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Major new catalogue dedicated to Eric Fischl, one of the leading figurative painters working in the USA today.Contemporary artist Eric Fischl has been unwavering in his commitment to painting the human figure throughout his long career, revealing the body’s central role in determining social and individual experience. As the first major book on the artist in over a decade, this beautifully illustrated publication accompanies a new exhibition, Eric Fischl: Stories Told, in Phoenix, Arizona and includes early, well-known paintings and works on paper focused on the inhabitants of middle-class American suburbs with their social taboos, family secrets, toxic masculinity and unacknowledged privileges.Also featured are the recent poetically and revealingly titled series of paintings Late America, Presence of an Absence, and Complications of an Already Unfulfilled Life. These works were created in the contexts of the pandemic, political activism and division. They are darkly hued and, in a fluid, active style which conveys a greater sense of urgency, reflect both the challenges of our time and the artist’s experience and age.Featuring new and unpublished work, this book will be essential for Fischl’s many loyal fans, and all those interested in modern and contemporary figurative painting.

A celebration of the sumptuous diamonds, pearls, and gold of jewelry’s design renaissance in America and Europe during the Gilded Age.In the final decades of the nineteenth century, a new world order was written in diamonds, pearls, and gold. American fortunes, vast, liquid, and impatient, crossed the Atlantic in search of titles, culture, and craftsmanship. What they found on Paris’s Place Vendôme and London’s Bond Street changed jewelry forever.Accompanying an opulent, full-scale exhibition at the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, FL, this magnificent volume features jewels by Boucheron, Cartier, Tiffany & Co., Chaumet, Mellerio, and traces jewelry's transformation across six themes:The Dollar Princesses who funded the evolution of Place VendômeThe Pearl Wars that convulsed the luxury marketThe revolutionary lightness of the Garland StyleThe integration of jewelry and interior designThe idealized natural worldThe theater of social performance for which these objects were made

The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were characterised by profound social, intellectual and political change in France. The art world, centred in Paris, also witnessed remarkable transformations as artists experimented with bold, expressive styles – Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism – that soon joined the Western artistic canon.This splendid volume, refreshed with new artworks, feature masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European collection, marking France as the centre of international modernism from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Ranging in scale, subject and style, these paintings and sculptures were produced by the era’s leading artists, both French-born and others who studied and worked in France. Artists represented include Cézanne, Chagall, Courbet, Degas, Derain, Matisse, Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Rodin and Vuillard.Organised into four sections, the works in French Moderns exemplify the successive avant-garde movements that defined modern art in the 19th and 20th centuries, tracing a shift from naturalism to the rise of abstraction. The themes of ‘Landscape’, ‘Still Life’, ‘Portraits and Figures’ and ‘The Nude’ reveal illuminating comparisons and contrasts across time and mediums.This new revised and updated hardback edition is published to coincide with an exhibition touring the USA: Portland Art Museum, OR (June 8–Sept 15, 2024; Columbia Museum of Art, SC (Oct 5, 2024–Jan, 2025); Vero Beach Museum of Art, FL (Feb 1–June 22, 2025); Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL (Aug 5, 2025–Jan 4, 2026); Birmingham Museum of Art, AL (Jan 30–May 24, 2026).

Stunning collection of early prints, exploring how they transformed art, belief, power, and the spread of ideas.This richly illustrated volume offers fresh perspectives on iconic Renaissance and Baroque prints and their enduring impact on viewers. Featuring outstanding examples of over 100 prints by celebrated artists such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, and other Old Masters, the book explores how printmaking sparked imagination, deepened faith, and elicited desire across four centuries.The book also traces the technical evolution of print media and explores how prints became powerful tools of mass communication, fundamentally altering how ideas and knowledge spread. Its thematic focus reveals the striking ways prints shaped devotional practices, political critique, artistic self-promotion, and class- and gender-based identities in the pre-photographic world.

