Book Reports

This sixteenth-century artist, whose paintings are deeply layered and symbolic, has continued to influence contemporary artists. More than forty of Pieter Bruegel’s works remain in museums or in private collections and are rarely loaned out. The Master compiles his entire body of work into one book.

This playfully informative book draws the comparison between Post-Impressionism and contemporary art by juxtaposing the multi-disciplinary works of David Hockney’s landscapes and the paintings of the Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh.

This is a revised and expanded edition of an out-of-print monograph of Anna Atkin’s pioneering photographs from the mid-1800s. Her cyanotype process was invented in 1842 and is still used today. By documenting algae, plants, and flowers, Atkins’ work is not only beautiful but scientifically important.

Linda Nochlin was one of the most important voices in art criticism. Representing Women compiles Nochlin’s essays on the ways in which women were portrayed as subjects in art over the last two centuries.

African slaves in the Americas who escaped their captors created new identities by establishing new communities and joining existing indigenous tribes. This book chronicles documentary photographer Charles Fréger’s work with the modern day descendants of these slaves, who are pictured in the elaborate masquerade costumes of their ancestors.

A rare look at the collection of Teto Ahrenberg, a contemporary art collector. Between the 1940s and the 1980s, Ahrenberg amassed more than 6,000 artworks. Not only was he a collector but he also facilitated exhibits and commissions from both established and young artists.

In the early twentieth century, the Bauhaus was a hugely influential group of German teachers and students. By 1933 the Nazis had closed the school, and these designers and artists were forced to find work elsewhere. Bauhaus Goes West tells the story of the members who found opportunity to continue their work in Britain and the United States.

This book is a survey of more than 350 images created in the twenty-first century that relate to the human body. Body displays work from iconic photographers such as Cindy Sherman, Lauren Greenfield, and Herb Ritts. In between, selfies from Kim Kardashian and other images explore the modern way we look at ourselves.