaving--now expanded and in full color Written by one of...
Paintings in Proust
Book
A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly visual works in Western...