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  • Design in the USAby Jeffrey L. Meikle

    Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 25.99

    From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lampshade, the world in which we live has been profoundly influenced for over a century by the work of American designers. Meikle explores the fascinating history of American design, from the industrialization of the nineteenth century and the mass production of the machine age to the... more...

  • Verwondering over de schilderijenproductie in de Gouden Eeuwby Eric Jan Sluijter

    Amsterdam University Press 2003; US$ 10.50

    rede uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar in de Kunstgeschiedenis van de Nieuwere Tijd aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam op vrijdag 25 oktober 2002 more...

  • The Ongoing Momentby Geoff Dyer

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.95

    Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things?barber shops, benches, hands, roads,... more...

  • The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artistsby Ann Lee Morgan

    Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 16.99

    With the advent of abstract expressionism in the 1940s, America became the white hot center of the artistic universe. Now, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists, the first such volume to appear in three decades, Ann Lee Morgan offers an informative, insightful, and long overdue resource on our nation's artistic heritage. Featuring... more...

  • Art in Reproductionby Robert Verhoogt

    Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 65.00

    This illuminating study examines the cultural meaning of artistic reproduction in a refreshingly new context through its consideration of how three artists managed the reproduction of their work. more...

  • The Visible Worldby Thijs Weststeijn

    Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 65.00

    Provides an ambitious overview of Dutch artists' ideas on painting more...

  • Pricelessby Robert K. Wittman; John Shiffman

    Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00

    The Wall Street Journal called him ?a living legend.? The London Times dubbed him ?the most famous art detective in the world.?   In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI?s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair... more...

  • Lucas Cranach the Elderby Bonnie Noble

    University Press of America 2009; US$ 38.99

    This book presents Cranach's Reformation painting to a broader audience and explains the pictorial strategies Cranach devised to clarify and interpret Lutheran thought. For specialists in Reformation history, this study offers an interpretation of Cranach's art as an agent of religious change. For historians and students of Renaissance art, this study... more...

  • Ivory, Bone, and Related Wood Findsby Wilma Olch Stern; Danae Hadjilazaro Thimme

    BRILL 2007; US$ 258.00

    Hundreds of decorated ivory and bone fragments from furniture and parts from at least three crossed-leg chairs, survived under seawater in an apsidal room at Kenchreai, the Eastern port of ancient Corinth. This book discusses the excavated remains that provide an important addition to our knowledge of the artistic production of late Roman Egypt. more...