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This first comprehensive catalogue on the de Menils' collection of African art––including its formation––features 120 of the museum’s finest pieces.

Featuring extensive previously unpublished correspondence, this book examines the significant contributions of John and Dominique de Menil to art, architecture, and the civil and human rights movements.

The first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolorist Suzan Frecon.

This book examines the work of thirty-three artists––including Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, José Bedia, Rebecca Belmore, and James Lee Byars––who began using ritualistic practices during the 1970s and 1980s as a way of reinterpreting aspects of their cultural heritage. Younger artists such as Tania Bruguera and Michael Joo are shown to have drawn upon the iconograp...

Published on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of The Menil Collection, this book reproduces and examines works held in that museum and extraordinary gifts from John and Dominique de Menil to the Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne in Paris; the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

In his Cardboard series (1971--72), Rauschenberg worked exclusively from cardboard boxes, eliminating virtually all imagery and color, and subtly commenting on the materialism and disposability of modern life. This book is the first to focus on these rarely seen works, along with his related Made in Tampa Clay, Cardbirds, Egyptian, and Venetian series.

This book will put the artist back in midst of Surrealism so that his achievement is more profoundly understood within that context. Works by artists such as Miró, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and René Magritte will delineate the Surrealist milieu and some of its chief aspects.  The following theses are also explored: Calder's wit, caricature, and line...

This fascinating book provides an in-depth look at German artist Joseph Beuys’s work in sculpture, the definition of which he radically redefined over the course of his unparalleled and influential career as an artist and activist.

This handsome book focuses on Georges Braque's mature works, created between the end of World War II and the artist's death in 1963. A major figure in twentieth-century French art, Braque remained truthful to the principles of his early cubist paintings yet demonstrated an increased freedom and poetic quality in several major series during his later years—the Interiors, Billiard Tables, S...