An exploration of twentienth-century conceptions of time and their relation to artistic form. ...

This is a series of passionately and reasoned reflection on the current state of arts in Britian, written by a distinguished broadcaster and art administrator. ...

Concrete Regionalism presents the work of four of today's most lauded and accomplished international architects, each of whom has combined vernacular building with a carefully conceived use of concrete. These buildings sensitively respond to their environments, while functioning as monumental symbols that transcend their immediate surroundings.<P>The approaches of Antoine Predock (Albuquerque), Tadao Ando (Osaka), Riccardo Legorreta ...

This lavishly illustrated book concerns the body in western art from the nineteenth century to the present day, and features essays by contemporary art critics on questions related to this topic. As a provocative primer on developments in the various traditions and anti-traditions of figurative art, the book has a wealth of examples -- from Courbet's naturalism to Gober's installations of disembodied legs. From the ghost-like figures in the ...

The infant Jesus has long been a subject of adoration for the world's greatest artists and writers. In glorious full-color reproductions, this inspirational art book culls classic artistic representations of the Christ child from the world's great museums and highlights them with quotes and passages from the works of well-known authors from the past. ...

Tribal art has been one of the greatest inspirations for twentieth-century Western artists. Picasso, Matisse, Ernst, and Brancusi responded in unforgettable ways to masks, sculpture, and other forms of indigenous African, Oceanic, and American art. The politics of this relationship have long been a matter of contention: is it a cross-cultural discovery to be celebrated, or just one more example of Western colonial appropriation?<P>This ...

In this updated edition of his highly praised book, Christopher White provides the definitive account of Rembrandt's etchings and their significance within the larger body of the artist's work. With eloquence and deep insight, White analyzes the technical, stylistic, and iconographic features of selected etchings, traces their close relationship with the artist's drawings, and reveals how Rembrandt made the medium his own.<P>Rembrandt was ...

This book introduces to an English-language audience the writings of the so-called New Vienna School of art history. In the 1930s Hans Sedlmayr (1896-1984) and Otto Pacht (1902-1988) undertook an ambitious extension of the formalist art historical project of Alois Riegl (1858-1905). Sedlmayr and Pacht began with an aestheticist conception of the autonomy and irreducibility of the artistic process. At the same time they believed they could read ...

In 1999, Kyoto's Miho Museum, designed by I.M. Pei, hosted an international symposium to investigate the meaning of the esthetic experience. Moderated by David Finn, six participants -- artists, critics, curators -- provided personal accounts of encountering great works of art. This book, with forty-five color photographs illustrating the participants' choices, is the result.<P>The Miho Museum owns a collection of more than one thousand ...

At 83, Paritosh Sen towers above many of his contemporaries in the rare quality of his creative personality -- unwithered by age, and exuding an aura and charisma which are the sterling gifts of his experience as a painter, writer and a perceptive and sensitive participant in the social and cultural milieu of his time.<P>These facets of his personality can be glimpsed in this assemblage of Sen's oeuvre -- his first retrospective -- with a ...