The first major book to consider the life and work of Robert Arneson, A Troublesome Subject tells the fascinating story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of internati
"The first major monograph on Zhang Xiaogang (b. 1958), a leading Chinese contemporary artist, world‐renowned for his haunting, surrealist works. Both a retrospective of his pa
In his last and most overarching essay on the subject, Rudolf Arnheim encourages us to see the range of individuality in children's drawings and to recognize the child's creation of "significant form"
This book brings together thirteen distinguished critics and scholars to explore children's art and its profound but rarely documented influence on the evolution of modern art. It shows that children'
How did artists of the twentieth century use their work to respond to their unique personal experiences and moment in history? This provocative question is explored in this new book on American art.
Alice Aycock (b. 1946) emerged onto the New York art scene in the 1970s and is best known for her large-scale public sculptures that often combine an industrial appearance with references to weightles
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are renowned for their dramatic and innovative public projects. Their installations often feature fabric?sometimes wrapped around existing structures or used to create large-
Human beings have made images continuously for more than thirty thousand years. The oldest known cave paintings are six times older than the first forms of written language. Images help us organize ou