feature post Archive
-
0
Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Posted on March 5, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century opens with Giovanni’s Boldini’s Portrait of a Lady, which features a popular society woman seated on an […] -
0
Société Anonyme
Posted on February 15, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks In 1920, three luminaries of the American art world—Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, founded Société Anonyme. Frustrated by America’s indifference and frequent hostility to its artists, […] -
0
Jasper Johns: Ways of Seeing
Posted on January 2, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks An interaction with the works of Jasper Johns is an interaction with the processes of perception. His enormous impact on the development of Pop art, Minimalism and Conceptual […] -
0
Staff Holiday Picks: For the Radical Photographer
Posted on December 31, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks Yale University Press Executive Editor, William Frucht, weighs in on the history of photography and its intersection with art and politics from the pages of The Radical Camera: New York’s […] -
1
The Civil War and American Art
Posted on December 5, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks In the century and a half since the Civil War, more than 75,000 books have been published about the war and its legacy. The figure speaks to the […] -
0
Rinpa Aesthetics and the Art of Poetry
Posted on November 12, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks Caroline Hayes— Upon visiting two exhibitions currently on display in New York City on the subject of the Japanese Rinpa aesthetic—at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Designing Nature: […]