Art and Design

Recent movers and shakers in art and design.

Updated April 15, 2025
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Van Gogh and the end of nature
Lobel, Michael
Ebook
A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh's profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today   "Van Gogh has never seemed more relevant. This stands as my favorite book of the year in any genre...
Contact art and the pull of print
Roberts, Jennifer L.
Ebook
A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print In process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and screenprinting, every print is the record of a contact...
The architecture of urbanity designing for nature, culture, and joy
Chakrabarti, Vishaan
Ebook
From one of today's most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenges The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and...
Iconophages a history of ingesting images
Koering, Jérémie
Ebook
An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century Eating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, in the European and Mediterranean worlds, people have swallowed down frescoes,...
Written in water the ephemeral life of the classic in art
Gurstein, Rochelle
Ebook
A deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day
Drawing Nature The Creative Process of an Artist, Illustrator, and Naturalist
Feltner, Linda Miller.
Ebook
A visually stunning exploration of the artistic process by an award-winning nature artist Drawing Nature presents the creative process of an acclaimed nature artist, guiding readers from field sketches to finished art and demonstrating how science and the close...
Lucas Cranach from German myth to Reformation
Nelson, Jennifer
Ebook
A revealing new account of the life and work of this early modern German printmaker.   This captivating biography brings Lucas Cranach the Elder into the spotlight for the twenty-first century. The illuminating narrative unveils an artist whose vision...
Symbolism, Dada, Surrealisms Selected Writing of Mary Ann Caws
Caws, Mary Ann.
Ebook
A collection of highlights from Mary Ann Caws's long, highly distinguished career writing about literature, art, and modernism.   Throughout her long, highly distinguished career writing about literature and art, Mary Ann Caws has excavated, illuminated, and...
Dürer's knots early European print and the Islamic East
Dackerman, Susan
Ebook
An important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer's depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered by many to be among his most perplexing images. This confusion arises from the assumption that the artist and his northern...
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...
Mark Ryden : Yakalina Secrets
Ryden, Mark
Ebook
Mark Ryden's Yakalina Secrets is the wondrous second installment in the artist's incredible gallery of creatures.   Foreword by Takashi Murakami   In his Pacific Northwest studio during the isolation of COVID...

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