With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood. Contents: Preface List of Illustrations 1. The Primacy of Absorption 2. Toward a Supreme Fiction 3. P...

This book features the life history and craft of four Alaska Native artists. As a group, the artists represent four different Native cultures and four different art forms: Nicholas Charles, Sr., a Yup'ik Eskimo known for his carved and painted wood m...

"A Guide to Mexican Art", a survey of more than twenty centuries of art, has a double purpose. It provides an ample version of one of the great national arts by a leading art historian, and it serves simultaneously as a practical guide to the art's o...