Art & Architecture
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Michelle Komie
Publisher, Art & Architecture
Our list in art and architectural history is encyclopedic in its approach to subject matter, period, and geography, with titles ranging from authoritative, award-winning scholarly studies and primary materials to volumes of work by living artists and exhibition catalogues.
Designed to educate, inspire, and engage a wide readership, our titles seek to establish connections with a broad range of neighboring disciplines in the humanities, and enable readers to understand the place of visual cultures and the built environment within the wider world.
New & Noteworthy
Edited by Diana Seave Greenwald
Featured Audiobooks
Series
Ideas
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The eloquence of color charts
Researching color sampling meant reconstructing entire worlds from scraps of fabric or daubs of paint.
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ISMs: Quotations for a new generation
While Einstein, Darwin, and Jung conducted most of their intellectual work in writing, artists rarely do the same. But it is still possible to know their words.
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When is an apple not an apple?
When it comes time to use images to support a written report, a presentation, or a publication, oftentimes people find themselves stumped. The early years of education introduce students to the building blocks of verbal literacy, but very few of us are taught the ways in which images communicate their magic.
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Robin Schuldenfrei on Objects in Exile
Robin Schuldenfrei reveals how the process of migration was crucial to the development of modernism.
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The artist Mina Loy: Modernist constellation
Not since Marcel Duchamp curated Mina Loy’s last one-person exhibition in New York at the Bodley Gallery in 1959 has the latter artist risen above the obscuring cloud of mystery and notoriety that set to her heels in 1914.
