Individual artists, art monographs

Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017.

Born in 1887, Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the key figures who participated in the emancipation of modern art from its conventional forms and subjects.

The first sustained examination of a canonical and widely exhibited work by a leading artist of the former Yugoslavia.

An examination of Lee Lozano''s greatest experiment in art and endurance—a major work of art that might not exist at all.

An illustrated examination of Philip Guston''s comic and complex painting The Studio.

Artiste imprévisible et excentrique, le peintre américain Whistler est un véritable personnage de roman, admiré et très discuté.

A study of Kusama''s era-defining work, a “sublime, miraculous field of phalluses,” against the background of abstraction, eroticism, sexuality, and softness.

After sixty surgeries at a cost of almost $200,000 to feminize and beautify her originally male body, transgendered Canadian artist Nina Arsenault has created a body of work emanating from her experiences that includes photographs, videos disseminated online, a website, a blog, several social networking presentation sites, stage plays, print media writing and performance of the body in both celebrity appearances and daily public life.

An illustrated study that casts a new light on Oiticica''s most important work of “quasi-cinema” on its fortieth anniversary.

The first sustained critical examination of a work by Martha Rosler that bridged the concerns of conceptual art with those of political documentary.

The strange saga of the famous kitsch artists, the Keanes, soon to be seen in the forthcoming movie Big Eyes.

In 2009 Roy Huteson Stewart set out on an expedition into unknown realms to chronicle the life and times of the so-called "e;wickedest man in the world"e;.

"e;This is the book of my art life so far.

This ground-breaking book is the first to address the feminine and feminist politics of Intimiste art - a modernist mode of art making developed in the 1890s by douard Vuillard while associated with the Nabi 'brotherhood'.

Bertram Kaschek legt die erste umfassende Analyse und Interpretation der berühmten "Monatsbilder" Pieter Bruegels vor und präsentiert überraschende Ergebnisse.

The infamous Salvator Mundi painting sold in 2017 for $450.

William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist.

"e;My homes are my life's work-making old houses into a new form of my art,"e; says Hunt Slonem in his preface.

The complete guide to our closest living relative, drawing on thirty years of primate observation.

Lucas Cranach the Elder - painter of the Reformation and master of sensual beautyWith around 500 works to his name, Lucas Cranach remains one of the most influential artists of the 16th century.

Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art focuses on practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions.

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"e;Reading Patricia Vigderman is like attending an ideal dinner party, where everyone has read your favorite books.

Irwin Brunson was born the same year the Brown vs.

Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art focuses on practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions.

This is the third adventure in our series on cool inventions created in Asia.

A groundbreaking account of the role of writing in Michelangelo's artMichelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Pieta, and the dome of St.

Discover the must-read, coming-of-age queer memoir about learning how to love yourself in a world that doesn t want you to.

'Hypnotic and propulsive' - The Sunday Times'Thrilling' - The TLS'Compulsive' - The ObserverIn Naked Portrait Rose Boyt explores her complicated relationship with her beloved father, Lucian Freud, drawing on a diary she kept while sitting for him and which she found five years after his death.

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Experience the wonder of child prodigy Akiane Kramarik's divinely inspired artwork firsthand.

The story of how a summer job spawned a long and rewarding career as an artistCoca-Cola is a true American original and one of the world's most recognized and popular American products.

On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat.

How a famous painting opens a window into the life, times, and philosophy of Rene DescartesIn the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher.

The quotable Ai WeiweiThis collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life.

Regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time, Bernard Herrmann was responsible for some of the most memorable music in film.

A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation.

An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural worldI'm often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go.

The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of cultureIn the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and passed on new food-washing behaviors within their troop.

A disciple of Classical sculpture in a time of pervasive abstract modernism, Lawrence M.

Paintings, magisterial and universal, that capture the essence of a vibrant African American communityIn his art Jonathan Green paints the world of his childhood and an ode to a people imbued with a profound respect for the dignity and value of others-the Gullah people of the South Carolina barrier islands.

With its fanlike evergreen fronds, soft trunk, and strong root system, the palmetto is a wind-adapted palm that can bend with strong sea breezes without breaking or being uprooted.

John Singer Sargents renowned portrait The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is examined in an aesthetic, philosophical, and personal tour de force that has been called thoroughly absorbing (New York Times Book Review); brilliant and insightful?

Why, and in what manner, did artist Paul Klee have such a significant impact on twentieth-century thinkers?

One minute and thirty seconds is the average length allotted to a news feature.

Andy Warhol – Ikone der Pop Art, Kunst als Vervielfältigung Der Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen zum bis heute weltweit herausragenden Künstler Andy Warhol.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR ILLUSTRATIVE BOOKSSwoop Sing Perch Paddle brings together 132 screenprints by renowned wildlife artist Carry Akroyd, celebrating British birds in all their colour and charm.

This book considers the sculpture of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D.

Die Portraits, Akte und Stillleben von Tamara Lempicka (1898-1980) atmen den Geist des Art Deco und des Jazz Age.