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Highlighting the central role of drawing throughout Ruth Asawa's career, this book's essays illuminate diverse aspects of her drawing practice with reproductions of more than one hundred works, many never before published.

An exploration of Edgar Degas’s laundress works and their significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women’s work in the nineteenth century

This fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the “monstrous” themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane, in works from the past decade

This book explores the works of one of Sweden's most esteemed artists, Hilma af Klint, alongside others in her artistic circle - and examines their inspirational influence on contemporary artists working today. Swedish Ecstasy tells the story of renowned Swedish artist Hilma af Klint and her artistic circle as the country sought to reconcile religious beliefs with scientific advances at the turn of the 20th century. While Sweden has often been characterized as a Protestant nation of great engineers and entrepreneurs, the country's spiritual life has long been governed by a less official current, visible in its art and literature. In the early 20th century, mysticism and esoteric speculation ran through the works of some of Sweden's most important artistic and literary figures. This book explores these mystic visions and their meaning with this intellectual and spiritual milieu. Contemporary artists Cecilia Edefalk, Carsten Höller, Christine Ödlund, Daniel Youssef, and Lars Olof Loeld contribute essays that show how these artworks continue to inspire today.

A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism

A searing testament to poetry's power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan

A groundbreaking exhibition catalogue of Native, First Nations, Metis, and Inuit photography from the nineteenth century to the present day

A landmark publication on the drawings of one of the giants of the Italian Renaissance

This lavishly illustrated exploration of fashion designer Gaby Aghion's life, career, and legacy at the French fashion house Chloé features seventy years of clothing and designs along with recollections from designers Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney, and others.

"A stunning exploration of the vital links between Claude Monet's Impressionism and the time technologies that helped define modernity in the nineteenth century. Monet's Minutes is a revelatory account charting the relationship between the works of Claude Monet (1840-1926)-founder of French Impressionism and one of the world's best-known painters-and the modern experience of time. Andrâe Dombrowski illuminates Monet's celebration of instantaneity in the context of the late nineteenth-century time technologies that underwrote it. Monet's version of Impressionism demonstrated an acute awareness of the particularly modern pressures of time, but until now scholars have not examined the histories and technologies of time and timekeeping that informed Impressionism's major stylistic shifts. Arguing that the fascination with instantaneity rejected the dulling cultures of newly routinized and standardized time, Monet's Minutes traces the evolution of Monet's art to what were then seismic shifts in the shape of time itself. In each chapter, Dombrowski focuses on the connections between a set of Monet's works and a specific technology or experience of time, while providing the voices of period critics responding to Impressionism. Grounded in exceptional research and analyses, this book offers new interpretations of key works by Monet and a fresh perspective on late nineteenth-century art, society, and modern temporality"--

Robert Frank's and Todd Webb's parallel 1955 projects to photograph America are considered in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture

This no-holds-barred narrative of the failure of conservation in northern New England's forests envisions a wilder, more equitable, lower-carbon future for forest-dependent communities

A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler

An expansive new study that explores the wide breadth of Italian painting in the fifteenth century

An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history

An engaging introduction to the cutting-edge discipline of experience design for students and practitioners in creative fields, including architecture, product design, gaming, exhibition design, and performance

An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success

Birds, hormones, and extraordinary behavior: The story of the tiny but mighty golden-collared manakin of Panama

A compelling new history of the EU and the people who sought to shape and challenge it—from Maastricht to today

An absurdist comedy and fifteenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, exploring family, religion, identity, desire, and beauty in Korean American culture

Michael Haas sensitively records the experiences of the composers who fled the Nazis, escaping Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. Haas traces the distinctive contribution these composers made to the twentieth-century soundscape?and offers a moving record of the incalculable effects of war on culture.

An original and provocative exploration of the relationship between contemporary art, politics, and activism

A compelling and innovative exploration of how animals shaped the birth of natural history and its ecological afterlives

A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain

Introduces a previously unpublished major collection of Islamic, Modern, and Contemporary Middle Eastern art, notable for its exceptional range and breadth from earliest times to the present

A leading film critic on the evolving world of streaming media and its impact on society

How democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favor--and why democracies are losing

A fresh look at the world's water crises, and the existing and emerging solutions that can be used to solve them

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why the movement continues to resonate

The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman