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Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

“Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art” Book

New from Yale University Press – In recent decades Japanese art has achieved immense popularity in the West while being little understood. Critics have focused on the superficiality and infantilism they find prevalent in much of the work, while many…

“Above the Battlefield” Book

Above the Battlefield: Modernism and the Peace Movement in Britain, 1900-1918 released today from Yale University Press. The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First…

“How to Read Greek Vases” Book

New from Yale University Press, How to Read Greek Vases by Joan R. Mertens, Curator in the Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. How is it possible today to gain insight into the culture that…

“Salvador Dalí: The Late Work” Book

New from Yale University Press, Salvador Dali: The Late Work complements an exhibition of the same name now on view at High Museum in Atlanta (nice web component, FYI). Dali’s output after 1940 has been consider repetitive and overly commercial.…

The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight

“The print repertoire of the 16th and 17th centuries in England has been neglected historically, and this remarkable book rectifies a major oversight in the history of English visual art.” Malcom Jones, senior lecturer at Sheffield University, provides a full…

“American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture” by Alice T. Friedman

curated mag - "American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture"

Alice T. Friedman, Grace Slack McNeil Professor of the History of American Art and director of the McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College, tackles how architecture reflected cultural fascination with “glamour” in the Jet Age. With…

Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery

curated mag - Cabin, Quarter, Plantation

An important new collection of essays, Cabin, Quarter, Plantation provides a comprehensive examination of the architecture and landscape of enslavement in the American south. New scholarship finds home alongside classic writings on the built environment of slavery. As such, the…

Modern Architecture: Representation and Reality

Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University Neil Levine gets to the complex history of architectural signifiers in his new book Modern Architecture: Representation and Reality. Through a detailed survey of major works, Levine…

American Moderns on Paper

American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, presents a selection of roughly 100 of the finest water colors, pastels and drawings from the United States’ first public museum. Dedicated to collecting both modern and American…

The History of British Art, Volume 3: 1870-Now

One can never go wrong with having a solid art survey on the book shelf. Published by Yale University Press and edited by Chris Stephens (this volume) and David Bindman (in total), The History of British Art covers a serious…

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Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

“Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art” Book

Monday, January 24th, 2011

“Above the Battlefield” Book

Friday, December 31st, 2010

“How to Read Greek Vases” Book

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

“Salvador Dalí: The Late Work” Book

Monday, June 21st, 2010

The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

“American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture” by Alice T. Friedman

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Modern Architecture: Representation and Reality

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

American Moderns on Paper

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

The History of British Art, Volume 3: 1870-Now