A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art’s central role in culture today
Art can help us see the world differently or understand our place in it a little more clearly. It can move us emotionally, even if sometimes we cannot explain why. It is...
A new, expanded edition of the essential, bestselling book on feminist art
A Little Feminist History of Art is an accessible introduction to feminist art history, tracing the work of women artists from the late 1960s to the present.
Drawing on fifty key works, Charlotte Mullins offers a focused...
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The British Isles hold a unique position in the history of art, a place where local traditions fuse with international ideas in extraordinary ways
At once isolated by coastal boundaries, yet also part of larger networks of diverse peoples, these islands have always benefited from a dual perspective.
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Parsons' unnerving tension between surface and depth in her paintings evoke insightful responses from artists, authors and psychoanalysts
London-based artist Vicken Parsons (born 1957) makes intimate panel paintings of interior spaces and landscapes. Her work has beguiled writers from the fields of...
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A major monograph documenting a decade of figurative and geometric work by London-based contemporary artist Lucy Williams.
Radiant City is a major monograph documenting a decade of figurative and geometric work by London-based British contemporary artist Lucy Williams (b. 1972, Oxford). Her mixed...
A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art’s central role in culture today
“This lively volume is ideal for the precocious high-schooler, the lazy collegian . . . and any adult who wishes for greater mastery of the subject. . . . Mullins leav[es]...
Now available in paperback After a century in which the lexicon of artists' materials expanded from the classic oil, canvas, stone and plaster to include photography, film, performance, found objects and concepts, the spotlight has finally swung back. A new generation of artists--as well as some...
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Charlotte Mullins’s A Little Feminist History of Art is a short and pithy introduction to the most important feminist artworks from the late 1960s to the present.
Emerging in the late 1960s as women artists struggled to “de-gender” their work to compete in a male-dominated arena, the feminist art...
The new collected masterpieces of painter Jan Vanriet
This new book on Jan Vanriet, a pivotal figure in the Belgian narrative painting movement, shows the artist in his most personal way.
His family history, marked by World War II, and personal memories characterize the more than 100 oil paintings he...
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