Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism by Erika Doss Doss chronicles an historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. By situating painting within the evolving sociopolitical and cultural context of the Depression and the Cold War, Doss explains the reasons for this change and casts light on its significance for contemporary culture.

Blake's Poetry and Designs by William Blake; Mary L. Johnson; John F. Grant The major poetic and prose works of Blake are accompanied by his illuminations and selected criticism.

The life of William Blake by Mona Wilson A biography of the life of artist William Blake.

William Blake's Divine Comedy Illustrations by William Blake Blake's sublime watercolors are not only peerless interpretations of Dante's vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, they are dramatic expressions of the great artist's integrity and imagination. Some apocalyptic, others angelic, the 102 plates range from completely finished pieces to rough sketches.

The complete work of Michelangelo by Michelangelo Buonarroti Historic and artistic personality of Michelangelo, as well as his sculpture, painting, architecture, drawings, and writings.

Michelangelo : his life, his times, his era by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes Biographical information on Michelangelo.

Michelangelo Drawings: closer to the master by Hugo Chapman This lovely book focuses on more than 250 of his drawings executed in chalk, charcoal, and pen and ink. Distinguished art historian Hugo Chapman examines this array of works and discusses how the act of drawing figured prominently in Michelangelo's work.

The Sculpture of Michelangelo by Umberto Baldini; Liberto Perugi (Photographer) Photographs show all of Michelangelo's surviving sculptures and are accompanied by comments on the background of each work.

Cézanne : a biography by John Rewald This is a study tracing the life of Cezanne from his boyhood in Aix through the tumultuous Paris period to his last creative but lonely years in his native town. Letters, documents and photographs are included. Rewald has also compiled a catalogue raisonne of Cezanne's watercolours."

Cézanne in Provence by Philip Conisbee; Denis Coutagne; Francoise Cachin (Contribution by); Isabelle Cahn (Contribution by) Beautifully illustrated with some 160 paintings and watercolors, Cezanne in Provence offers fascinating insights into a true genius in the history of art and his beloved native countryside.

Cezanne Watercolors by Gotz Adriani; Russell M. Stockman Shows a selection of the French painter's watercolors, describes the development of his technique, and provides background information for each work of art.

Letters on Cézanne by Rainer Maria Rilke; Joel Agee; Clara Rilke Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his "New Poems," But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge."

Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne by Michael Taylor; Matthew Gale; Max Ernst; Gerard Tempest "In eight essays the authors explore the importance of the Ariadne series in the context of the Paris art world before World War I and in later developments in de Chirico's career. An unpublished text by Max Ernst and an interview with Gerard Tempest, who was tutored by de Chirico in the late 1940s, shed new light on the artist and his working methods."

Modern Antiquity by Christopher Green; Jens M Daehner; Silvia Loreti Focuses on the reinventions and transformations of antiquity in the work of four culturally and politically diverse artists between 1905 and 1935. In distinctly different ways, classicizing creations such as de Chirico's enigmatic piazzas, Picasso's post-Cubist women, Léger's mechanized nudes, and Picabia's Transparencies reflect what the eyes and minds of these artists found so arresting in the arts of antiquity and how they made those arts modern.

Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters by Jodi Hauptman; Michael Rooks; Samantha Friedman This book highlights the work of twelve masters of 20th-century art: Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, Joan Mira, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol.

Chuck Close by Christopher Finch Finch provides an engaging, in-depth analysis of Close's portraits on canvas, from the continuous-tone airbrushed heads of the 1960's and '70's to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past two decades. The more than 300 illustrations featured in the book survey almost all of Close's paintings and include his most recent work, a selection of his prints and multiples and examples of his photographic oeuvre.

Close Reading: Chuck Close and the art of the self-portrait by Martin Friedman Includes a comprehensive biography of Close that deals with his childhood and college years, his struggles with learning disabilities, the origins and perfecting of his near photographic painting technique, and his sudden illness in 1988, which led to almost complete paralysis, and the degree of recovery that enabled him to continue his painting career.

Dali's Optical Illusions by Dawn Ades This visually gripping book focuses on a central but relatively unexamined aspect of the work of Salvador Dali: his fascination with optical effects and visual perception. The book examines Dali's use of various pictorial techniques, photography, and holograms to further his exploration of visual perception and the ways that optical illusion affects our sense of reality.

Essential Dali by Kirsten Bradbury; Jonathan Wood Discusses the life and works of the Spanish artist Salvador Dali.

