The First Modern Woman Artist: Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was a groundbreaking painter whose often-overlooked place in modernism forces us to reconsider our understanding…
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Nazi Germany and Modernist art
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How to Design Beautiful Books – Alex Kirby on Book Design
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Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
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The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections – by Robin Simon
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Lee Lozano: Not Working – an interview with Jo Applin
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International Women’s Day: The Remarkable Women of Yale Books
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Bookshop of the Month – Janette Ray, York
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Small Churches by Big Names – Alan Brooks explores Oxfordshire in a new Pevsner Guide
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Gardens of Court and Country – Celebrating Hampton Court Flower Show
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Enlightened Princesses: How they Shaped the Modern World
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Strindberg, A Life – Sue Prideaux on the playwright’s relationships
The Swedish playwright August Strindberg was, amongst other things, a mercurial talent, artist, occultist, husband and father. He…
Classic Modern: The Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
For the May 13 centennial of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.’s birth, Marjorie B. Cohn, author of Classic Modern, the first biography of Joseph Pulitzer,…
Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art
Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art offers a new…
Experiments in Modern Realism
Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making in Postwar European and American Art is major study which offers a new…
A Conversation with Pevsner editors Simon Bradley and Charles O’Brien
The Pevsner Architectural Guides were begun in 1951 by the architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83) with the aim…
Roman Fever: Influence, Infection and the Image of Rome 1700-1870
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, artists and travellers were lured to Rome, the home of civilized values and…
Edwardian Opulence: ‘The Gown’ by Angus Trumble
Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial…
The Mechanical Smile: Modernism and the First Fashion Shows in France and America
In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the…
Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870
The Gothic Revival movement in architecture was intimately entwined with eighteenth and nineteenth century British cultural politics. By…
The newest volume in the Pevsner Buildings of Ireland series: South Ulster, the Counties of Armagh, Cavan and Monaghan
The South Ulster volume of the Buildings of Ireland covers the inland counties of Cavan, Monaghan and Armagh,…
Arthur Danto on What Art Is
Arthur Danto, the influential art critic and a professor emeritus of aesthetics and history at Columbia University, once famously…
Ginkgo: A Few Amazing Facts
Perhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years….
Common Ground: German Photographic Cultures Across the Iron Curtain
Common Ground: German Photographic Cultures Across the Iron Curtain is the first book to thoroughly evaluate the photography that…
Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance Man
Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the…