A new approach to the work of self-taught artist James Castle that focuses on how his drawings and practice resonate with earlier masters
This book is devoted to the birth of a new approach to the evolution worldwide of abstraction in painting from 1980 until today.
A reassessment of self-taught artist William Edmondson, exploring the enduring relevance of his work
An examination of the innovative portrayals of industry and leisure created by five avant-garde artists working at Asnières in the late nineteenth century
The first book-length examination of the clay models and creative process of the preeminent neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova
A revelatory study exploring wood’s many material, ecological, and symbolic meanings in the religious art of medieval Germany
A timely examination, through the dual lenses of culture and climate change, of the profound ecological awareness that has characterized Islamic visual traditions
A virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea
A novel exploration of the idea of nonlinear time and its place at the heart of modern art and architecture
The first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation
Hugh Pearman deftly guides us through the compelling stories of 55 buildings that explain our world, from antiquity to the present day
A fresh look at how Christianity and Judaism became two distinct religions through the parting of their intellectual traditions