Art History

A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. ''As devourable as a thriller......

The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in fav...

A woman once rang me up and said, Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles, you have given such a striking illustr...

A groundbreaking collaboration between the National Galleries of Scotland, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Finnish National Gallery, this ...

J.M.W. Turner's elegant pencil sketches and watercolours of Venice are so poignant and evocative that the gentle sound of water lapping against gon...

Delve deeper into the work of the intriguing and iconic artist Aubrey Beardsley with this beautiful reissue of his classic 1897 illustrated book, c...

A groundbreaking comparison of two titans of American art Winslow Homer (18361910) and Frederic Remington (18611909) represent a distinct artistic ...

An engaging look at one of the central motifs in the work of the great 19th-century painter Widely considered Britains greatest painter, Joseph Mal...

The untold story of a radical approach to the teaching of sculpture at Saint Martin''s School of Art. In 1969, four tutors at Saint Martin''s Sc...

A beautiful overview of fascinating paintings of the classical world and the Holy Land by a beloved American artist  Frederic Church (18261900), on...

A new look at George Caleb Bingham''s iconic river paintings and his creative process in making them George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Miss...

Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight,...

A celebration of the work and lives of women artists who shaped the art world of 19th-century Paris In the second half of the 19th century, Paris a...

This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art-the radically innovative decade of the ...

A definitive new biography, deftly interweaving an account of Turner''s early life with profound scholarly and aesthetic appreciation of his work A...

From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book...

This book uses the busts on the Chantrey Wall in the Ashmolean Museum to give an introduction to the remarkable career of Francis Chantrey (1781-18...

A newly expanded edition of the defining book on one of French Romanticisms most influential and elusive paintersEugène Delacroix (17981863) was a ...

A fascinating exploration of the time Winslow Homer spent in England and how it influenced his art Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is widely regarded as ...

Turner's sketchbooks were private things which he kept to himself. They might live for some time, rolled up in his coat pockets or travel bags, to ...