Product Description: A cursory glance at the Byzantine world would show women as illiterate, excluded from prominent political roles and second class citizens when compared to the positions and power held by men. Aside from the female members of the aristocracy, ordinary women are often incidental in both the literature and art of the period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is considered a pioneer of the Post-Minimal and Conceptual art movements. Perhaps best known for his paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Bochner became deeply involved with photography in the mid- to late 1960s, although most of these works have only recently been exhibited...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of 60 essays by the former students of John Shearman, mentor of art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance and Baroqu e, formerly of Harvard, Princeton, etc.

Product Description: In a two-volume set, Albrecht Durer's lifelong fascination with Christ's Passion is the theme. The artist imagines Christas a man in a body, inscribes himself into the image and accounts for his viewer in his art.

During his expatriate years in France (1948-54), Ellsworth Kelly developed the visual strategies that would make him one of the most important artists of our era. This is most evident in his French drawings, here presented thoroughly for the first time, together with a searching commentary by noted scholar Yve-Alain Bois. In drawing, Kelly evolved four strategies for making art: transfer, chance, modular grid, and monochrome panel. His goal was to develop an alternative to traditional composition at once radically inventive and stubbornly personal. This bi-lingual German/English catalog presents an intimate view of the process of artistic conception. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Lee, Pamela, Mehring, Christine, Schwartz, Dieter, Schneegass, Christian, Vicnius, Julie