This stunning publication unearths the priceless scores at the heart of The Juilliard School’s unparalleled collection that has supported the education of performing artists for more than a century. Famed soprano Renée Fleming describes Juilliard School Library Music Manuscripts as a  "map to the treasure” of one of the world’s finest collections of musical manuscripts. This richly illustrated and elegantly designed book features masterpieces including the final manuscript of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with revisions, corrections and alterations by the composer; the autographed manuscript of the final scene of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro; an extensively worked and autographed manuscript of the first movement of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony; Stravinsky's published scores with his own annotations; and holographs of Ysaÿe’s violin sonatas.Delve into the amazing stories behind these unique manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs and first editions by Bach, Brahms, Schumann and others. The accompanying texts are written by scholars and performers who convey the manuscripts' importance to music scholarship and the history of the performing arts.

Glass: Sand, Ash, Heattells a multi-faceted story of scientific achievement, worldwide trade in objects and ideas, and, always, beautiful artistic expression.The New Orleans Museum of Art holds an extraordinary collection of glass, with nearly 5,000 works ranging from tiny ancient Egyptian amulets to large-scale contemporary works of conceptual sculpture and including nearly every moment of glass expression between. This richly illustrated survey presents different avenues of understanding and interpreting these works of art, bringing together essays by museum curators and conservators, as well as a glass artist, a foodways historian, a laboratory scientist, and a New Orleans Black Masking Mardi Gras Indian. Glass: Sand, Ash, Heat reveals human connection through glass, a material that embodies a rich historical exchange between technology and the arts.

The composer, songwriter and pianist George Gershwin was deeply connected to modern art. On the centenary of his masterpiece ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, this striking book appraises his legacy as an artist in his own right, as a collector and as an inspiration to other artists. Before his untimely death at age 38, Gershwin produced numerous paintings, drawings and photographs. He was also an avid collector of modern art: his collection was one of the most significant of his day, with pieces by Picasso, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Chagall, Noguchi, Siqueiros and others. More recently, Gershwin’s music also inspired artwork by Miguel Covarrubias, Arthur Dove, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol and many others. This beautifully designed volume appraises these three elements of Gershwin’s artistic influence – as artist, collector and inspiration – as well as featuring select ephemera and correspondence from his artistic circle. It offers a tour through Gershwin's multifaceted visual dimension, expanding our understanding of the composer, his music and his impact on American cultural history.

The first book to celebrate the miniature-scale model The Panorama of the City of New York.An awe-inspiring metropolis in miniature, The Panorama of the City of New York has achieved cult-like status with New Yorkers and serves as a locus of memory for visitors from around the globe. This is the first book to fully celebrate The Panorama, featuring accessible text and photographs of its conception, creation, and enjoyment.The Panorama was one of the most successful attractions at the 1964–65 World’s Fair, with millions enjoying what was billed as an indoor helicopter tour of New York. Comprising an area of 9,335 square feet and built to a scale of 1:1200 (where one inch equals 100 feet), the original 1964 mini city was updated multiple times before its last renovation in 1992. Within the 320 square miles of New York City represented on The Panorama, you can find 850,000 buildings, more than 100 bridges, and almost all of the city’s parks and streets.Now part of the permanent exhibition at the Queens Museum, the Panorama brings the magic of New York to life to thousands of visitors each year.

This sumptuous book reveals how discoveries of classical sculptures and frescoes in Pompeii and Herculaneum inspired artistic masterpieces created for the Spanish Bourbon Court in Naples during the eighteenth century. Ancient sculptures, frescoes and other archaeological finds discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius helped shape the artistic expression in Europe, particularly landscape paintings, sculpture, ceramics, furniture and portraits. These include images of the Bourbon royal family, and also detailed landscapes and cityscapes giving a glimpse into Naples at the time. Sculptures and frescoes from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, the villas at Stabiae and Cicero and the Temple of Isis at Pompeii are examined alongside the art by well-known eighteenth-century artists they influenced, including Angelica Kauffman, Anton Rafael Mengs and Antonio Joli.

