Schools, Periods & Styles
- Under the Sign of Saturn (Penguin Modern Classics)
- 'No one has written more passionately about Antonin Artaud.Nor has anyone before Sontag taken the pains to demolish so thoroughly Hitler's favourite moveimaker, Leni Riefenstahl. This is one of the crack essays in the book.' Chicago Tribune.
- Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art
- In Painting outside the Lines, David Galenson offers the simple but fascinating thesis that statistical analysis reveals patterns in the careers of modern artists. The book's most startling argument describes two kinds of artistic behavior enacted by modern artists since the impressionists: the conceptualists, whose work matures early, and the experimentalists, whose work comes to fruition late.
- Abstract City
- Christoph Niemann is an award-winning illustrator, designer, and children’s book author. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, Wired, and the New York Times. He lives in Berlin, Germany.
- Painting Summer in New England
- Trevor Fairbrother, formerly deputy director and curator of modern art at the Seattle Art Museum, is an independent scholar. He is author of John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist (Yale). Dan L. Monroe is Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum.
- Art Past Art Present
- An odd amalgam, this album is intended as an introductory text in art history or art appreciation. Although not especially successful in its stated aim of achieving a global, comparative, chronological overview of world art, it makes provocative juxtapositions.
- Masterpieces of Chinese Art
- Here is a magnificent overview of the artistic masterpieces of Chinese civilization from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century, encompassing sculpture, paintings, drawings, and pottery.
- Bloomsbury and France:Art and Friends
- This richly illustrated volume documents the influence of all things French on the lives and work of some of the major figures in the Bloomsbury group, including Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and Virginia Woolf.
- Anteros: A Forgotten Myth
- "This book combines acute psychological insight and aesthetic sensitivity with consummate scholarship: a love of learning and a subtle interpretative intellect are evident on every page." - Paul Bishop, University of Glasgow, UK "A masterful book. The animating idea is brilliant, and the scholarly reach is both expansive and precise.
