History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

A conceptually innovative take on Jonas’ performances and installations Published in conjunction with the first major US museum show of Joan Jonas...

In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pret...

Inwelt by Maximilian Prüfer (b. 1986) is the continuation of the 2016 publication Brut and encompasses the various series of works by the artist in...

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: the man with the glasses and the woman with the red hair. Each one was born on the same day in 1935, and this unusual ar...

The Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans consumed an...

The Situationist International were a group of anti-authoritarian, highly cultured, revolutionary artists whose energy and enragement fundamentally...

A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supremacyThe United States began as a slave society,...

In Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement’...

The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks f...

Das Buch führt von den russischen Avantgarden und ihrem Eintritt in die Sowjetpolitik zu den amerikanischen Künstlern, die 1989 Gesetzesentwürfe zu...

Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil t...

Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia approaches human rights issues from the perspective of artists and writers in global Asia. B...

This anthology of literary and dramatic works introduces writers from across Asia and the Asian diaspora. The landscapes and time periods it descri...

As we approach the bicentennial, in 2017, of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, there is considerable debate and confusion as to what he may, or may...

García Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish cont...

This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to...

Rewrites our understanding of the last 50 years of Chicana/o cultural production. Chicana/o Remix casts new light not only on artists—such as Sand...

This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to...

Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with ...

The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave ...

The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave ...

Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print brings together established and emerging scholars of early modern print culture to ...