A major reevaluation of an iconic 20th-century American artist This comprehensive study of Grant Wood (1891–1942) is packed with extensive new scholarship and provides fresh insight into the car
A celebrated New York City painter's rollicking and vividly immediate account of his life amid the city's glamorous demimondes in their most vital era as an aspiring artist, roaring boy, dandy, cultur
Prepared in cooperation with the artist’s estate, Zao Wou-Ki: 1935–2010 features more than three hundred works and is the most complete monograph available on the artist. Born in Beijing, raised
This is an intimate and revealing biography of Agnes Martin, renowned American painter, considered one of the great women artists of the 20th and 21st Century. A resident of both New Mexico and New Yo
In this follow-up to the 2008 art book Robots and Donuts, vintage toys are paired with pastries to create fascinatingly bizarre paintings.This volume showcases San Francisco-based artist Eric Joyner's
Fifty paintings, reproduced in color, by an international array of contemporary artists, show the aptness and relevance of painting in an era of uncertainty.In an age of global instability, the threat
When Picasso became Picasso: the story of how an obscure young painter from Barcelona came to Paris and made himself into the most influential artist of the twentieth century.In 1900, an eighteen-year
A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travels Thomas Cole (1801–1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his gener
This handsome book explores the life and work of a little-known, immensely talented early Renaissance painter from Estonia This handsome volume is the first in English devoted to Michel Sittow (c
? Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) expressed in his work a fascination with the liminal worlds that underpin his figures and landscapes. His art echoes different styles and tradi
A new interpretation of the development of artistic modernity in eighteenth-century FranceThe Painter's Touch is a radical reinterpretation of three paradigmatic French painters of the eighteenth cent
Throughout his long and prolific career, Ray Stanford Strong (1905–2006) strove to capture the essence of the western American landscape. An accomplished painter who achieved national fame durin
Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895–1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Glu
This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displ
A richly illustrated, expansive mid-career survey of the stand-out American artist’s pioneering and influential work Since the early 1990s, Laura Owens (b. 1970) has challenged traditional
