This groundbreaking study interrogates a rich and diverse repertoire of images from all over the world to answer the fundamental question: how are the meanings of images conveyed, recognized and accepted?
Published to accompany the first museum exhibition of scenic daguerreotypes, this beautiful catalogue showcases a private collection of extremely rare outdoor views, offering a unique insight into mid-nineteenth century America as it started to become an industrial power.
Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, this catalogue presents an extraordinary group of masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection that are shown outside Winterthur for the first time in the history of the institution.
Published on the occasion of the 2025 grand reopening of The Frick Collection following its renovation, this book looks at the project from inception to completion, and at the architectural history of one New York’s most beloved art institutions.
Spanning fifteen years of expeditions first begun in 1975, this captivating, fully illustrated memoir takes the reader on a journey into the heart of the Kalahari Desert and records,... Læs mere
This ambitious new catalogue highlights the erotic and playful sculpture of Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams, foregrounding their shared commitment to using abstract form to ask important questions about fluid sexuality, bodies and humour.
This is an important and ground-breaking study of rare Siamese manuscripts of two kinds, biological and cosmological.
This book presents an in-depth examination of a singular medieval ivory casket known as the ‘Baird Casket’.
The Regency was a period of crucial importance in the history of collecting Old Master paintings in England.
This monumental book is the first monograph devoted to the Sienese artist Lorenzo di Pietro, known as Vecchietta (1410–1480).
A fresh way of looking at the art and material culture of Ancient Egypt by going behind the scenes to focus on the artists and makers who produced a wide range of beautifully crafted objects.