Offering a new approach seen through a variety of frameworks, this groundbreaking publication reframes the narrative of American Art through the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.How might American art be experienced at this moment? Disrupting traditional presentations of art from the Americas and offering a new set of approaches to collection display and interpretation, this groundbreaking publication reframes 2,000 years of art drawn from the world-renowned holdings of the Brooklyn Museum.  Organized within a variety of innovative frameworks, such as “Trouble the Water,” “To Give Flowers,” “Several Seats,” and “Witness,” iconic artworks are grouped alongside never-before-exhibited works, all beautifully illustrated and to dazzling effects. Texts written by curators, community members, botanists, drag artists, and other thought partners highlight both the curatorial approach and the unique transdisciplinary conversations that can occur between objects. Prioritizing dialogue and engagement, this bold publication creates an accessible and inclusive experience of American Art that spans time, culture, nation, and medium.

The boundless positivity and radiant world of renowned street artist Mr Brainwash is captured in this vivid survey, now in a revised and extended paperback edition. Playful, colourful, with a hint of mischief, each work is a journey through his pop culture wonderland. Every surface in the world is a cloak-and-dagger canvas for Mr. Brainwash’s franchise of the mind. In 2006 Mr. Brainwash set aside his video camera and quickly became renowned in the burgeoning street art scene alongside Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Invader. Brought to wider attention by Banksy’s 2010 documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Mr. Brainwash’s massive solo art shows have attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors globally and his works have become desirable collector’s items.This first paperback edition is an updated version of the popular 2018 publication, with 16 extra pages showcasing the artist’s latest works – including giant Beverly Hills origami sculptures and the Mr. Brainwash Museum in Los Angeles. This rich selection is complemented with critical essays by art historians Eleanor Heartney and Donald Kuspit.

An Indigenous Futurist reimagining of landscape, addressing imperialism, ownership, and place.This beautifully illustrated volume is the first book to explore the work of contemporary Indigenous North American artist Andrea Carlson, accompanying the artist’s major solo exhibition at the Denver Art Museum (October 5, 2025–January 18, 2026).Using oral and archival research, as well as art historical and philosophical theory, Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe descent) creates multipanel landscapes on the themes of museum collection practices, consumption, possession, and repatriation. Her work addresses the colonial construction of landscape genre painting and imperial concepts of land ownership and connection to place.Through the lens of Indigenous Futurism, an artistic movement emphasizing the successful, sovereign presence of Indigenous people into the future, the works question human-centered biases and relationships to dominance and assimilation.

The Corcoran Gallery of Art was the first institution in the United States created specifically as an art museum. Founded in Washington, D.C., in 1869, the Corcoran remained a vital part of the city for nearly 150 years. After the museum closed in 2014, the National Gallery of Art took responsibility for the collection, acquiring over 9,000 of its works. Ranging from antiquities to contemporary works, the broad range of European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings, and photographs in the Corcoran Collection has immeasurably enriched the National Gallery’s holdings. This beautifully illustrated volume is the first to examine the legacy of the collection and its impact on the study and appreciation of art in the United States.

An ABC adventure through the American Southwest, filled with vibrant art and playful rhymes for young children and their families.Discover the alphabet through a whimsical exploration of the scenic American Southwest! This magical book highlights canyons, monsoons, hats, animals, insects, boots, cacti, sweet treats, and other desert imagery with playful rhyming couplets that kids will love.Southwest ABC features artworks from the collection of Phoenix Art Museum by well-known artists including Thomas Moran, Faith Ringgold, Charles Gaines, Elina Climent, Ed Mell, Tom Palmore, Mariana Yampolsky, and many others. This eye-catching learning resource inspires children to learn their letters, and practice imagination, critical thinking, and observational skills at home.