The Persistence of Memory by Meredith Etherington-Smith The author penetrates the artist's self-mythologizing facade to reveal the man behind the outrageous mustache and cryptic canvasses: his Catalan childhood; his relationships with Garcia Lorca, Bunuel, Breton, Picasso, Miro, de Chirico, Man Ray, Ernst, and Eluard; Dalí's fixations, phobias, and Surrealist pranks; and his bizarre marriage to Gala--muse, business manager, nymphomaniac, gold digger, and finally tormentor.

Salvador Dalí 1904-1989 : the paintings by Robert Descharnes A major study of this 20th-Century master, offering the most complete edition of his known paintings ever published. While not a catalogue raisonne, it contextualizes Dali's work, relating the paintings to his writings and drawings, as well as to other kinds of work by this versatile artist.

Honore Daumier by Pierre Cabanne This definitive book presents Daumier's drawings, paintings, sculptures and lithographs, along with an insightful text by the distinguished French art historian Pierre Cabanne, and a comprehensive collection of notes, details and important background research.

Degas and the Dance by Jill Devonyar; Richard Kendall Among the supreme masterpieces of 19th-century art are Edgar Degas' dramatic, incisive and often brilliantly coloured pictures of the ballet. He has enormous popularity as the foremost artist of the dance - with more than half his vast body of paintings, pastels, drawings and sculptures devoted to the on- and off-stage activities of ballerinas - and this catalogue, accompanying an exhibition, illuminates the theme in its historical context.

Degas by Roy McMullen Recounts the life and career of the great French impressionist, describes his complex personality, and discusses his painting style and experiments.

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix by Walter Pach Eugène Delacroix's journal along with an introduction and supplements.

World of Delacroix by Tom Prideaux A profusely illustrated account of the life, career, works and times of Eugene Delacroix, master 19th century French painter, with background information on other artists of the time.

Albrecht Dürer : master printmaker by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston An exhibition on Albrecht Durer from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

The complete paintings of Dürer by Albrecht Dürer An outline of the artist's critical history, his writings, and his catalogue of works and paintings in colour.

Dürer : his art and life by Fedja Anzelewsky A biography of Albrecht Dürer.

Dürer by Simon Monneret ; translation by Lucia Wildt An introduction to Dürer.

M. C. Escher Kaleidocycles by Doris S. Schattschneider; Wallace Walker Combining interesting explanations with 3-dimensional models to cut out and glue together, this book is an exploration of the symmetries of Escher's plane tilings.

Visions of Symmetry by Doris S. Schattschneider Visions of symmetry contains Escher's complete set of symmetry drawings reproduced in full colour and two Escher notebooks (which contain his theory of symmetry). In all, there are more than 350 intriguing illustrations (about 80 of which have never been published.)

The world of M.C. Escher by M. C. Escher Escher's works--woodcuts, lithographs, and drawings, accompanied by quotes from the author--are brilliantly arranged to form a cinematic look at his achievements. Here is the magical world of the artist's mind, an uncharted realm full of exotic conceptions and inventions.

Gauguin by Alan Bowness This new anthology presents many of the great masterpieces that Gauguin painted in Paris, Brittany, Tahiti and the Marquesas, chosen from museums and private collections all over the world.

Gauguin: a retrospective by Marla Prather; Charles F. Stuckey This book features hundreds of illustrations, including 125 colorplates. The text comprises writings of the artist's friends and colleagues as well as those of such late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century luminaries. The anthology also contains selections from Gauguin's own writings--including the celebrated Noa Noa.

Gauguin and Impressionism by Richard R. Brettell; Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark This handsomely illustrated book reconsiders Gauguin's apprenticeship as an Impressionist and reassesses his contributions to the movement through the extraordinarily subtle and beautiful paintings, sculpture, and ceramic works he created during the years before 1887.

Paul Gauguin by Michel Hoog; Rizzoli Staff Explores Gauguin's childhood and youth, his training in Paris, his flight from Western civilization, and his influence.

Alberto Giacometti by Laurie Wilson Alberto Giacometti, one of the most important artists of the 20th century, was also one of the most enigmatic. In this interpretation of Giacometti and his work, art historian and psychoanalyst Laurie Wilson demonstrates how the artist's secret beliefs and emotional scars are reflected in his evocative sculpture, drawings and paintings.

Alberto Giacometti by Herbert Matter (Photographer); Mercedes Matter (Text by); Louis Finkelstein (Foreword by); Andrew Forge (Introduction by) This outstanding volume, a must for collectors, includes a perceptive essay by painter Mercedes Matter, the photographer's widow. Her theme is how Giacometti used the ancient materials of clay and paint to fashion an extreme, contemporary self-awareness.

