"Today the West" chronically associates artistic maturity either with transcendence, degeneration, or irrelevance. This volume looks to the non-representational arts of music, abstract painting and sculpture, and architecture for fresh insight into t...

This fascinating book explores the history, techniques and cultural significance of medieval aquamanilia, cast metal objects used to pour water for hand washing in religious and secular contexts. Usually created in appealing animal or human forms, aq...

This Handbook provides a practical, straightforward guide to the theory and practice of discipline-based art education. This comprehensive approach to art education has transformed the way students create and understand art, it also offers opportunit...

This latest volume in the critically acclaimed Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series examines the force of art history's attrraction to particular objects and the corresponding rhythms of attachment and detachment that animate the discipline. In a...

Tool marks and joins, Cycladic and Daedalic styles, and kouroi and kanephoroi are among the many terms pertaining to the study of classical stone sculpture that are succinctly described in this latest addition to the "Looking At" series. Presented in...

Le Corbusier's buildings have long been part of the inalienable canon of twentieth-century architecture. But Le Corbusier's work as a book designer and author is scarcely known. He planned and realized over 40 books in his lifetime. Architect of Book...

Three years after the founding of the Grolier Club in 1884, the club's Library Committee was established with a mission "to gather together for the use of the members all the standard bibliographical works, as well as books relating to the art of pri...

During the years of the Great Depression in America, modernist designers developed products and lifestyle concepts intended for middle-class, not elite, consumers. In this remarkable book, Kristina Wilson coins the term "livable modernism" to describ...

Silvia Bنchli (1956) has become one of the most successful Swiss artists of her generation. This publication was developed with the artist, and is the first comprehensive survey of her output. Silvia Bنchli's art makes us feel unsure of ourselves. It...

Leonardo's writings on painting – among the most remarkable from any era – were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also...