By Townsend Ludington (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) The first complete biography of an underrated American modernist painter tells of his lifestyle, his extensive travels, and his relationships with other artists such as Alfred Stieglitz, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein.
By B. N. Goswamy (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) The Life and Work of another great Indian painter from a small Hill State.
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
By Joanna Woods-Marsden (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) The autonomous self-portrait, a central mode of expression in Western art, was a Renaissance invention. This book explores for the first time the genesis and early development of this important genre as it took place in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Joanna Woods-Marsden examines a series of … Continued
Edited by Elizabeth Otto (NHC Fellow, 2017–18) and Patrick Rössler A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at the heart of art … Continued
By Richard E. Spear (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) In this highly original study of Italian baroque master Guido Reni (1575-1642), Richard Spear paints a compelling portrait of the artist — his complexities, his formative experiences, his cultural surroundings, and his unique sensibilities. Spear views Reni's career from a wide variety of perspectives and sets his life … Continued
Edited by Elizabeth Otto (NHC Fellow, 2017–18) and Patrick Rössler Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective reclaims the other half of Bauhaus history, yielding a new understanding of the radical experiments in art and life undertaken at the Bauhaus and the innovations that continue to resonate with viewers around the world today. The story of the Bauhaus … Continued
By Martha Woodmansee (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented art as we know it today.
By Richard J. Powell (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) The African diaspora — a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism — has generated a wide array of artistic achievements in our century, from blues to reggae, from the paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner to the video installations of Keith Piper. This brilliant new … Continued
By Isabel Wünsche (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) The artists of the Organic School of the Russian avant-garde found inspiration as well as a model for artistic growth in the creative principles of nature. Isabel Wünsche analyzes the artistic influences, intellectual foundations, and scientific publications that shaped the formation of these artists, the majority of whom were … Continued