Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art, exploring the writings of Elizabeth Siddall, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot.

Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy, art theory, and many engrossing examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, sex, web sites, and research on the brain's role in perceiving art. This clear, lively book will engage the public, introductory students, and teachers in the arts.

How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence and human loss, the execution of artists and intellectuals, the erasure of individual and institutional cultural memory all caused great damage to Cambodian arts, culture, and society. Author Boreth Ly explores the "traces" of this haunting p...

Matisse and Picasso by Robert Capa, Takashi Murakami by Olivia Arthur, Warhol and de Kooning by Thomas Hoepker, Bonnard by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sonia Delaunay by Herbert List, Kiki Smith by Susan Meiselas, and many more. For the first time, Magnum Artists brings together a collection of over 200 photographs that define the unique relationship between the world's greatest photography collective and the world's greatest artists.

Arboglyphes is the sequel to Jephan de Villiers' book, Figures of Silence, published in 2021.

Jephan de Villiers' writings fly from conscience to conscience. They might be Arabic, Indian or African. Ho­rizontal or vertical, over the years they have become a series of musical scores. Scales, even. Not a day goes by without him writing.

"I always write standing up, as if my body was already moving towards something else, the other, as if I was about to move across the paper."

Every day, this...

KONTINENT In Search of Europe is the new publication and exhibition project of OSTKREUZ-Agency of Photographers, Berlin. As in previous editions, a common topic was designated for agency members to work on for several years. KONTINENT is the seventh joint thematic publication of the agency members. Over the past three decades they have received recognition in Germany and abroad for their high-quality artistic, documentary photojournalism. As an artistic and political statement, the twenty-thr...

An entertaining and gorgeously illustrated homage to Nino Cerruti (1930-2022), the great Italian fashion designer whose deconstructed jackets and supple fabrics revolutionised menswear in the 1960s.

Der Katalog präsentiert, ausgehend von bedeutenden Werken aus Piet Mondrians bekanntester Schaffensphase, der sogenannten "Neuen Gestaltung", erstmalig in diesem Umfang einen Einblick in den Kosmos der mannigfaltigen Neuschöpfungen, Adaptionen, Variationen, Persiflagen und Weiterentwicklungen seiner künstlerisch bahnbrechenden Kompositionen: von Kunstwerken seiner unmittelbaren Zeitgenoss*innen über die berühmten Mondrian-Kleider von Yves Saint-Laurent, Objekte des Designs und der Alltag...

The publication features Balthus' engagement with surface as both a material and a psychological quality, and offering new perspectives on the artist's use of vibrant layers of colour underneath his compositions, and the sexual politics implied by his art.

Voor het eerst een Engelse editie van een inspirerende Nederlandse 'museum- en kunstklassieker' (NL: 1981, bewerkte herdruk 2004).