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Christian Krohg's Naturalism

By Øystein Sjåstad

The Norwegian painter, novelist, and social critic Christian Krohg (1852–1925) is best known for creating highly political paintings of workers, prostitutes, and Skagen fishermen of the 1880s and for serving as a mentor to Edvard...

Constructing Revolution

Soviet Propaganda Posters, 1917-1947

By Kristina A. Toland

The eruption of the First World War, the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and the subsequent civil war broke down established political and social structures and brought an end to the Tsarist Empire. Russia...

Sacred to the Touch

Nordic and Baltic Religious Wood Carving

By Thomas A. DuBois

With near-mythical forests of birch and pine, the Nordic and Baltic countries boast a rich tradition of religious wood carving that is in many ways emblematic of their cultures. Sacred to the Touch examines the...

René Lalique

Art Deco Gems from the Steven and Roslyn Shulman Collection

By Katie Buckingham and Rachel Belle

René Lalique: Selections from the Steven and Roslyn Shulman Collection introduces the artistic innovations and legacy of renowned French Art Deco artist René Lalique. Born outside of Paris in 1860, Lalique was recognized as one...

Dressed with Distinction

Garments from Ottoman Syria

By Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood. Introduction by Joanna Barrkman

For hundreds of years, skilled craftspeople in the Syrian centers of Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs produced intricately woven textiles for the royal courts, worldly merchants, and elite Bedouin families of the Ottoman Empire. City dwellers...

Munch's Ibsen

A Painter's Visions of a Playwright

By Joan Templeton

Drawing on printed and archival sources, including Munch's extensive unpublished writings, Munch's Ibsen provides a comprehensive account of the connection between the two great Norwegian modernists. Situating the interlocking careers of Edvard Munch and Henrik...

The Body in Time

Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France

By Tamar Garb

The Body in Time looks at two different genres in relation to the construction of femininity in late nineteenth-century France: Degas's representation of ballet dancers and the transforming tradition of female portraiture. Class, gender, power,...

Monet at Étretat

By Chiyo Ishikawa

One understudied aspect of the life and works of Oscar-Claude Monet (1840–1926) is the artist’s engagement with the town of Étretat on the Normandy coast of France during the mid-1880s. Monet traveled there twice for...

John Russell

Australia's French Impressionist

By Wayne Tunnicliffe

Australian artist John Russell (1858–1930), an active and influential member of the French nineteenth-century avant garde, was a close friend of Vincent van Gogh and Auguste Rodin, taught impressionist color theory to Henri Matisse, and...

Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age

Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum

By Gerdien Wuestman

At the time, the art of the seventeenth‐century Dutch Republic was admired and sought after far beyond the country’s borders. To this day, works by painters such as Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Johannes Vermeer are...

Victorian Watercolours

By Peter Raissis

This book features over eighty artworks by more than seventy artists that represent the glory of British watercolors from the Victorian period. Artists include: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne‐Jones, George John Pinwell and Myles Birket...

The Mingins Photo Collection

1288 Pictures of Early Western Tattooing from the Henk Schiffmacher Collection

By Henk Schiffmacher and Arlette Kouwenhoven

"A very quiet man, smoking all the time. He used to tattoo while seated on a little bench in the back room of his house at 59 Redfern Road, Harleston, in London, while his wife...

Prints and Drawings

Europe 1500-1900

By Peter Raissis

Drawn from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this book reproduces 90 works by over 70 artists that represent a broad panorama of the development of the graphic arts in Europe...

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

A Critical Study

By Patrick Grant

Vincent van Gogh’s letters are frequently admired for their exceptional literary quality, but there is no extended critique of this aspect of his writing. Addressing key constellations of metaphors and ideas, The Letters of Vincent...