Exhibition Catalogues & Specific Collections

The Swiss artist Johannes Itten (18881967) was not only a pioneering art theorist and a prominent teacher at the Bauhaus, but he also left an exten...

From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits ...

Clothes define people. A persons attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, persona...

The Centennial decade was an era of ambivalence, the United States still unresolved about the incomprehensible damage it had wrought over four year...

Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rea...

James Loeb (18671933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to America, where he was born and...

The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemens club with a singular remit to exhibit members art collections. Exhibit...

This beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina's contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, ...

This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciousl...

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (195053), this book shows the dynam...

Today, artists set about a contemplation of architecture with a heightened ecological and social interest. Their works often reflect in a playful a...

New paintings from Wiley that examine how nature is depicted and symbolized in Japanese art This striking volume presents a new body of work by Am...

A record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspri...

Fernándezs interactive steel installations contribute to the strong history of Venezuelan conceptual sculpture This is the first monograph for Ven...