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Contact: Art and the Pull of Print Contact: Art and the Pull of Print Jennifer L. Roberts

A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print

Digital Design Digital Design: A History Stephen Eskilson

A groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to today

Pigments Pigments Barbara H. Berrie, Caroline Fowler, Karin Leonhard, and Ittai Weinryb

A concise illustrated history of one of art’s most important and elusive elements

Color Charts Color Charts: A History Anne Varichon

A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and staged

The Land Carries Our Ancestors The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, heather ahtone, Joy Harjo, and Shana Bushyhead Condill

A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the land

Objects in Exile Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930–1960 Robin Schuldenfrei

An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined modernism

Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art Christopher R. Marshall

A new account of the renowned Baroque painter, revealing how her astute professional decisions shaped her career, style, and legacy

Tales Things Tell Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke

New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and images

The Royal Inca Tunic The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece Andrew James Hamilton

The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca art

Surreal Spaces Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington Joanna Moorhead

An illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work through the many places around the world where she lived

Ulises Carrión Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond Edited by Sal Hamerman and Javier Rivero Ramos

A richly illustrated account of the life and work of the twentieth-century Mexican artist and writer who reimagined what the book could look like, mean, and do

Painting with Monet Painting with Monet Harmon Siegel

A major reassessment of the methods and meaning of impressionism

Twinkind Twinkind: The Singular Significance of Twins William Viney

An arresting illustrated history of twins in mythology, science, and visual culture

Yuan Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century China

Recording State Rites in Words and Images Recording State Rites in Words and Images: Uigwe of Joseon Korea Yi Song-mi

A beautifully illustrated, interdisciplinary look at the ceremonies and protocols of the dynastic court of Joseon Korea

Portrait and Place Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840–1960 Giulia Paoletti

A richly illustrated history of photography in one of the epicenters of African modernity

Through the Lens Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani's Visions of Ancient Iraq Edited by Pedro Azara

A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Latif Al Ani’s photographs and contemporary Iraqi artists continue to challenge the colonial appropriation of Iraq’s ancient past

Holzer-isms Holzer-isms: Artist's Edition Jenny Holzer

A box of beautifully designed foldout posters featuring acclaimed artist Jenny Holzer’s celebrated Truisms

Judy Chicago-isms Judy Chicago-isms Judy Chicago

A collection of inspiring and provocative quotations from pioneering artist, feminist, and activist Judy Chicago

Screening Fears Screening Fears: On Protective Media Francesco Casetti

A historical and theoretical investigation of the unexpected ways screen-based media protect and excite viewers’ fears and anxieties of the world

Neshat-isms Neshat-isms Shirin Neshat

A vivid and compelling collection of quotations from the influential contemporary artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat

Tricks of the Light Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle Jonathan Crary

Essays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual culture

Amerasia Amerasia Elizabeth Horodowich and Alexander Nagel

A connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuum

Dissimilar Similitudes Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe Caroline Walker Bynum

From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects

The Everyday Life of Memorials The Everyday Life of Memorials Andrew M. Shanken

A timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary—and oftentimes unseen—lives of memorials

Flashback, Eclipse Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s Romy Golan

From a leading art historian, a provocative exploration of the intersection of art, politics, and history in 1960s Italy

Into the White Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image Christopher P. Heuer

European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500 and 1700 one region upended all of...

Anachronic Renaissance Anachronic Renaissance Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood

In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians present a stunning reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. With intellectual brilliance, Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood reexamine the...

A Forest of Symbols A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century Andrei Pop

In this groundbreaking book, Andrei Pop presents a lucid reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century whose work merits the adjective “symbolist.” For Pop, this term denotes an art that is self-conscious...

Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts Alois Riegl

The first English translation of one of the earliest and most brilliant art-historical surveys, from one of the greatest modern art historians

Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique Anthony J. Cascardi

An innovative study of Goya's unprecedented elaboration of the critical function of the work of art

Transfixed by Prehistory Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time Maria Stavrinaki

An examination of how modern art was impacted by the concept of prehistory and the prehistoric

The Villa The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses James S. Ackerman

A classic account of the villa—from ancient Rome to the twentieth century—by “the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture” (Architect’s Newspaper)

The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity John Boardman

From one of the world’s leading authorities on ancient Greek art, a groundbreaking account of how Greek images were understood and used by other ancient peoples, from Britain to China

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari: The Man and the Book Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase

A striking account of Vasari’s career, friendships, and contribution to the art of the Italian Renaissance

Kings and Connoisseurs Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe Jonathan Brown

A vivid and exciting account of royal collectors, art dealers, connoisseurs, and the rise of old master paintings

Visionary and Dreamer Visionary and Dreamer: Two Poetic Painters: Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones David Cecil

An eminent literary biographer and critic shows how poetry enriched the art of two representative English Romantic painters

Of Divers Arts Of Divers Arts Naum Gabo

Constructivist and sculptor Naum Gabo’s personal account of his development as an artist

The Eternal Present, Volume II The Eternal Present, Volume II: The Beginnings of Architecture Sigfried Giedion

An original account of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian architecture from the acclaimed architectural historian