Edited by Michael Edward Shapiro (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) and Peter H. Hassrick Ballinger traces Remington's life from his earliest travels in the West through his successful career as a magazine illustrator to his profoundly disturbing realization that the West he knew was passing rapidly into legend at the same time that American aesthetic tastes were … Continued
By William Craft Brumfield (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) At the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky undertook a quest to document an empire that was undergoing rapid change due to industrialization and the building of railroads. Between 1903 and 1916 Prokudin-Gorsky, who developed a pioneering method of capturing color images on glass plates, … Continued
Edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier (NHC Fellow, 2016–17) and Bill E. Lawson Pictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018 is the result of decades of collaborations and conversations among academics, artists, and activists living and working in the UK and the US. For the first time, contributors map Douglass’ eclectic and experimental visual archive across … Continued
By Carl Nordenfalk (NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1979–80; 1980–81)
By Patricia Leighten (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the art world. A major center of this creative tumult was Paris, where many avant-garde artists sought to transform modern art through their engagement with radical politics. In this provocative … Continued
By Larry Silver (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Art in History provides an illuminating overview of humanity's long tradition of creation, from the earliest cave paintings to contemporary installations. By relating works of art — primarily painting, sculpture, and graphics, but also major architectural monuments — to the societies in which they were created, Dr. Silver intensifies … Continued
By Dale Kent (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Cosimo de’ Medici (1389–1464), the fabulously wealthy banker who became the leading citizen of Florence in the fifteenth century, spent lavishly as the city’s most important patron of art and literature. This remarkable book is the first comprehensive examination of the whole body of works of art and architecture … Continued
By Beatrice Farwell (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) The French Popular Lithographic Imagery, 1815-1870 series reproduces in twelve volumes approximately 5000 nineteenth-century lithographs from the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale. Beatrice Farwell’s multivolume text-fiche catalog is an essential resource to art historians and will appeal to all those interested in nineteenth-century France.
By Ewa Kuryluk (NHC Fellow, 1988–89)
By Heather Hyde Minor (NHC Fellow, 2013–14) Giovanni Battista Piranesi was one of the most important artists eighteenth-century Europe produced. But Piranesi was more than an artist; he was an engraver and printmaker, architect, antiquities dealer, archaeologist, draftsman, publisher, bookseller, and author. In Piranesi’s Lost Words, Heather Hyde Minor considers Piranesi the author and publisher, focusing … Continued