- 100 Details
- Kenneth Clark
- 100 Details offers Clark's personal responses to details of paintings in the National Gallery in London. The result resembles a walk through a glorious art collection with a critic of astounding eye and intellect at our side.
- Paperback 1990
- Art Matters
- Peter de Bolla
- In the face of a great work of art, we so often stand mute, struck dumb. Is this a function--perhaps the first and foremost--of aesthetic experience? Or do we lack the words to say what we feel? Countering current assumptions that art is valued only according to taste or ideology, Peter de Bolla gives a voice--and vocabulary--to the wonder art can inspire. Working toward a better understanding of what it is to be profoundly moved by a work of art, he forces us to reconsider the importance of art works and the singular nature and value of our experience of them.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003
- Bathers, Bodies, Beauty
- Linda Nochlin
- Linda Nochlin explores the contradictions and dissonances that mark experience as well as art. Her book confronts the issues posed in representations of the body in the art of impressionists, modern masters, and contemporary realists and post-modernists. In many ways a personal book, Bathers, Bodies, Beauty brings to bear a lifetime of looking at, teaching, talking about, wrestling with, loving, and hating art to reveal and complicate the visceral experience of art.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Berenson Archive
- Compiled by Nicky Mariano
- Hardcover 1965
- Bernard Berenson
- Ernest Samuels
- Who was Bernard Berenson, this supreme connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting? The answers are to be found in the day-to-day record of his life as he lived it.Samuels, having spent twenty years studying the thousands of letters and other manuscripts, presents his story in absorbing detail.
- Hardcover
- Bernard Berenson
- Ernest Samuels
- Critic, arbiter of taste, renowned authority on Renaissance painting and oracle to millionaire art collectors, Bernard Berenson was the most formidable presence in the art world for more than thirty years. Four decades of his life are unfolded in this compelling book.
- Hardcover 1979 / Paperback
- The Compelling Image
- James Cahill
- Paperback
- The Dada Painters and Poets
- Robert Motherwell, Editor
- Foreword by Jack D. Flam
- The Dada Painters and Poets offers the authentic answer to the question "What is Dada?" This incomparable collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations was prepared by Robert Motherwell with the collaboration of some of the major Dada figures: Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Max Ernst among others. Here in their own words and art, the principals of the movement create a composite picture of Dada--its convictions, antics, and spirit.
- Paperback
- David to Delacroix
- Walter Friedlaender
- This renowned study follows the evolution of French painting from the Revolution through the Napoleonic era. Beginning with David's revolutionary classicism, Friedlaender scrutinizes the work of early-nineteenth-century artists against the background of their times.
- Paperback
- De Stijl 1917-1931
- H. L. C. Jaffé
- Here is the essential book on De Stijl, one of the longest lived and most influential of modern art movements. H. L. C. Jaffé recounts the history of this abstract movement, explains its artistic goals and practice, delineates its utopian ideology, and describes the special qualities of De Stijl painting, sculpture, architecture, and design.
- Paperback 1986
- Enigma Variations
- Richard Price
- Sally Price
- In a steamy colonial city, an eccentric Frenchman offers for sale an extraordinary collection of primitive art. The two anthropologists called in to appraise the pieces for the national museum quickly find themselves in a world where the boundaries of authenticity and deception blur in the tropical heat.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1998
- Friends of Interpretable Objects
- Miguel Tamen
- Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, he suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a life but also a society.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2004
- His Other Half
- Wendy Lesser
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1992
- The History of Surrealism
- Maurice Nadeau
- Richard Howard, Translator
- Roger Shattuck
- The History of Surrealism, first published in French in 1944 and in English in 1965, has become a classic. It is both lucid and authoritative--by far the best overall account of this complex movement. Nadeau traces the evolution of Surrealism, bringing to life its many internal debates about politics and art. He relates the movement to its intellectual and artistic environment. And he provides the statements and manifestos of Breton, Aragon, Tzara, and others.
