Featuring photographs of the forests, meadows, and shorebirds near his home in coastal Oregon, Sea Stories is Robert Adams's penultimate body of work.

From still lifes inside photographer Robert Adams's home to images of the changing landscape of coastal Oregon, This Day reveals the undeniable presence of the sublime in everyday life.

A new and expanded volume of Robert Adams's 1978 photographic essay of the Great Plains, this edition includes previously unpublished photographs chosen and sequenced by the photographer.

Beautifully illustrated, this volume offers a critical reconsideration of artist John Graham and members of his circle, whose art and ideas contributed to the vitality of American modernism between the two world wars.

This midcareer retrospective presents a wealth of never-before-published photographs by acclaimed contemporary artist Zoe Strauss, whose images, often presented in uncommon venues, reveal the beauty and struggles of everyday American life.

Featuring stunning color illustrations, this fascinating book looks at LeWitt's deceptively simple geometric sculptures, which epitomize the artist's aim "to recreate art" by starting "from square one."

This long-awaited anthology provides a new discourse on four decades of painting by Martin, one of the 20th century’s most influential artists.

An insightful exploration of contemporary American art, this exciting and highly anticipated book showcases innovative works by some 50 emerging and established American artists working across a range of media.

Encouraging readers to reconsider a premier art institution and the works housed therein, artist Michael Smith investigates the Whitney Museum of American Art as his 18-month-old character, Baby Ikki.

This long-overdue survey presents an overview of Levine's photographs, paintings, and sculptures from the 1970s to the present.

This artist’s book explores politics, history, and speech through a visual essay that includes historical images, such flyers, signage, and speech acts, as well as Hayes’s own work. Short texts by activists and protesters accompany each image.

This fascinating publication reevaluates the term foreclosure, challenging its association with paralytic economic and political cycles by offering alternative definitions explored in works of all media.

A comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey that uses an important collection of modernist design to explore themes in 20th-century American aesthetics, culture, and society.

Leading critics analyze the important legacy of 130 works of postwar art represented in the collection of Richard Brown Baker, whose firsthand accounts give added dimension to the discussion.

The full range of Friedlander's self-portraiture is documented and explored in this extraordinary book, from some of his earliest works to recent photographs taken of the artist with his family.

Picasso's drawings during this crucial time period reveal the extent to which the artist used drawing to synthesize past and present, tradition and innovation, in order to give his art a fresh and vigorous expression.

The artist Alighiero e Boetti had an idiosyncratic and novel approach to art that transcended categories in the second half of the 20th century. This monograph is the first to outline his major artistic contributions.

This retrospective survey showcases drawings, watercolors, and sculptures in a variety of media made in the last ten years by one of the most acclaimed and inventive British sculptors working today.

Blackadder is one of Scotland's best-loved painters. This survey covers her 60-year career showcasing the still lifes, animals, plants, and landscapes that she painted from close observation of her surroundings.

Featuring extensive illustrations of Walter De Maria's new sculptural installation for The Menil Collection and essays by scholars, this catalogue examines defining features of the artist's work.

The first-ever comprehensive look at internationally known artist Ron Mueck's hyperrealist figurative sculpture, this book offers detailed insight into the artist's ideas and methods.

Abadie examines the monumental architectural sculptures of Jean Dubuffet in the 1960s and 1970s, which marked the artist's dramatic expansion of his painting practice into the third dimension.

A significant reassessment of a critical moment in the work of one of the 20th-century’s most important artists.

An excellent introduction to the work of an artist considered one of the world's greatest realist painters.

An essential book for every personal art library, this lavishly illustrated volume celebrates the work and career of an artist who overturned traditional portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art.

A concise introduction to one of the most significant artistic innovators of our time.

"It's not money or painting between us. But something above both." —Stieglitz to artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1918)

The first comprehensive presentation of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection at the Metropolitan Museum, this fully illustrated catalogue demonstrates the intense and often intimate relationships between Stieglitz and the artists he cultivated and collecte...

Handsomely designed and beautifully illustrated, this book provides a fascinating examination of the cultural and political forces that shaped the art of a tumultuous decade.

This monograph is the first on the life and work of Greek-American artist Kosta Alex, whose collages and groundbreaking collage-reliefs of the postwar decades tested the boundary between the second and third dimension.

A highly anticipated publication, the first volume in the John Baldessari catalogue raisonné will bring to light about 500 works produced between 1956 and 1974, chronicling an important shift in Baldessari's thinking during these formative years.

A rare glimpse into an important Chicago collection reveals drawings by some of the leading artists of the postwar period, with a focus on Minimalism and Post-Minimalism, and explores the role of drawing in artistic practice.

A collection of innovative avant-garde Japanese fiber-art installations, showcasing traditional and cutting-edge techniques.

With rich color illustrations, a comprehensive artistic and personal chronology, and exciting new scholarship, this publication is the first scholarly assessment of the full scope of Lichtenstein's career.

The life and legacy of the brilliant and elusive potter Lucie Rie is investigated through personal interviews, unpublished letters, and a detailed analysis of her elegant, modernist, utilitarian, and decorative vessels.

This exploration of photocollages and manipulated photographs by artists of the last hundred years shows how the photographic medium has been used to create utopian and dystopian visions of the world.

A landmark publication that presents, for the first time in its entirety, one of the finest collections of contemporary ceramics, revealing major shifts in the field over the past 70 years.

This commemorative book documents the making of the monumental artwork Odyssey by Cai Guo-Qiang. Cai's installation, commissioned for a museum gallery, serves as a modern portal through which to experience ancient and contemporary Chinese art.

A generously illustrated catalogue that presents an extraordinary collection of avant-garde and modernist works, showcasing the rich artistic output of Czechoslovakia in the 20th century.

A remarkable book that makes Heisler's photography and assemblage work available to English-speaking audiences for the first time.

Evelyn Toynton's fresh, fascinating portrait of Jackson Pollock explores his work, his influence, and his legend in the context of both art history and the cultural history of mid-twentieth-century America.

Evelyn Toynton's fresh, fascinating portrait of Jackson Pollock explores his work, his influence, and his legend in the context of both art history and the cultural history of mid-twentieth-century America.

The captivating black and white photographs gathered in this exquisite volume reveal intimate glimpses into Patti Smith's fascinating life.

A major survey examining the work of international conceptual artists of the 1960s and 1970s who used photography to new and inventive ends.

The first publication of now-classic images made by Bey from 1975–1978 of the neighborhood of Harlem.

This insightful catalogue offers an account of the life and work of Fu Baoshi, a leading Chinese artist of the 20th century who revolutionized the tradition of Chinese ink painting.

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