Individual Artists, Art Monographs

Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of mod...

Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what t...

Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what t...

From impossible staircases to tessellated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (18981972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and ma...

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (18841920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His langu...

Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (14751564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in...

In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (19281962) declared that a new world calls for a new man. With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold ar...

A survey of the work of one of Chicagos most prolific artists. Edgar Miller (18991993) arrived in Chicago in 1917 and, over the next fifty years, e...

While earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist François Bouchers artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length ...

Hailed the Prince of the Impressionists, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the preceden...

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) not only stands as one of the most exceptiona...

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) not only stands as one of the most exceptiona...

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) not only stands as one of the most exceptiona...

The first book in English on Maruja Mallo, this volume is an insightful examination of the life and work of this seminal artist of the Spanish avan...

A raw collection of photos and stories spotlighting the artistic process and dangerous adventures of a Chicago graffiti artist as he creates unspon...

In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmon...

A mini art show of the celebrated artist's best-known and little-seen paintings, reproduced on stamps from around the world.  Exceptionally pr...

This book, a biography on Francis Bacon, is inspired by the friendship the author had with Bacon and based on records of the conversations that too...

Charles Baudelaires flâneur, as described in his 1863 essay The Painter of Modern Life, remains central to understandings of gender, space, and the...

Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book inv...

By uniquely treating Gerhard Richters entire oeuvre as a single subject, Darryn Ansted combines research into Richters first art career as a social...