- Paperback
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I, From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire
- Ladislas Bugner, General Editor
- Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow
- Jean Vercoutter
- Jean Leclant
- Frank M. Snowden
- Jehan Desanges
- Ladislas Bugner
- Hardcover
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II, Part 1, From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood
- Ladislas Bugner, General Editor
- Jean Devisse
- Jean Marie Courtes
- Hardcover
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II, Part 2, Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World (Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century)
- Ladislas Bugner, General Editor
- Jean Devisse
- Michel Mollat
- Hardcover
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV, Part 1,
- Ladislas Bugner
- Hardcover
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV, Part 2,
- Ladislas Bugner
- Hardcover
- Interpreting Cézanne
- Sidney Geist
- Hardcover 1988
- John Singleton Copley
- Jules David Prown
- Hardcover 1966
- Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets
- James Rubin
- A sense of stillness and silence pervades Manet's painting. It is this silence that James Rubin explores in this book. Applying J. L. Austin's notion of the performative, which bridges the gap between language and action or between the painted image and its social effect, Rubin goes beyond past theorists to describe the curious ways in which Manet's paintings act upon us.
- Paperback 1995 / Hardcover
- Painting outside the Lines
- David W. Galenson
- In a work that brings new insights, and new dimensions, to the history of modern art, David Galenson examines the careers of more than 100 modern painters to disclose a fascinating relationship between age and artistic creativity.
- Hardcover 2002
- A Principality of its Own
- Edited by José Luis Falconi
- Edited by Gabriela Rangel
- Foreword by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
- This collection of critical essays examines distinctive moments of the Americas Society's visual art program and its impact on the formation of a Latin American market in the United States. Founded in 1965, the Americas Society has played a pivotal role in Latin American art, from Pre-Colombian to modernism. A Principality of Its Own explores the achievements and experiments that modeled the institution from the Cold War to the present.
- Paperback 2007
- Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 53/54, Spring and Autumn 2008
- Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
- Paperback 2008
- Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder
- Elizabeth K. Helsinger
- Helsinger here explores the profound changes Ruskin induced in the way nineteenth-century viewers looked at nature and at art. She argues that Ruskin transformed the artist- or poet-oriented aesthetics of romanticism into a beholder- or reader-oriented criticism. Combining critical attention to Ruskin's prose with her own wide-ranging scholarship, Helsinger places Ruskin's perceptual reforms within previously unexplored intellectual and cultural contexts.
- Hardcover 1982
- Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926
- Walter Benjamin
- Marcus Bullock, Editor
- Michael W. Jennings, Editor
- This first volume shows that even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting, and much more. He is as compelling and insightful when musing on riddles or children's books as he is when dealing with weightier issues such as symbolic logic or epistemology.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 2004
- Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 1, 1927-1930
- Walter Benjamin
- Series edited by Michael W. Jennings
- Series edited by Howard Eiland
- Series edited by Gary Smith
- In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, Benjamin emerged as the most original public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts. In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.
- Paperback 2005
- Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 2, 1931-1934
- Walter Benjamin
- Series edited by Michael W. Jennings
- Series edited by Gary Smith
- Series edited by Howard Eiland
- Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts. Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, "Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.
- Paperback 2005
- Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940
- Walter Benjamin
- Edited by Howard Eiland
- Edited by Michael W. Jennings
- This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. At their core is the question of how art adapts to survive and thrive in an age of violence and repression. The book is remarkable for its inquiry into the nature of "the modern," for its ideas about the transmogrification of art and the radical discontinuities of history, and for its examples of humane life and thought in the midst of barbarism.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006
- The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
- Walter Benjamin
- Edited by Michael W. Jennings
- Edited by Brigid Doherty
- Edited by Thomas Y. Levin
- Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general. This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four versions of the “Work of Art” essay—the one that addresses the utopian developments of the modern media. The collection tracks Benjamin’s observations on the media as they are revealed in essays on the production and reception of art; on film, radio, and photography; and on the modern transformations of literature and painting.
- Paperback 2008
- Working Space
- Frank Stella
- Here is a rare opportunity to view painting through the discerning eyes of one of the world's foremost abstract painters. Stella uses the crisis of representational art in sixteenth-century Italy to illuminate the crisis of abstraction in our time. Professionals, students, collectors and all lovers of art will find Stella's non-traditional evaluations of the masters' work controversial and his fresh concepts wonderfully provocative.
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1986