Drawing upon the Cleveland Museum of Art's world-renowned collection of Chinese paintings, this volume presents an insightful study of a newly acquired work that occasions dialogue between traditional forms of art and contemporary environmental issue...

In May 1968, while French young people were taking to the streets, three Latin American artists were exhibiting at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris: Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, and a woman, the sculptor Alicia Penalba. Born in Argentina,...

The Kamakura period (1185-1333) is considered a pinnacle of Japanese artistic expression, often described as a renaissance in Buddhist art. This catalogue is the first in over two decades to examine the exquisite sculpture of this period, artwork cha...

Not for sale in Estonia! The first pop-up book on Milan, a 3D guide for children and adults. Milan revealed by the spectacular paper architecture of Dario Cestaro, in a pop-up book that recounts the city's history in simple texts and curious anecdo...

Acrylic Color Explorations is as inspirational as it is instructional as Chris Cozen explores practical color basics through simple "stretching" exercises to determine the "voice" of the best colors to use in any creative situation. - Makes color the...

Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. These illustrations, known as "fashion plates", conveyed the cutting-edge styles embraced by the fashion-conscious elite...

This publication presents the first in-depth survey of the Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection of Indian drawings, which was recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exceptional collection, which has never previously been pu...

Pigeon languages our cities. When a speckled grey pigeon is trapped by artists and spray-painted in a miniature car wash, and released as an ultramarine green pigeon streaking through a public space, what happens to the "flying rat"? How do we really...

"Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West" examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volum...