This incisive book offers a revealing glimpse into the life and thought of a seminal art critic. Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990) was a key figure in the development of modern art in Europe and America from the 1950s to the 1980s. He is credited with coi...

On the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, African American artists and musicians grappled with new language and forms inspired by the black nationalist turn in the Civil Rights movement.  "The Freedom Principle", which accompanies an exhibition on t...

This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition "Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action", on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from June 23 to September 13, 2015 and from October 7, 2015 to...

Early in his career, Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) spent six formative years (1948-1954) in France, where he discovered the late work of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926). Visits to the remote island of Belle-Ile off the coast of Brittan...

The Metropolitan Museum Journal, issued annually by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent. The essays in this volume include a new analysis of Gr...

The first wide-ranging study of sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain, this book examines the significance of the bust and the statue as modes of representation within that culture. Adding a missing dimension to accounts of eighteenth-...

A leading Orientalist painter during the Third Republic in France, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant was one of the great colourists of the period, and his work evokes the sights he had witnessed during his travels in Spain and Morocco, as well as reflec...

American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and 70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, performanc...

In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention, making and the powers of Gothic art. His richly documente...

Forty works by early Netherlandish masters from van Eyck to Bosch – reproduced in exquisite detail – are the subject of this breathtaking book that leads readers deep into the paintings to reveal each artist's astonishing technique and brilliant appl...