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Culture & Society

Culture & Society

  • Goya: The Disasters of War Goya: The Disasters of War

    Goya: The Disasters of War

    $60.00
    Based on the original 1863 edition, this presentation of Goya's 80 etchings decries the consequences of war through his bleak, gruesome and unflinching imagery Following his tenure as court painter for the Spanish royal family, Francisco de Goya's art...
    $60.00
  • Walter Gropius: New Works from Bauhaus Workshops - Bauhausbücher 7 Walter Gropius: New Works from Bauhaus Workshops - Bauhausbücher 7

    Walter Gropius: New Works from Bauhaus Workshops - Bauhausbücher 7

    $50.00
    Walter Gropius outlines the guiding principles of Bauhaus living, from household utensils to textiles and ceramics The Bauhaus sought to unite life, craftsmanship and art under one coherent ethos and aesthetic. In New Works from Bauhaus Workshops—the...
    $50.00
  • Screenprints: A History Screenprints: A History

    Screenprints: A History

    $50.00
    A celebration of the rich twentieth and twenty-first-century tradition of screen-printing as a means of artistic expression, from its commercial origins in 1920s America to the limited-edition screenprints of the postwar period and today. Screenprints: A...
    $50.00
  • Diego Rivera's America Diego Rivera's America

    Diego Rivera's America

    $60.00
    Diego Rivera’s America revisits a historical moment when the famed muralist and painter, more than any other artist of his time, helped forge Mexican national identity in visual terms and imagined a shared American future in which unity, rather than...
    $60.00
  • Japan Style Japan Style

    Japan Style

    $49.95
    The authoritative and wide-ranging visual essay on the aesthetics of Japan, a classic volume now back in print with a stunning new cover design ‘Japan style’ is an aesthetic recognizable to everyone: a beautifully displayed flower, an elegant...
    $49.95
  • The Art Front by Rose Valland The Art Front by Rose Valland

    The Art Front by Rose Valland

    $55.00
    More than four decades after the passing of Monuments Woman Captain Rose Valland (1898–1980), one of the great heroines of World War II, the Monuments Men and Women Foundation released the first-ever English translation of her 1961 memoir, The Art Front:...
    $55.00
  • Carl Van Vechten: 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes Carl Van Vechten: 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes

    Carl Van Vechten: 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes

    $50.00
    Portraits of 50 pioneering figures of the Harlem Renaissance This elegantly designed and beautifully produced volume presents portraits of 50 extraordinary individuals who contributed to making the Harlem Renaissance one of the great cultural movements...
    $50.00
  • Lincoln Kirstein's Modern Lincoln Kirstein's Modern

    Lincoln Kirstein's Modern

    $55.00
    Lincoln Kirstein was a polymathic writer, critic, curator and impresario: a key connector and an indefatigable catalyst whose sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and ‘40s shaped artists and institutions. Best known for...
    $55.00
  • Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750 - 1900 Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750 - 1900

    Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750 - 1900

    $45.00
    In early modern Japan, cultural salons were creative spaces for people of all ages and social levels to pursue painting, poetry, and other artistic endeavors as serious but amateur practitioners. All using a pen- or art-name, individuals were able to...
    $45.00
  • Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics

    Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics

    $49.95
    Examining aesthetic connections between the works of more than 50 Black artists from throughout the global diaspora This book was born out of frustration with art histories that emphasize Black artists’ resilience over the aesthetic impact of their...
    $49.95
  • Gothic Modern: From Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz Gothic Modern: From Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz

    Gothic Modern: From Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz

    $52.00
    How medieval Gothic art inspired a generation. Gothic Modern illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz, and their artist contemporaries. It explores their deep attraction to the Gothic art of...
    $52.00
  • Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography

    Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography

    $60.00
    An accessible, inspirational, and engaging introductory survey of LGBTQIA+ photography, as told through the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Drawing on one of the oldest and largest photography collections in the world, Calling the...
    $60.00