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This handsome book explores the painterly phenomenon of softness through works by 15 important artists, including Whistl...

Édouard Baldus was the most important French architectural photographer of the mid-nineteenth century. This book explores one of his most intriguing projects—a remarkable series of views of the Château de La Faloise.

With 21 essays by leading art historians, this volume investigates David’s grand projects of the Empire period and the mysterious works produced in political exile.

This landmark book sheds new light on the later work of Jacques-Louis David, the most celebrated artist of his time. Beautifully illustrated and featuring many paintings and drawings that were previously unknown or inaccessible, the book investigates David’s position after the Terror, his relationship with Napoleon, and the new approach to antiquity in his historical compositions.

This gorgeously illustrated book is the first to focus on Monet’s pastels, drawings, and sketchbooks, offering a revolutionary new interpretation of the artist’s life and work.

A fascinating and handsome look at the magnificent collections of Sterling and Stephen Clark––two of the greatest American patrons of the arts.

Eleven distinguished scholars discuss the current state of contemporary architecture worldwide and the ways in which it is caught between the art of display and the accommodation of use.

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In this timely volume, more than 20 leading scholars discuss the discipline, practice, historiography, and study of photography, from William Henry Fox Talbot to Louise Lawler.

This latest volume in the critically acclaimed Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series examines art history’s attraction to particular objects during various periods. Distinguished contributors grapple with questions of how art and art history are shaped by the confrontation with the object—painted, drawn, and sculpted; lost, found, and ready-made; exhibited and conserved.

Part of the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, this volume examines the intersections and divergences between art history and anthropology, exploring how these disciplines understand the term “art” and respond to specific works of art.

How do we do justice to art when we treat it not as a regional tradition but as a worldwide phenomenon? In this groundbreaking book, leading academics, curators, bibliographers, and representatives of international organizations explain the ways they deal with the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express.

While many museum professionals believe university-based art history focuses too much on theory and too little on the aesthetic dimensions of the art object, many academics feel that museums are too preoccupied with the quest for audiences to be a viable source of innovative scholarship. In this provocative book, eminent figures from both sides of the art world explore the often tense relations be...

Essays by renowned international scholars examine how the institutional practice of art history has evolved in the United States compared with such countries as Germany, France, England, and the Netherlands. These writings discuss the function of higher education in different national contexts and the extent that professionalization encourages or limits critical innovation.

Art history, aesthetics, and visual studies today find themselves in contested new philosophical and institutional circumstances. In this fascinating book, fifteen distinguished scholars explore the connections and differences among these three methods of investigating visual representation.

This richly illustrated book presents a full array of drawings by the great French artist Claude Lorrain, for whom drawing was an integral part of the artistic process. These drawings represent all aspects of the artist’s style and subject matter and include a remarkable selection from his Liber Veritatis, the portfolio he created to document his painted compositions.

Renoir, the only Impressionist artist to paint Orientalist themes, made two journeys to the French North African colony of Algeria in 1881 and 1882 and created more than two dozen stunning works there. This gorgeous book assembles the Algerian paintings for the first time and places them in the context of the topography of the city and the ethnography of its people.

This lovely book—the first comprehensive examination of Eastman Johnson’s vivid paintings documenting the making of maple sugar in the 1860s—offers both a celebration of New England and a commentary on a bygone era.

This beautifully illustrated book features 94 works from the celebrated collection of Alfred Bruyas—including important paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Courbet, Delacroix, and Ingres—and examines the unique nature of his patronage.

Few artists of the nineteenth century created works as subtly evocative, as socially poignant, and as artistically influential as Jean-François Millet. This beautiful book examines Millet’s technical and creative achievement, focusing on his rarely seen pastels, watercolors, and drawings.

This gorgeous book is the first to examine the relationship between these two great artists, both members of Stieglitz’s circle, and how they shaped each other’s careers and American modernism.

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

A celebration of the Clark’s new museum building by Tadao Ando, with stunning photographs by acclaimed photographer Richard Pare.