Norman Rockwell's scenes of everyday small-town life are among the most indelible images in all of twentieth-century art. While opinions of Rockwell vary from uncritical admiration to sneering contempt, those who love him and those who dismiss him do...

A major contribution to the study of medieval and Renaissance art, "Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century" studies nearly 100 works from the vast collections of the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in an effort to determine the m...

Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: "Winslow Homer's" raw, evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American art".Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea" offers here a fresh ex...

Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the poi...

Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever".Museum, Inc". describes the new art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, pro...

From Dada to the Automatists, and from Max Ernst to Andre Breton, Gerard Durozoi here provides the most comprehensive history of the Surrealist movement. Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozo...

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1826) has long been recognized as the greatest European portrait sculptor of the late eighteenth century, flourishing during both the American and French Revolutions as well as during the Directoire and Empire in France. Whe...

Stained glass windows were part of church building practices in Northeastern Pennsylvania during its boom years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book celebrates the religious significance, artistic beauty, and regional impor...

As relatively inexpensive, transportable, and storable objects, prints occupied an important place in early modern European culture. Many of them reproduced other works of art and we now call them "reproductive" prints. They were often considered to...

Art has the power to affect our thinking, changing not only the way we view and interact with the world but also how we create it. In "Art in Mind", Ernst van Alphen probes this idea of art as a commanding force with the capacity to shape our intelle...