Exploring the fascinating lives of four gay contemporaries, The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home traces the advent of professional interior decoration in America against the backdrop of the homes these men created for themselves. All now public museums, these fascinating sites not only reflect the intimate lives of their ......
Described in The New York Times as the greatest art historian America ever produced, Meyer Shapiro was both a close friend to many of the famous artists of his generation and a scholar who engaged in public debate with some of the major intellectuals of his time. This volume synthesizes his prolific career for the first time, ......
The arts drove a seismic cultural shift in mid-twentieth-century Tunis, as women entered ateliers and workshops previously dominated by men and as collaborations across art schools destabilized the boundary between art and craft. This volume uses the “Tunisian École”—a configuration of artists, art students, professors, ......
In this examination of the rise of formalism in the visual arts, Sam Rose uses a close contextual study of Roger Fry and British art writing from 1900 to 1939 to rethink how ideas about form influenced modernist culture and the movement's significance to art history today.
Throughout his life, Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was a prolific and creative writer. Correspondent to many, his unpublished letters, selected and extracted here for the first time (along with published writings), reveal fascinating insight into significant events and encounters at various stages of the artist's career, while also demonstrating ......
In The Icon and the Square, Maria Taroutina examines how the traditional interests of institutions such as the crown, the church, and the Imperial Academy of Arts temporarily aligned with the radical, leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century through a shared interest in the ......
Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States
Explores the formation of public and private collections of Spanish Colonial and modern Latin American art throughout the United States, and the impact of the ever-changing political landscape of Latin American countries.
SHARE FRAMA Case Studies contains 50 pieces of artwork that explores the design from the Frama Studio. Following the success of our previous volumes of SHARE, this instalment continues to combine high quality prints on perforated pages with captivating imagery. Each page presents some of Frama's finest projects work, along with information about ......
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on famous artists, sculptors, architects, patrons, and other historical figures, and events.
