- American Colonial Painting
- Waldron Phoenix, Jr. Belknap
- Hardcover
- 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
- Chinese Calligraphy
- Yee Chiang
- This is the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In nine richly illustrated chapters Chang explores the aesthetics and the technique of this art in which rhythm, line, and structure are perfectly embodied. He measure the slow change from pictograph to stroke to the style and shape of written characters by the great calligraphers. It is a superb appreciation of beauty in the movement of strokes and in the patterns of structure--and an inspiration to amateurs as well as professionals interested in the decorative arts.
- Paperback
- Degas
- Theodore Reff
- Paperback
- Fu Shan's World
- Qianshen Bai
- For 1,300 years, Chinese calligraphy was based on the elegant art of Wang Xizhi (A.D. 303-361). But the seventeenth-century emergence of a style modeled on the rough, broken epigraphs of ancient bronzes and stone artifacts brought a revolution in calligraphic taste. By the eighteenth century, this led to the formation of the stele school of calligraphy, which continues to shape Chinese calligraphy today. A dominant force in this school was the eminent calligrapher and art theorist Fu Shan (1607-1685). Because his work spans the late Ming-early Qing divide, it is an ideal prism through which to view the transformation in calligraphy.
- Hardcover 2003
- The Lyric Journey
- James Cahill
- Poetic paintings--works done in response to lyric poems or as pictorial equivalents to them--compose a major category of East Asian art. In this beautifully illustrated book James Cahill, looks at three exemplary traditions in this genre.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 2002
- Marbled and Paste Papers
- Facsimile Edition
- Rosamond B. Loring
- Introduction by Sidney E. Berger
- Edited by Hope Mayo
- Loring, author of Decorated Book Papers, was also a skilled maker of marbled and paste papers. Her recipe book has been preserved in the Rosamond B. Loring Collection of Decorated Papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University. This facsimile edition is accompanied by an essay by Sidney E. Berger commenting on the recipes and analyzing Loring's materials and techniques.
- Paperback 2008
- Political Landscape
- Martin Warnke
- Translated by David McLintock
- Little in the landscape remains untouched by human hands, and every touch, from the simplest ditch to the most intricate monument, reveals a political decision or design. This is how Martin Warnke, one of Germany's leading art historians, looks at landscape in this book, which leads to a new way of seeing nature as we have appropriated, represented, and transformed it over time. Covering nearly a thousand years and most of western Europe, he provides a compelling summary history of modern humanity's ill-fated attempt to master nature.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1996