One of Europe's 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 ...
Nikolaus Pevsner described Berkshire as 'half home county, half West Country'. This revised and comprehensive guide follows its historic boundaries, including the large area ...
After attaining classic stature with palaces erected in the early 20th century, the American department store continued to evolve in ways that were influenced ...
Philip de László (1869-1937) was born into a humble Hungarian family in Budapest and rose to become the preeminent portrait artist working in Britain ...
This beautifully illustrated historical dictionary of landscape design vocabulary used in North America from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries defines a selection of ...
Widely regarded as one of the most important American painters of the twentieth century, Alice Neel is internationally recognized for her contributions to Abstract ...
In this handsome book, esteemed architectural historian Neil Levine investigates for the first time the complex history of representation - the use and meaning ...
In this brief yet comprehensive volume, distinguished architect and critic Richard Goy offers a convenient and accessible guide to the city's piazzas, palazzos, basilicas, ...
The paintings in the spectre campaign comprise two distinct categories. The first, a selection of small-scale oil on Masonite paintings, depicts two or three ...
In addition to presenting full-color reproductions of the selected artists' recent work, the curators have prepared a joint essay on the 2010 exhibition, and ...
This paperback edition is superb value - a lavishly illustrated record of a popular exhibition but also an excellent, accessible introduction to the twentieth-century's ...
