By Brenda Deen Schildgen (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) This is an account of the roles of local and national movements, and of memory and regret in the destruction or preservation of the architectural, artistic, and historic legacy of Europe in which the author examines what is cultural heritage and why it matters.
By David Cannadine (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each. Andrew Mellon, one of America’s greatest financiers, built a legendary personal … Continued
Edited by Irena Kossowska (NHC Fellow, 2009–10) Reinterpreting the Past is a modified version of the collection of papers presented during an international conference organized in September 2006 by the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The debate was attended … Continued
Edited by Elizabeth K. Helsinger (NHC Fellow, 1997–98; 2007–08) What is it about etching that renders it—according to both the poet-critic Charles Baudelaire and the visionary artist Samuel Palmer—a medium of writing? And, moreover, what makes etching equally adaptable to the expression of both memory and modernity? The “Writing” of Modern Life examines British, French, and American … Continued
By Ewa Kuryluk (NHC Fellow, 1988–89)
By David Carrier (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) Is writing a world art history possible? Does the history of art as such even exist outside the Western tradition? Is it possible to consider the history of art in a way that is not fundamentally Eurocentric? In this highly readable and provocative book, David Carrier, a philosopher and … Continued
By Stephen D. White (NHC Fellow, 2012–13)
By Gary Shapiro (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogation of authorship, the linear historiography of high modernism, and … Continued
By Elizabeth C. Mansfield (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) and H. H. Arnason Long considered the survey of modern art, this engrossing and liberally illustrated text traces the development of trends and influences in painting, sculpture, photography and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Retaining its comprehensive nature and chronological approach, it now comes thoroughly reworked … Continued
By B. N. Goswamy (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) The Life and Work of another great Indian painter from a small Hill State.