This richly illustrated volume features expressive paintings by three East Asian and Asian American painters whose lives were fundamentally shaped by the major conflicts of the twentieth century. Internationally recognized Hong Kong artist, Chao Shao-an, shaped modernist approaches to Chinese ink painting. Through the metaphorical subjects of bird-and-flower paintings, he ruminated on events from the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 to the return of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in 1997. Keisho Okayama, son of a high-ranking Japanese Buddhist priest, arrived in the United States with his family to help proselytize Buddhism, only to spend several formative childhood years incarcerated in a WWII internment camp. His large-scale paintings contemplate these and other deeply affecting experiences from his life. Vietnamese American painter Ann Phong’s work reflects on her escape from Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War, as well as the experiences of the Vietnamese immigrant community in the United States. Published to accompany a national traveling exhibition, this elegant book will be of interest anyone exploring conflict, trauma, and healing through art.

Tells the story of one man’s generous gift that formed a brilliant collection of Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Avant-Garde art.Counterpoint explores the vision of John M. Parker Jr., a prominent Texas art collector known for his patronage of minimalism, conceptualism, and other avant-garde art produced from 1970 onwards. Parker gifted his collections to the McNay Art Museum in 2017 and with a bequest in 2023.Parker's collection includes more than 160 prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, and sculptures, with well-known artists including Josef Albers, Alice Aycock, John Baldessari, Katharina Fritsch, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Agnes Martin, and Frank Stella, among others.Featuring much of Parker’s gift to the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, this richly illustrated catalogue highlights the experimental work of well-known twentieth-century artists. The essays examine the formation of a personal collection, as well broader artistic discussions on the importance of printmaking to major artists and the impact of the political landscape on art of the twentieth century.

A chromatic celebration of fabulous fashion. Colorwear immerses you in the power of color in fashion – as storytelling, mood, and creative expression – all drawn from the extraordinary fashion collection of Phoenix Art Museum.Organized into 13 color-themed chapters, this vibrant book examines how designers across eras and cultures transform fashion into wearable art. Drawing from the renowned Phoenix Art Museum collection, fashion curator Helen Jean contextualizes iconic garments within broader historical and cultural narratives. Fashion historians April Calahan and Cassidy Zachary, hosts of the podcast Dressed: The History of Fashion, contribute additional insights into standout pieces. From couture to ready-to-wear, shoes to accessories, Colorwear highlights the role of color as a powerful tool for storytelling, mood, and creative expression.Iconic garments, including Fortuny's Delphos gown and Warhol's 'Souper' Dress, mingle with other sartorial gems created by Chanel, Gaultier, Lagerfeld, Louboutin and Schiaparelli, among others.

Roaming Mexico is a captivating book of photographs by Laura Wilson that explore the people of the towns of Mexico's border regions, published to accompany a major exhibition at the Meadows Museum.Capturing the unique culture, grit, joy, and humanity of the towns of Mexico and the Texas border, this stunning book of photographs by Laura Wilson opens our eyes to a rarely seen part of the world. Intimate portrayals of village life, popular festivals, quinceañeras, cowboys, firebreathers, and captivating portraits illuminate a vibrant yet tenuous existence.The fascinating texts includes a conversation with the photographer that reveals her personal insights and experiences in the region. Featuring work drawn from 30 years of exploration in the area by the accomplished photographer, this fascinating volume is a valuable contribution to our understanding and awareness of an underappreciated way of life.

