A thought-provoking, visual feast, which presents a diverse range of objects to build emotional bridges with the viewer within a social history context.
A valuable contribution to the field of 19th- and early 20th-century American art with key works by a range of American artists.
A wonderful range of art objects from Byzantium and Mamluk Egypt during the crusading periods, which inform debates about East and West interaction today.
Determined explores 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity.
A study of the impact of Austrian-born architect and designer Joseph Urban (1872-1933) on the development and acceptance of American Modernism through the story of one of his last commissions, the Art Deco bedroom he created for the teenage Elaine Wormser.
A major volume on the life and work of John Leslie Breck (1860-1899), one of the founders of the American Impressionist style.
A fascinating history of illuminated manuscripts within the Holy Roman Empire.
"An essay by Xavier F. Salomon, Frick Curator, paired with a contribution by author Francine Prose bring to life one of Titian's most personal and revealing portraits. Author of lives of saints, scurrilous verses, comedies, tragedies, and innumerable letters, Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) attained considerable wealth and influence, in part through literary flattery and blackmail. Little is known of his early years, but by 1527 he had settled permanently in Venice. Among Aretino's friends and patrons were some of the most prominent figures of his time, several of whom gave him gold chains such as the one he wears in this portrait. He was on intimate terms with Titian, who painted at least three portraits of him. Here the artist conveys his friend's intellectual power through the keen, forceful head and his worldliness through the solid, weighty mass of the richly robed figure."--Amazon.com
The first volume to bring the ground-breaking career of German-born modernist artist Winold Reiss (1886-1953) to light, focusing on his work in New York.
Presents an extensive history of the Eyre family of Chesapeake Bay, from the 17th through the 21st century, offering a rare and fascinating insight into the preservation of a family home.
The first volume to examine how craft artists and designers apply scientific and mathematical concepts to creating their work
This is the story of a garden, Bellevue House, in Newport, Rhode Island, that speaks to us about history and memory, inspiration and motivation.
"Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 features four remarkable artists who use materials of the earth-indigo, glass, paper, metal-to explore our relationship with nature and help us understand our place in a world increasingly chaotic and divorced from our physical landscape. Textile artist Rowland Ricketts farms his own indigo, beginning his practice not with dyeing or weaving cloth but with planting seeds. Many of his works incorporate participation from non-artists and strategic exposure of cloth to light, revealing relationships between nature, people, and the passage of time. Lauren Fensterstock draws on the natural world to find metaphors that get at the root of why we do what we do. In a site-specific installation for the Renwick, Fensterstock transforms the galleries with meticulously crafted comets and clouds, encrusted in baroque patterns of obsidian and Bohemian cut glass, that hover above a seductive yet ominous landscape. Debora Moore's work in glass is deeply informed by her own study of nature, having traversed the globe in search of flora, mainly orchids, in situ. Her installation of four human-size flowering glass trees are evocative both for their remarkable detail and beauty and for their ability to elicit deep emotion. Timothy Horn, best known for extravagant wall pieces made from cast metals, crystal, and blown and mirrored glass, emphasizes our complicated relationship with nature by taking inspiration from both highly stylized seventeenth-century jewelry patterns and nineteenth-century studies of natural forms. Throughout the essays, authors Emily Zilber, Nora Atkinson, and Stefano Catalani explore questions not just at the core of craft, but vital to our present moment. They reveal how each artist uses nature as a guide, partner, adversary, ward, and inspiration. Begun in 2000, the Renwick Invitational is a biennial series designed to celebrate artists deserving of wider recognition. Forces of Nature is the ninth installment in the series. Other titles in the Renwick Invitational series include Disrupting Craft (2018), Visions and Revisions (2016), History in the Making (2011), and Staged Stories (2009)"--
Tells the fascinating story of how, and why, 202 of the world's most iconic artworks toured the USA after World War II.
The first in-depth exploration of the art and history of the kimono in Japan, from the perspective of one of the country's oldest and most prestigious kimono houses still in operation today.
A beautifully illustrated survey of five centuries of art from the collections of one of America's leading museums, now updated to include new acquisitions since 2007
The first major retrospective of the work of American abstract expressionist and action painter Norman Bluhm (1921-1998).
Explores the lasting legacy of the work of the French artist Eugene Louis Charvot, best known for his paintings of sun-filled North African street scenes and the French countryside.
A fascinating exploration of the inspiration behind, and development of, classically inspired sculpture and other ornamental wares in black basalt, the famous stoneware perfected by Josiah Wedgwood in 1768.
A major new illustrated volume on the visual diary of extraordinary artist and traveler Henriette, Baroness Hyde de Neuville, who lived and worked in America during the early nineteenth century.
The author presents a compelling story about the decline and rebirth of a 100-year-old garden.
Offers fresh insight into two exquisite masterworks by Pierre Gouthiere (1732-1813), celebrated gilder to the French kings.
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