Product Description: An insightful new look at Balthus’s ongoing fascination with cats and girls, including his controversial paintings of young adolescents Balthus’s lifelong curiosity with the ambiguities and dark side of childhood resulted in his best-known and most iconic works...read more

Product Description: During the first half of the 19th century, the open window emerged as a consistent motif in German, Danish, French, and Russian painting and drawing. Rooms with a View is the first book to explore this intriguing theme in European art, with its Romantic intimations of unfulfilled longing and its associated qualities of poetry, luminosity, and interiority...read more

Product Description: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held in New York by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 14, 2006, to February 16, 2007. Full-page reproductions and illustrated commentary on 109 works (paintings and drawings) plus 3 illustrated essays ("I must paint you!" by Sabine Rewald; Faces of the Weimar Republic by Ian Buruma; Neue Sachlichkeit in Germany: a brief history by Matthias Eberle) and a chronology...read more

Product Description: Balthus (1908-2001) is one of the truly enigmatic personalities among the painters of the 20th century. Born Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, he grew up in Berlin, Switzerland and Paris, and later moved back and forth between France, the Far East and Rome...read more

Product Description: Caspar David Friedrich: Moonwatchers celebrates the acquisition by the Metropolitan Museum of its first painting by the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). Two Men Contemplating the Moon (ca. 1830), purchased with funds provided by Mrs...read more

One of the few case study available on undocumented immigrants, this insightful anthropological analysis humanizes a group of people too often reduced to statistics and stereotypes. Immigrants' own voices speak of the hardships of Hispanic migration to southern California, while the author's voice raises questions about power, stereotypes, settlement, and incorporation into American society.

Product Description: Book by Rewald, Sabine

This critical study of the life and work of the French artist Balthus serves as the catalogue of an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris