"Antoine Watteau painted his engaging and ravishing fêtes galantes during a period in which the art of polite conversation flourished in France. In this innovative study, Mary Vidal shows that conversation was central to Watteau's images of sociability and provided the framework for figural and formal relationships even in his military, mythological, theatrical, and religious works. ... [details]
Anthology of the collected writings of Leonardo de Vinci. Edited by Martin Kemp; selected and translated by Kemp and Margaret Walker. "The book begins by looking at Leonardo's general principles of painting, including the famous paragone, the comparison of the arts. ... [details]
Critical text by Robert L. Herbert. "A fresh and penetrating look at the Impressionist painters - in particular, those who identified themselves and their art with Paris and the cultural ferment that began in the eighteen-sixties. ... [details]
Artists'' book / facsimile of Duchamp''s "Manual of Instructions" / notebooks related to his work "Étant Donnés : 1. La Chute d''Eau 2. Le Gaz d''Éclairage ..." with drawings, collages, foldouts, and photographs. ... [details]
Critical theory, by Thomas E. Crow, "examines how the ambitions of artists in eighteenth-century France were affected by public opinions about the arts—the tastes of the art critics, of the state, and of the crowds who visited art salons. ... [details]
Catalogue raisonné of The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University. The Société Anonyme, founded in 1920 by Marcel Duchamp, Katherine Dreier and Man Ray, was responsible for introducing contemporary European Art to the American public. ... [details]
Large exhibition catalogue for retrospective held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, 1983. With writing by Miró, Robert S. Lubar, Jacques Dupin, Werner Schmalenbach, and Thomas M. ... [details]
Volume 2 of the Jackson Pollock catalogue raisonné documents paintings produced between 1948 and 1955. [details]
