Category: Art History

Demuth Exhibition Opens this Saturday

The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, TX will present Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster, an intimate exhibition of the work of one of American’s greatest… READ MORE

Chimneys and Towers–Now Available

Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster Betsy Fahlman. With an essay by Claire Barry 208 pages | 9 1/2 x 11 | 60 color, 100 b/w illus…. READ MORE

Love Entwined–Now Available

Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America Helen Sheumaker 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 24 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4014-6 | $45.00 | £29.50 Using… READ MORE

More Awards for Landscape Architecture Books

Elizabeth Hyde’s Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV has received the 2007 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award by the Society of Architectural Historians "for the… READ MORE

Dramatic Impressions–Now Available

Dramatic Impressions: Japanese Theatre Prints from the Gilbert Luber Collection Frank L. Chance and Julie Nelson Davis. Edited by Dilys Winegrad 64 pages | 8 1/2 x 11 | 55… READ MORE

Tropic of Venice Contest Winner

Tropic of Venice author Margaret Doody knows Venice. So does Bonnie Hollis, winner of our Tropic of Venice contest. Over 360 people took our Tropic of Venice online quiz. 15… READ MORE

Cottom’s Clever Chiasmus

A review of Daniel Cottom’s Unhuman Culture appears in the January/February 2007 Bloomsbury Review. Critic Larry T. Shillock writes: Unhuman Culture takes the categories of the person and the Other,… READ MORE

“Venice” Makes ForeWord’s Big Ten

ForeWord magazine lists Margaret Doody’s Tropic of Venice among the Big Ten Outstanding Books from University Presses for 2006. The ForeWord review begins by placing Doody in some impressive company:… READ MORE