Pegasus Books, December 2023. Hardcover. The untold story of the artistic battle between James Abbot MacNeill Whistler and John Ruskin over Whistler's controversial, ground-breaking Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. In November 1878, America's greatest painter sued England's greatest critic for a bad review. The painter won--but ruined..... More
Dover Publications, June 1970. Oversize Softcover. Gustave Dore's magnificent engravings for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are among the later works of the great French illustrator. The intensely evocative poem provided Doré with the long-awaited opportunity to convey limitless space on a gigantic scale, and he exploited the poem's..... More
Alfred a Knopf, April 1982. Cloth. {9 x 11 & 3/4'} In jacket with edgewear. In brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine edge. Blind stamped primitive style designs realized by James Wageman. [263 pages]. More
Databank Press, 1990. Reprint. Paper Back. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Self published with cardstock cover and black strip binding. (No text on spine). Signed & limited. #164/250. Signed & number of copies handwritten in blue ink on '5 x 2' bookplate affixed to title page. This is a...... More
Thames & Hudson, October 2023. Hardcover. This imaginative reframing of the Renaissance presents its history asthat of connections across Europe, where artists from the north andsouth were products of the brilliantly fertile mix of classical inspiration, observation, and self-consciousness that set European culture alight from the fifteenth to the early..... More
Thames & Hudson, November 2023. Paper Back. This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 150,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of postcolonial debates, the restitution of cultural objects and artifacts, and the challenges of the present. This..... More
Thames & Hudson, October 2023. Hardcover. Vincent van Gogh believed that drawing was the "root of everything." This was reflected in the remarkable output of more than one thousand graphic works produced by the artist during his short and dramatic life--many of them personal, often lonely explorations of the emerging..... More
Thames & Hudson, October 2023. Hardcover. Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island is the first in-depth study of the performances, videos, and social practice of the influential Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco. The book will accompany an international touring retrospective of the artist's work starting in 2023. Featuring contributions by renowned..... More
University of California Press, February 2009. Trade Paperback. When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it." Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of..... More
