Art & Architecture
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Michelle Komie
Publisher, Art & Architecture
Our list in art and architectural history is encyclopedic in its approach to subject matter, period, and geography, with titles ranging from authoritative, award-winning scholarly studies and primary materials to volumes of work by living artists and exhibition catalogues.
Designed to educate, inspire, and engage a wide readership, our titles seek to establish connections with a broad range of neighboring disciplines in the humanities, and enable readers to understand the place of visual cultures and the built environment within the wider world.
New & Noteworthy
Edited by Diana Seave Greenwald
Featured Audiobooks
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Ideas
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Collage beyond modernism
What happens when we try and trace a history of collage back across time and space?
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Monuments on fire
In October 2023, one monument met its end for the sake of another. A bronze equestrian statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee that had stood in Charlottesville, Virginia since 1924 was sent to the furnace to be melted down, piece by piece, and formed into uniform rectangular ingots. The developing afterlife of the Lee statue is part of another history—one that transcends the American context and dates back centuries earlier.
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Narrative images, sacred places
Close inspection of a "kalamkari" shows the work is exemplary of early modern temple paintings, which in form and subject mirror the concentric enclosing walls of the Hindu temple.
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The eloquence of color charts
Researching color sampling meant reconstructing entire worlds from scraps of fabric or daubs of paint.
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ISMs: Quotations for a new generation
While Einstein, Darwin, and Jung conducted most of their intellectual work in writing, artists rarely do the same. But it is still possible to know their words.
