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Newly updated, this landmark book presents Kenneth Clark’s favorite details from paintings in the National Gallery’s collection together with personal commentary to provide an introduction to the history of art.

Featuring case studies that address issues of modern conservation, this book discusses the material nature of paintings and the ways that they have changed.

The National Gallery, London, presents high-quality reproductions of some two hundred best-loved masterpieces of Western European art from their impressive collection, in a gorgeous, pocket-sized format.

This delightful book documents the celebrated exhibition for which the National Gallery hung reproductions of 44 masterpieces throughout the streets of London.

Featuring extensive archival photographs, this book provides a riveting historical and photographic account of the National Gallery, London, during World War II.

This engaging and accessible book reveals fascinating facts and hidden histories behind paintings in the National Gallery, London.

This intriguing book presents discussions by eminent art historians on current topics and dilemmas in the field.

In this volume, 13 scholars investigate the issue of research to address philosophical and practical issues now facing art historians.

In this remarkable book a renowned art historian chronicles his own shifting responses to two extraordinary paintings by Poussin that he viewed almost daily over a period of months. T. J. Clark provides a riveting analysis of the two landscapes and much more--deeply considered meditations on the hold of the visual image on the viewer’s imagination.

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Richard Hamilton’s document “Pop Art Is,” this book presents works by more than 40 Pop artists––among them Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol––and examines their impact on contemporary art.

This important book focuses on portraits created by Warhol, Lichtenstein, and other American and British Pop artists and shows how they shattered the conventions of portraiture in the 1950s and 1960s.

With works by artists including Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon, this book looks at the dynamic relationship between visual arts and rock-and-roll culture.

This provocative discussion of the new and exciting field of neuroarthistory examines how the neural basis of the mind contributes to an understanding of art.

The first full account of Surrealism's engagement with the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, this book also provides a new look at the work of artists including André Breton, Salvador Dalí, and Max Ernst.

Through vivid illustrations and engaging texts, The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel as it probes the artistic response to steam locomotion within its social setting. Featuring paintings, photography, prints, and posters, the book includes numerous masterpieces by 19th- and 20th-cen...

In this beautifully crafted volume, one of today’s most innovative and controversial artists offers a highly personal reflection on the Jewish Question in contemporary art.

Featuring some 200 color illustrations, this book examines Goudstikker’s legacy, reveals the dramatic story of the seizure of his art, and discusses the legal case that finally brought its restitution. Forty works from his collection are catalogued in full detail.

This book invites readers to enter a two-story virtual “gallery” where images of birds created by artists throughout human history are on display. These works represent a genre called science art—scientifically valid depictions of the natural world—and the authors reveal how such intertwining of art and science enriches our understanding of ea...

This gorgeous book presents over 200 artworks for children’s books from the Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Offering a unique view of the reading lives of children throughout American history, the book reproduces works by such favorite artists as Ludwig Bemelmans, N. C. Wyeth, and Maurice S...

In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the social history of modern art, focusing on specific moments during the last 200 years when art came under attack from the outside world. As he shifts between broad historic discussion and penetrating analysis of specific paintings, Clark transfigures modern art and launches a new set of proposals a...

When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of a...

This insightful and ingenious book investigates different models of the fourth dimension and how these are applied in art and physics, offering new insights into the invention of cubism.

 

Now back in print with a fascinating new afterword by the author, this authoritative book provides an overview of the art world’s major themes and figures during the critical decade of the 1960s. Thomas Crow discusses how the American art scene fit into the corresponding European and international movements of the time, set against the background of world events.

An exciting presentation of over 100 stunning portraits by major contemporary artists––including Lucian Freud, Chuck Close, and Thomas Struth––that reveal the inventiveness of this art form.

A handsome, unique, and indispensable look at the changing cultural perspectives, artistic styles, and symbolic interpretations of the horse throughout the history of art.

This book is the first critical catalogue of the 138 paintings and drawings in the 19th-century collection of the Norton Simon Museum of Art, particularly renowned for its strength in French impressionism and post-impressionism. Each work is illustrated in color and accompanied by a full catalogue entry.

This engaging book explores an array of depictions of children in Western art, from ancient Egyptian amulets to Picasso’s Guernica. Art historian Erika Langmuir discusses why images of children do not simply mirror reality, how works of art serve various functions, and what artists’ imaginative images reveal about Western attitudes toward children.

