Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. It is the most democratic form of art-making, requiring nothing more than the stub of a pencil, piece of chalk or ink brush, and a surface. Our prehistoric ancestors drew with natural pigments on the walls of caves, and every subsequent culture has practised drawing—whether on papyrus, parchment, or paper. Virtually all artists have used drawing as part of the creative process. However, by stepping back and surveying the long history of drawing, Susan Owens reveals an alternative history of art. While art forms such as painting and sculpture have been shaped heavily by money and influence, drawing has always offered exceptional creative latitude. Drawing is where we can encounter the artist at his or her most unguarded. The Story of Drawing offers a glimpse over artists’ shoulders as they work, think, plan, innovate, and either scrutinise the world or retreat into their imaginations.
The first biography of Gilbert Spencer, recounting the life and career of a long-overlooked twentieth-century British artist
This latest volume in The Met’s acclaimed How to Read series explores the meaning of portraiture across time and cultures—from funerary masks to realism to abstraction
A major new examination of the Indian Ocean, revealing how the region has become a hotly contested geopolitical flashpoint
The story of William Waters, Black street performer in Regency London, and how his huge celebrity took on a life of its own
A close look at failed U.S. policies in the Middle East, offering a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in the region
The most up-to-date account of the Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterwork
The oboe is an instrument with a long and rich history. In this book two distinguished oboist-musicologists trace that history from its beginnings to the 21st century, discussing how and why the oboe evolved, what music was written for it, and which players were prominent.
An authoritative new two-volume publication cataloguing the German paintings before 1800 in the collection of the National Gallery, London
The extraordinary story behind Degas’s groundbreaking painting of the biracial circus performer Miss La La
Highlighting the creativity and symbolism of covered portraits, this volume explores an intriguing but largely unknown aspect of Italian and Northern European Renaissance art
A reminder that war is not always, or even generally, good for long-term growth
A renowned scientist and environmental advocate looks back on a life that has straddled the worlds of science and politics
An incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of a village in Vietnam
A groundbreaking publication on the Caribbean-born French Neoclassical painter Guillaume Lethière and his extraordinary, yet largely unexamined career
One of our most influential political theorists offers a boundary-breaking—and liberating—perspective on the meaning of life in the internet age
The essence of Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color in a format that engages learners of all ages and levels and encourages a hands-on approach
The first comprehensive account of Charles J. Connick, America’s most innovative and influential stained glass artist working in the first half of the twentieth century
The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries
A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in the debates over Black men and the violence of racism
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
The best essays from America’s premier cultural historian
A scintillating account of the cultural freedom and empowerment that American women experienced as leaders in the avant-garde scene in early twentieth-century Paris
A new history of postwar painting that explores how the desire to look backward shaped some of the period’s most radical artmaking
A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh’s profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today
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