America Goes Modern
The Rise of the Industrial Designer
During the 1920s and 1930s, the speed of modern life in the United States, accelerated by the invention of cars, airplanes, electric lighting...
Real Photo Postcards
Pictures from a Changing Nation
The ubiquity of photography and social media today makes it hard to imagine a time when it was not possible for ordinary people to take their own...
Genji
The Prince and the Parodies
Lady Murasaki鈥檚 Tale of Genji has delighted readers for more than 1,000 years and inspired writers to create numerous parodies. Artists have responded...
Kay Nielsen
An Enchanted Vision
The Danish artist Kay Nielsen鈥檚 luminous interpretations of fairytales and legends from around the world are among the most celebrated book...
Fabric of a Nation
American Quilt Stories
A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African...
European Painting and Sculpture before 1800
Major works spanning the medieval era to the Enlightenment from the 澳门六合彩开奖现场直播's superlative collection The tremendous political, religious and cultural...
Juno
A Colossal Roman Statue
The amazing story of a monumental statue If this monumental Roman statue could speak, she would tell of travels from a theater in ancient Rome to the...
Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection
The seventeenth century in the Netherlands was famously a golden age of painting. This book assembles some two dozen masterworks from the collection...
Cy Twombly
Making Past Present
Cy Twombly鈥檚 first visit to Italy as a young man ignited a lifelong passion for the ancient world that is everywhere present in his art. Painted...
Arts of South Asia
The arts of South Asia arise from a large geographical area, comprising India and the countries that surround it, and span more than four millennia...