'The most complete survey of his lifetime of photography.' – The Guardian. With a camera as his backstage pass, Herman Leonard photographed the giants of jazz in their golden age, movie stars on set and on their travels to exotic places, the fashion world of Paris in the 1960s, and the inner sanctums of his beloved New Orleans.This exquisite book, published in a new edition with a beautiful updated cover, is the only full treatment of this extraordinary life and distinctive body of work and gives Leonard’s photographs the artistic recognition that they deserve. The greater part of the book consists of his legendary shots of musicians, but uniquely among volumes on Herman Leonard it presents the whole range of his work, including travel, war, celebrity, fashion, and nude photography, while there are also chapters on the images of his early and late periods. It includes rare portraits of the cultural icons of his day, such as Marilyn Monroe on an elephant in the circus, and Albert Einstein at his desk. He was a superb portrait photographer, having learned as a young apprentice to the great Yousuf Karsh of Ottawa.Above all, he is best known for his jazz images. In a fascinating essay, David Houston reveals how Leonard's friendships with jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington allowed him to capture the magical moments of the Harlem and Paris jazz clubs in the 1940s and 50s, using his unique command of cinematic lighting to capture their essence as performers. As Quincy Jones writes in the Foreword, 'When people think of jazz, their mental picture is likely one of Herman's.'

Explore how sacred art evolved in early Mexico, adapting to local cultures and artistic traditions.This beautifully illustrated book reveals the importance of saints in New Spain, a viceroyalty that was part of the Spanish Empire from 1521–1821, covering modern-day Mexico, Central America, and the US Southwest. In the late sixteenth century, Rome’s attempts to manage sanctity as an official process had a profound impact throughout Spain and the Spanish viceroyalties. Saintly devotions traveled to Mexico, and circulated within the vast territory as images or print, then to be transformed by New Spain’s own communities. Drawing on collections from Mexico and the United States, this book examines the role of images in the construction of the holy: these paintings, sculptures, and engravings routinely used to propagate, celebrate, and venerate saintly figures, and used in official beatification and canonization proceedings. The relationship between sanctity and the pictorial is a long, revered tradition that continues in the work of New Mexico’s santero artists today.

This extraordinary book celebrates this luminous jewel of a church which once again welcomes the Greek Orthodox faithful, serves as a memorial to all those who tragically lost their lives on 9/11, and provides a place of quiet reflection open to all. The original Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was founded in 1892 and sat at the foot of the World Trade Center in New York City. Tragically, the church was completely destroyed in the collapse of Tower Two during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Determined to rebuild, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese selected world-renowned architect Santiago Calatrava to recreate the church near the original site. Using marble from the same quarries as the Parthenon, Calatrava developed his plan from a wealth of Byzantine precedents for the church’s structure, including the famous Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The Shrine’s iconographic program was created by Bishop Joachim of Amissos (John A. Cotsonis) and brought to realization by the celebrated iconographer, Fr. Loukas of the Monastery of Xenophontos on Mount Athos. It is the only church in the United States whose complete iconography is painted by an Athonite monk. This luxurious volume, rich with stunning photography, is a comprehensive overview of the history, construction and iconography of the Shrine.

An arresting survey of photographic practice, drawn from the Eskenazi Museum of Art's extraordinary collection.Spanning from 1856 to 2017, this beautifully illustrated book includes iconic photographs by pioneers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, alongside contemporary innovators like Edward Burtynsky and Vik Muniz. Structured around five thematic chapters—ranging from motion and time to war, the body, industry, and nature—the book offers an expansive and enticing narrative of photography’s evolution in both form and function. Drawn from the well-known and prestigious collection of Lee Marks and John C. DePrez Jr. recently donated to the Eskenazi Museum of Art, the book is designed for a broad audience, with more than 100 beautifully reproduced plates, insightful essays, and a candid interview with the collectors that reflects on how photography has changed, both as a medium and a market.

From the Daguerreian era to today’s digital age, this stunning volume explores the evolution of photographic portraiture through treasures from the National Portrait Gallery’s wide-ranging collection at the Smithsonian Institution.Published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the photography collection, the book highlights the medium’s role in democratizing portraiture. Works by leading photographers, including Richard Avedon, Mathew Brady, Annie Leibovitz, and James Van Der Zee, portray some of America’s most significant figures, including Abraham Lincoln, John Steinbeck, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, emphasising the remarkable people on both sides of the camera.

