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THE GARDENS OF THE BRITISH WORKING CLASS

This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted ...

RUSCHA: EDWARD RUSCHA. CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE WORKS ON PAPER , VOLUME 1 1956- 1976

This highly anticipated book--the first in a series of three--comprehensively chronicles the first two decades of Ed Ruscha's (b. 1937) work on paper, which ...

KAHN: THE HOUSES OF LOUIS KAHN**

Louis Kahn (1901-1974), one of the most important architects of the postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works, including the Kimbell ...

IRELAND AND THE PICTURESQUE : DESIGN, LANDSCAPE PAINTING, AND TOURISM, 1700-1840

That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted and manipulated during the long ...

ARCADIAN AMERICA : THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL TRADITION

Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the ...

S.J. PEPLOE

Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) was the eldest of the four artists popularly known as "The Scottish Colourists." Born in Edinburgh, he was drawn to ...

STIRLING: JAMES STIRLING : REVISIONARY MODERNIST

James Stirling was one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century. His formally inventive yet historically informed designs inspired a generation ...

BUILDING SEAGRAM

The Seagram Building rises up over New York's Park Avenue with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of ...

BLACK SQUARE. MALEVICH AND THE ORIGIN OF SUPREMATISM

Kazimir Malevich's painting "Black Square" is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in artistic culture at ...

SCHLEPPING THROUGH AMBIVALENCE: ESSAYS ON AN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURAL CONDITION

Chicago architect and iconoclast Stanley Tigerman has been called a 'design maven who can spit venom like a snake'. Though he is at times ...

CARO CLOSE UP

Accompanying the first United States retrospective of British sculptor Anthony Caro's work in almost 40 years, this collection places the prominent artist firmly within ...

CLOISTERS, THE. MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Home to an extraordinary collection of treasured masterworks, including the famed Unicorn Tapestries, The Cloisters is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval ...

CARSCAPES. THE MOTOR CAR, ARCHITECTURE, AND LANDSCAPE IN ENGLAND

.When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s, it was a luxury item with little practical purpose - drivers couldn't travel ...

JOHNS: JASPER JOHNS SEEING WITH THE MIND'S EYE

For more than sixty years, Jasper Johns has found new ways to explore how art creates meaning in the mind's eye. His most celebrated ...

DANCING AROUND THE BRIDE : CAGE, CUNNINGHAM, JOHNS, RAUSCHENBERG AND DUCHAMP

MAYNARD L. PARKER. MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM

As a prolific photographer for House Beautiful, Better Homes and Gardens, Architectural Digest, and Sunset magazine, Maynard L. Parker (1900-1976) was a pioneer in ...

KENT WEST AND THE WEALD. THE BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND

An expanded and fully revised edition of John Newman's classic survey of the buildings of West Kent, first published in 1969. Here is an ...

AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN. THE BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND

Ayrshire and Arran is an area of striking contrasts. Its landscape ranges from sand dunes to rolling pastures to moors. The local architecture is ...

ROTH: DIETER ROTH DIARIES

Dieter Roth (1930-1998) was an artist of astonishing breadth and diversity, producing graphics, drawings, paintings, sculptures, assemblages, and installation works involving sound recordings and ...

MARTIN: AGNES MARTIN

Gorgeously quiet in color and composition, Agnes Martins paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of ...