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Edward Hopper Encyclopedia

This comprehensive encyclopedia is a cross-referenced guide to Hopper's life and art, with entries focusing on his oeuvre, including his most noteworthy oil paintings, watercolors and etchings, and th...

Unfinished Paintings

Unfinished paintings can be seen in many of the world's great collections, including that of the National Gallery of Scotland: they fascinate the viewer and raise intriguing questions. What circumstan...

The Unknown Masterpiece

A New York Review Books OriginalOne of Honoré de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or...

An American Experiment

In the first decades of the 20th century, George Bellows and other painters of the Ashcan School, a loosely connected group of gritty, urban realists, created images of the city from street level. Fol...

Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena (1260-1555)

The city of Siena, one of Italy's major artistic centers, was home to many celebrated painters, among them Duccio, Simone Martini, Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, Sassetta and Beccafumi. This generous...

Dali

Surveys the life and work of the Surrealist artist, and describes how his artistic vision transformed great works from earlier periods in art history.

Modernity and Modernism

Death of the Mad Hatter

If the king loses his head, then the Queen with a Bleeding Heart would rule the Red Court until Time ceased to move forward. When a second carried on for infinity, every creature in Wonderland would t...

From Word to Play: A Handbook for Directors

Cicely Berry, voice director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, is one of the most influential voice coaches of our time. In her astonishing new book, she looks closely at the interchange between soun...

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

John Ashbery's most renowned collection of poetry -- Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award First released in 1975, Self-Portrait in a Convex...

Coming of Age

What do the words elderly, old, and aged really mean? How are they used by society, and how in turn do they define the generation that we are taught to respect and love but instead castigate and avoid...