Ten leading scholars broaden our understandings of modernism by centering Black artists and experiences with beautifully illustrated essays.

A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print.

A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States.

This book examines the legacy of influential Black artists in the nation’s capital as well as the key institutions and communities that contributed to the Washington Black Renaissance.

A profound examination of the complex constructs that have kept “outsider” and self-taught artists on the margins of the mainstream.

Based on her 2011 Mellon Lectures held at the National Gallery of Art, Mary Beard tells the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years.

Can the reception of a single, widely disseminated book offer a historical road map for a global art history? This is the question posed by the editors of this volume of essays, which charts the enduring response to Heinrich Wölfflin’s Principles of Art History.

A historic first showing outside Japan of Itō Jakuchū's thirty-scroll series Colorful Realm of Living Beings (c. 1757–1766) at the National Gallery of Art was the occasion for this collection of twelve essays that reimagine the concepts of the artist and art-making as they were understood in early modern Japan.

The complex facets of cubism remain relevant subjects in art history today, a century after Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed the revolutionary style. This collection of essays presents new lines of inquiry and accounts of crucial moments in the reception of cubism by curators, artists, and critics.