Looking East
Western Artists and the Allure of Japan
A craze for all things Japanese beginning in the late nineteenth century brought a radical shift in Western art that came to be known as japonisme...
Ansel Adams
Available exclusively from the MFA Bookstore and Shop! Since Ansel Adams emerged as this country’s first photographic “superstar” in the late 1960s...
Fired Earth, Woven Bamboo
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics and Bamboo Art
The blossoming of contemporary crafts in Japan that began in the twentieth century is rooted in a long and rich tradition of exquisite design and...
She Who Tells a Story
Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World
She Who Tells a Story introduces the pioneering work of twelve leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world: Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra...
Paul Gauguin
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
The life of Paul Gauguin is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. Abandoning a career in banking, a family, and his...
John Singer Sargent Murals in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Born in Italy to American parents, trained in Paris, and a resident of London, Sargent became Boston’s favorite painter in the 1880s. Acclaimed on...
Arts of China
The Chinese art collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is one of the finest outside East Asia, with particularly superb holdings of paintings...
John Singer Sargent Watercolors
Sargent’s approach to watercolor was unconventional. Disregarding contemporary aesthetic standards that called for carefully delineated and composed...
Hippie Chic
The 1960s saw a revolution in fashion that was born, like most things new and hip in that era, of youth rebellion in the streets. For the first time...
Arts of Korea
Arts of Korea is now available as an enhanced e-book. The publication explores one of the finest collections of Korean art outside of East Asia...