Futurist Manifestos
On February 20, 1909, a belligerent manifesto appeared on the front page of the staid Paris newspaper Le Figaro and had immediate repercussions...
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Annotated Edition
This uniquely comprehensive edition includes the revealing and fascinating correspondence between Kandinsky and the book’s first translator and two...
Utopia Parkway
The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
No artist ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell (1903‒1972), the autodidact American genius prized for his disquieting shadow boxes, who stands...
The Innocent Eye
On Modern Literature and the Arts
These “shrewd, beautifully written, ‘tough-minded’ essays” (William Arrowsmith) by the author of The Banquet Years and Forbidden Knowledge focus on...
The Blaue Reiter Almanac
The Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) art movement was founded in 1911 by the young painters Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, and remained active in Europe...
Marcel Duchamp
The Bachelor Stripped Bare
Arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century, Duchamp was also a shrewd manager of his image — to the bedazzlement of many who have...
Art Czar
The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg
Balanced, informed, and beautifully written, this is the definitive portrait of the man widely considered the 20th century’s most influential art...
Art of the Natural World
Resonances of Wild Nature in Chinese Sculptural Art
Prized for over a millennium by Chinese literati, scholars’ rocks—stones sculpted by the elements into evocative miniature landscapes—have long been...
The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski
Editorial Reviews “A unique and fascinating memoir” (ForeWord). “This gripping overview of the artist’s life and work is especially welcome” (ARTnews)...
Sargent's Daughters
The Biography of a Painting
Henry James credited Sargent with a "knock-down insolence of talent" and few of his works demonstrate those skills as much as The Daughters of Edward...