William Turnbull (1922-2012) stands as one of Britain's foremost artists in the second half of the twentieth century. Both a sculptor and a painter, he explored the changing contemporary world and its ancient past, actively engaging with the shifting concerns of British, European and American artists. Presenting interpretations of Turnbull's ......
Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental sculptures, installations, drawings, and paintings-but those familiar with her work know that words permeate her visual art. Louise Bourgeois: The Artist as Writer offers an important new portrait of the French-born New York artist, arguing that her extensive oeuvre can be read as a work of ......
Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental sculptures, installations, drawings, and paintings-but those familiar with her work know that words permeate her visual art. Louise Bourgeois: The Artist as Writer offers an important new portrait of the French-born New York artist, arguing that her extensive oeuvre can be read as a work of ......
"Wild Art" refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often recognized as such, from graffiti to performance, self-adornment, and beyond. Picking up from their breakthrough book on the subject, Wild Art, David Carrier and Joachim ......
As newspapers and periodicals proliferated in the United States in the nineteenth century, editors seeking to carve out a large and loyal audience hired artists to pair vivid imagery with sensational fiction ripped from the headlines. In Crime and Class in Print, Wendy Jean Katz examines the emergence of a modern visual culture in pre-Civil War ......
William J. Wilson's Speculative Museum of Black Art
In The Afric-American Picture Gallery, Britt Rusert examines a work of periodical fiction by educator and activist William J. Wilson called, "Afric-American Picture Gallery," an episodic series of experimental prose and biting satire that was published in 1859. It tells the tale of a flaneur character who takes readers on a virtual tour through an ......
William J. Wilson's Speculative Museum of Black Art
In The Afric-American Picture Gallery, Britt Rusert examines a work of periodical fiction by educator and activist William J. Wilson called, "Afric-American Picture Gallery," an episodic series of experimental prose and biting satire that was published in 1859. It tells the tale of a flaneur character who takes readers on a virtual tour through an ......
A Guide to the Historic Homes and Everyday Landscapes of the Early TaosArt Colony
An exclusive look at the historic home gardens and vernacular landscapes of the modernist artists who flocked to Taos, New Mexico, during the early-twentieth century. Richly illustrated, architectural historian Audra Bellmore's Gardens of the Taos Artists centers the homes, gardens, and intimate landscapes of the Taos artist colonies and ......