Translated into seventeen languages since its first publication in 1936, E. H. Gombrich’s bestselling history of the world is at last available in English. Gombrich tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not on small detail but on the sweep of human experience, the extent of human achievement, and the depth of its frailty.

This richly illustrated book presents some 180 European and American portrait miniatures, each with a full catalogue entry and a concise artist biography. These diminutive marvels, selected from the unsurpassed collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum, demonstrate the vitality of the genre through more than four centuries.

This superb reference work features almost 3,000 entries dealing with all aspects of Western art from 1300 to the present. Along with vivid and up-to-date characterizations of artistic styles and individual artists, the extensively cross-referenced entries describe and explain technical processes, theory, schools, movements, patrons and collecting, and more. In addition, conceptual entries cover a...

This gorgeously illustrated volume takes us on a grand tour of the history of silk and explores the role this remarkable textile has played in some of fashion design’s greatest achievements. Mary Schoeser surveys glamorous designs of the 19th and 20th centuries and examines the innovative use of silk by today’s cutting-edge designers.

This elegant book presents an extraordinary collection of works by John Baldessari, Eric Fischl, Louise Bourgeois, and many others, from the archive of Peter Blum––one of the first and most significant print publishers in the United States.

A handsome and comprehensive look at how dogs have been represented by illustrious artists in painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photography over four centuries.

In this illuminating book, a prominent art historian explores the links between avant-garde art and modern mass culture, showing that the connections between the two have always been strong, and even necessary to both. The author recounts vivid episodes involving Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Christopher Williams, and many others, arriving at fresh and original insights into modern art and its pla...

This striking book presents and examines some of the 20th century’s most significant examples of Outsider Art from around the world. Featuring eight unique Outsider artists from a wide range of cultural backgrounds, the book is filled with stunning photographs and important new scholarship on this mesmerizing form of human creativity.

Presenting works by such arts as Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rouault, Picasso, Chagall, and Léger, this engaging book examines how circus figures and artifacts have been portrayed in art over the past two centuries.

This beautiful book showcases the remarkable works of twentieth-century art acquired by a succession of adventurous directors and curators at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Eric Zafran relates the fascinating details behind the acquisition of works by Dalí, Calder, Picasso, Henry Moore, Georgia O’Keeffe, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and many others.

This provocative book explores the cross-fertilization between music and the visual arts in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reassessing the work of a wide range of composers and artists including Richard Wagner, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and John Cage, Simon Shaw-Miller demonstrates how the boundaries between art and music were permeable at this time, enabling each to enrich the other...

This lavishly illustrated book presents a remarkable collection of American drawings and watercolors from one of the leading university museums in the United States. 

This intriguing book explores the unconventional use of signatures in American paintings by such artists as Copley, Homer, Eakins, Wyeth, and Estes.

This generously illustrated book, the first in the Art of the Twentieth Century series, explores a range of issues about art and its place in contemporary culture. After discussions of key concepts such as modernity, modernism, autonomy, spectatorship, and globalization, the authors examine four specific works of art, each one opening up wider questions of meaning and interpretation.

The second volume of the Art of the Twentieth Century series discusses the development of modern art in the first third of the twentieth century and places it in its political context. It presents numerous case studies that illuminate such ideas as “expression” in art, Orientalism and the “primitive,” Cubism, abstract art, Dada, Soviet Constructivism, and Surrealism.

This abundantly illustrated book, the third in the Art of the Twentieth Century series, considers works of art produced in Europe and the United States between the 1930s and 1960s. Moving chronologically, it examines work of the European avant-garde; Abstract Expressionism in the United States; “autonomous” high modernism; and the reemergence of the concerns of the 1920 avant-ga...

In this fourth volume of the Art of the Twentieth Century series, the contributors address themes relating to art from the 1960s to the end of the century—the period of “postmodernism.” These include Conceptual art; the Post-Conceptual practices of painting and photography; video, performance, and installation art; gendered and nongendered objects; and the globalization of...

This reader, a companion to The Open University’s four-volume Art of the Twentieth Century series, offers a variety of writings by art historians and art theorists. The writings were originally published as freestanding essays or chapters in books, and they reflect the diversity of art historical interpretations and theoretical approaches to twentieth-century art.


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