Throughout the history of the built environment there has been no more significant endeavor than the construction of houses of worship, which were once ...
Neo-avant-garde and postmodern movements have long been understood in terms of their re-working of modernism and a narrative emphasizing rupture and new beginnings. Compelling ...
The British architect James Frazer Stirling (1924-1992) stimulated impassioned responses among both supporters and detractors, and he continues to be the subject of fierce ...
The Chinati Foundation is widely considered one of the world's most important destinations for experiencing large-scale contemporary art. It was founded by Donald Judd ...
Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile, representative and immediately influential domestic architect of the late Victorian period in England. His training and ...
The first retrospective in the U.S. to feature German artist Blinky Palermo (1943-1977) includes more than 60 works, most of which have never before ...
This comprehensive Exhibition catalogue begins with a discussion of Hick's work as a pupil of Josef Albers while at Yale and features her miniature ...
For John Ruskin, one of the leading cultural critics of the nineteenth century, Venice represented his ideal of civic society, where culture, government and ...
In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific ...
One of Europes most influential contemporary artists, Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933) has persistently investigated and expanded the role of the spectator in art since ...
Through a unique blend of art, photography, film, and architecture, The Surreal House presents the individual dwelling as a place of mystery and wonder. ...
Presenting the first formulation of a central subject, this volume challenges major assumptions long held by Western art historians and provides new ways of ...
In pre-modern Europe, the architect built not merely with imagination, brick, and mortar but with time, using vast quantities of duration as the means ...
The first major book on this leading African American artist, Mark Bradford: You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You) features essays by distinguished authors who ...
Winner of the Golden Lion for the Best National Participation at the 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, the exhibition Bruce ...
Nikolaus Pevsner described Berkshire as 'half home county, half West Country'. This revised and comprehensive guide follows its historic boundaries, including the large area ...