Poetic, immersive artist’s book blending narrative, technology, and resistance across time and space.Contemporary artist Toni Dove creates media machines that blur the boundaries between performance and installation and fuse film, game, experimental theater and artificial intelligence-based interaction. This extraordinary artist’s book is a love story, a conversation between two characters connecting across time, each pushing back against an encroaching dark age. Hypatia, a Hellenistic astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher assassinated in 415 CE returns 10 years in our future as a furious ghost. As she navigates her new environment, she absorbs what has happened over time and encounters a NASA engineer building a solar array off-world power station. The book, part of a project that includes an installation and a performance, is a poetic and dream-like experience about resistance and the consequences of the fear of knowledge. Augmented Reality adds a magical third dimension, bringing characters and scenes off the page with sound and image using a phone or tablet.

A captivating companion to a major retrospective of Josefina Auslender's drawings at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.This stunning book offers the first comprehensive exploration of Argentinian contemporary artist Josefina Auslender. Despite her prolific mastery of drawing and abstraction in graphite, colored pencil, and ink, Auslender has received disproportionately little attention by critics, scholars, and art institutions–until now.This survey of Auslender's artistic career spans decades and continents, conveying her lifelong passion for creating new worlds through art. By connecting the artist’s work with key moments in her professional career, intersecting with major global events, the accessible text examines issues of gender, war, grief, trauma, diaspora–and how we all, in our own ways, grapple with feelings of isolation and connection, otherness, and belonging.

Unrivalled catalogue of classic American resonator guitars.In 1927, a small Los Angeles company created a startlingly new kind of guitar. Featuring three aluminium cones inside a shiny metal body, the 'tricone' made by the National String Instrument Company sounded and looked like no other guitar. For a short period, until amplified electric guitars became viable in the late 1930s, resonator guitars were at the vital centre of American popular music, a legacy that has fascinated musicians and fans ever since. Featuring essays by two musical instrument experts, colour plates documenting these guitars as no other publication has, and additional illustrations that link these guitars to broader themes in American history and culture, this book provides a rich account of an iconic American object.

A stunning volume chronicling the life and art of Carl Rungius, North America’s premier wildlife painter, featuring paintings of majestic elk, moose, and bear.Throughout his career, renowned wildlife painter Carl Rungius (1869–1959) travelled to Wyoming, the Yukon, New Brunswick, and Alberta in search of wildlife in wild places. As he spent time painting magnificent animals, breathtaking landscapes and western scenes, his style developed from academic naturalism to rugged impressionism. This spectacular volume provides fresh perspectives into Rungius’s storied career, illustrating his artistic journey with well-known and rarely-seen works. Fascinating new scholarship offers insight into a life that ranged from the art galleries of Manhattan to the Rocky Mountains of the American West. The book accompanies a touring exhibition opening at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, and serves as an accessible companion to the comprehensive online Carl Rungius Catalogue Raisonné.

Through stunning, intimate photography, this book brings orchids vividly to life. Showcasing the collection of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida— an international leader in the study and conservation of orchids and other epiphytes—it explores the extraordinary beauty and diversity of one of the largest and most admired families of flowering plants.A visual feast and a celebration of botanical wonder, this volume will enchant all who are drawn to the unique splendor of orchids.

Vibrantly colored, witty, and explosive mixed-media collages are celebrated in this first full monograph showcasing the work of contemporary artist Pepe Mar.Inspired by his passions for clubbing, music, and fashion, Miami-based contemporary artist Pepe Mar creates energetic, playful mixed-media collages and sculptures that explore the excesses of contemporary consumer culture.As his first monograph showcase, this vividly illustrated volume accompanies an exhibition at the Currier Museum in Manchester, New Hampshire. It situates Mar’s practice within the history of artists who engaged with ephemera and found objects, from European Surrealists such as Hannah Höch and Max Ernst to Post-War personal archivists such as Jess, Betye Saar, and Joseph Cornell.The book also examines Mar's distinctive approach to world-building through accumulation, theatricality, and transformation.