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“A tender and thoughtful rendering of an important artist’s life. Sam Nakahira uses the power and beauty of comics to its fullest to immerse you in the mind and genius of Ruth Asawa. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again!”—Tillie Walden, Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Brave, unconventional, and determined, Ruth Asawa let nothing stop her from living a life intertwined with art. Renowned for her innovative wire sc...

This engaging book highlights the role of blue paper in the history of drawing.

This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This is the first online step-by-step guide to the design, implementation, and maintenance of heritage inventories and surveys.

With insights into the religious, imperial, military, and cultural uses of secrecy, this book looks at the ways secrecy manifested itself during the Byzantine Empire and the implications it has for the issues we face today"--

This abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures side by side.

A study of the medieval manuscript The Book of Marvels of the World, a fifteenth-century French illustrated guide to the globe"--

The first English-language volume about Hippolyte Bayard, one of the inventors of photography who helped transform the burgeoning medium into an art form.

This illustrated guide offers accessible, concise explanations of key fashion terms and describes and explains the most essential components of garments and techniques of clothing construction"--

Reframing long-held assumptions about what distinguishes fine from decorative art, this innovative study explores a mode of making, seeing, and thinking that slices across eighteenth-century visual culture.

This illustrated critical anthology presents in English translation selected writings by the Italian architect, historian, and restorer Gustavo Giovannoni (1873-1947)"--

An in-depth and nuanced look at the complex relationship between two dynamic fields of study.

Situates French artist Jean-Franðcois Millet's painting 'Man with a Hoe' (1860-62) in the arc of his career and traces its reception, from its debut at the 1863 Paris Salon to the years following its acquisition by American collectors in the 1890s"--

This book traces the history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. Drawing upon archival resources & international museum collections, the contributors analyze the ways shifting patterns of collecting have shaped modern academic disciplines as well as public, private & institutional attitudes toward Mesoamerican art.

This catalogue, accompanying exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum, offers a comprehensive survey of the life and work of the French modernist sculptor Camille Claudel"--

This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing not only the fabric of the eighteenth-century art world in France but also unfamiliar-and sometimes unexpected-insights into the individuals who populated it including Jean-Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun.

An insightful look at how East Asian notions of space transformed Western painting.

This book provides the first exploration of the role that Persian cultures played in articulating the many ways power was expressed across Afro-Eurasia between the 6th century BCE and the 19th century CE. The essays analyze the intellectual and political exchanges of art, architecture, ritual and luxury material within and beyond the Persian world.

Contemporary artist Uta Barth has spent decades exploring the complexities and limits of human & mechanical vision. This richly illustrated book charts her career and her most significant compositional series, revealing the many ways she has drawn attention away from the primacy of a traditional photographic subject to what is on the periphery.

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959) makes powerful work that holds and beholds the stories of historically silenced peoples and urges societal change. This volume, the first critical look at the artist's oeuvre in nearly two decades, surveys the concerns, materials, and places invoked throughout her forty-year career