Michael Sullivan's Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century offers a profound and nuanced exploration of modern Chinese art's evolution amidst the complex interplay of Eastern traditions and Western influences.
Dore Ashton has updated the bibliography and added a new concluding chapter to her classic study of the paintings and drawings of Philip Guston, the only study of his work completely authorized by the artist.
An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other readers a comprehensive sense of the dynamic issues and problems in aesthetics and philosophy of art today.
Filling an important gap in design history, Another Modernism examines how domestic space was conceived by the US home economics movement in the first half of the 20th century.
In Carol Zemel's insightful reinterpretation of Van Gogh's work and career, the artist is seen as a determined modern professional instead of the tortured romantic hero that legend has given us.
This ambitious volume provides a general introduction to the major approaches in this century to art theory and criticism, from the Expression Theory to Poststructuralism.
Erle Loran's Cezanne's Composition offers a comprehensive and analytical exploration of the compositional techniques used by Paul Cezanne, emphasizing form, color, and space organization.