Amy Sherald’s work, life, and significance for American art, as revealed in her powerful figurative paintings of Black subjects
An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success
The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament
An exploration of southern China’s ceramic industry and its links to Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, and beyond via the maritime trade
Surveying three decades of the British painter Cecily Brown’s career, with its vibrant mixture of gestural expression, canonical and pop references, and subversive themes
A spectacular study of calligraphy, the most esteemed form of visual and textual expression in the Islamic world, through a storied collection of Qur’an manuscripts
A gorgeous look at popular illustrators of the Jazz Age and their influential role in the dynamic culture of the 1920s and ’30s
An examination of shifting notions of identity in modern-day Germany—and the diverse artists challenging conventional meanings of “Germanness” today
A compilation of Latinx photography from the US-Mexico border that foregrounds the complexity and struggle of Latinx borderland communities in the face of widespread fearmongering
A chronological illustrated analysis of fifty-eight years of work by the collective Art & Language
This volume discusses several previously little-known masterpieces by Jacopo Bassano and reconsiders the remarkable success of his workshop located outside the artistic center of Venice.