Art and Design

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Updated December 1, 2025
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Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men
Paper Book
This richly illustrated volume paints a complex portrait of Caillebotte, masculinity, and identity in late nineteenth-century France. More than any other French Impressionist, painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) observed and depicted the many men in his life,...
Caspar David Friedrich : The Soul ofNature
Paper Book
A richly illustrated volume surveying the career of Caspar David Friedrich, the German landscape painter whose emotionally profound visions of nature are among the most iconic works of Romantic art   The paintings and drawings of the nineteenth-century German...
Surrealism
Paper Book
Official book accompanying the blockbuster centenary celebration of Surrealism at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; 4 September 2024 - 13 January 2025. This essential catalogue explores the legacy of the art movement that changed everything. "Organisers say it is an unprecedented...
Gertrude Abercrombie : The WholeWorld Is a Mystery
Paper Book
A sumptuously produced retrospective on the beloved and under-published Chicago-based Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, the "queen of the bohemian artists" Published with Carnegie Museum of Art and Colby College Museum of Art. This book is the definitive scholarly volume on...
Leonardo Da Vinci : an untraceable life
Campbell, Stephen J.
Ebook
How our image of the Renaissance's most famous artist is a modern myth Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his extensive writings, yet...
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence
Paper Book
Stunning treasures from the dynasty that created the Taj Mahal are showcased in this lavish book. The Great Mughals presents, for the first time, the opulent, internationalist culture of Mughal Hindustan in the age of its greatest emperors: Akbar (r. 1556...
Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art
Paper Book
The first monograph in over 70 years on the celebrated female protagonist of Dutch floral painting Winner of Gold Medal in Art from the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Awards. Winner of the ARLIS/NA 2024 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award. At the end of the 17th...
Art in a State of Siege
Koerner, Joseph Leo.
Ebook
An art historical epic for dangerous times What do artworks look like in extreme cases of collective experience? What signals do artists send when enemies are at the city walls and the rule of law breaks down, or when a tyrant suspends the law to attack from inside? Art in...
Nazi-era provenance of museum collections : a research guide
Schuhmacher, Jacques
Ebook
The first comprehensive guide written in English on how to research the Nazi-era provenance of museum collections since the publication of the AAM Guide to Provenance Research. When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility...
The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture
Carroll, Noël.
Ebook
Comprised of 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind. The editors have organized the chapters helpfully across eight parts: I:...
Slavery & the invention of Dutch art
Fowler, Caroline O.
Ebook
In Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art, Caroline Fowler examines the fundamental role of the transatlantic slave trade in the production and evolution of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Whereas the sixteenth-century image debates in Europe engaged with crises around the representation of...
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
Paper Book
An expansive look at more than a century of Pan-Africanist art and the ways it embodies the movement's principles and global ambitions   Since the term Pan-Africanism was coined around 1900, the movement's promise has been to foster liberation and solidarity for...

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