Alberto Giacometti by Peter Selz Catalog of a comprehensive exhibition of Glacometti's work organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1965.

Goya: images of women by Janis Tomlinson; Francisco Calvo Serraller (Contribution by); Aileen Ribeiro (Contribution by); Concha Herrero Carretero (Contribution by); Anna Reuter (Contribution by) This groundbreaking book is the first to examine the representations of women within Goya's multifaceted art, and in so doing, it sheds new light on the evolution of his artistic creativity as well as on the roles assumed by women in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spain.

Goya by Robert Hughes In a work that is at once interpretive biography and cultural epic, Hughes grounds Goya firmly in the context of his time, taking us on a wild romp through Spanish history; from the brutality and easy violence of street life to the fiery terrors of the Holy Inquisition to the grave realities of war, Hughes shows us in vibrant detail the cultural forces that shaped Goya's work.

Goya's Last Works by Jonathan Brown; Susan Grace Galassi Presents fifty-one key works from Goya's late period along with two essays that illuminate his works of that time.

Life and Complete Work of Francisco by Outlet Book Company Staff; Random House Value Publishing Staff This book traces the evolution of Goya's work throughout his life. Includes reproductions of all his paintings, drawings, and engravings.

Edward Hopper: an intimate biography by Gail Levin In this intimate biography she reveals the true nature and personality of the man himself--and of the woman who shared his life, the artist Josephine Nivison.

Edward Hopper and the American Imagination by Deborah Lyons; Adam D. Weinberg; Julie Grau; Edward Hopper This volume includes fifty-nine of Hopper's most important works in full color, as well as original works by thirteen renowned fiction writers and poets that pay homage to, or make reference to, the ways in which Hopper pictured our world.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres by Gaëtan Picon A biography and collection of the works of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.

Frida Kahlo by Judy Chicago; Frances Borzello Features each work on its own spread, facing commentary by Chicago and Borzello. Essays explore Kahlo's many facets: woman, artist, historical figure, and inspiration. Designed to evoke a Mexican retablo, or altarpiece, this volume reframes Frida Kahlo for a contemporary audience.

Frida Kahlo by Martha Zamora Seventy-five of Frida Kahlo's paintings, reproduced here in lavish color, accompany numerous historical photographs and the author's descriptive text, chronicling the significant episodes in Kahlo's life.

Gustav Klimt by Eva di Stefano \With more than 300 beautifully reproduced pictures, paintings, and photographs, it presents Klimt's entire artistic production: posters for exhibitions, erotic drawings, and pictorial masterpieces such as The Kiss, Death and Life, and Tree of Life, along with countless portraits such as the famous Adele Bloch-Bauer I.

The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz by Kaethe Kollwitz; Hans Kollwitz (Editor); Richard Winston (Translator); Clara Winston (Translator); Hudson Walker (Foreword by) One of the great German Expressionist artists, Kaethe Kollwitz wrote little of herself. But her diary, kept from 1900 to her death in 1945, and her brief essays and letters express, as well as explain, much of the spirit, wisdom, and internal struggle which was eventually transmuted into her art.

Kathe Kollwitz: woman and artist by Martha Kearns Generously illustrated with many striking, seldom-see reproductions from private collections, assembled in one volume for the first time.

Prints and Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz by Käthe Kollwitz; Carl Zigrosser Eighty-three moving works from the four great print cycles -- The Weavers, The Peasant War, War, Death -- and more.

Drawings: Toulouse-Lautrec by Jan Polasek Drawings and illustrations by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Lautrec by Lautrec by Philippe Huisman A biography and selection of works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Toulouse-Lautrec by Gotz Adriani An analysis of the life and works of French Impressionist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

The complete paintings of Manet by Edouard Manet An outline of the artist's critical history and a collection of his works.

Manet by John Richardson A small selection of works by Edouard Manet.

Manet, 1832-1883 by Francoise Cachin; Charles S. Moffett; Michel Melot A collection of Manet's paintings and drawings, each with detailed notes; plus several essays.

Claude Monet by N. N. Kalitina Features information on his life, work, exhibitions, and more.

Great Masterpieces by Claude Monet by Diane Kelder; Claude Monet A collection of Monet's famous works.

Monet by Robert Gordon; Andrew Forge Examines the works of Monet from a new perspective, and traces the changes in his style as brought about by the changes and problems in his personal life.

Monet: le déjeuner sur l'herbe by Joel Isaacson A selection of works by Claude Monet with context.

Mother and Child: the art of Henry Moore by Gail E. Gelburd Catalog of an exhibition held at Hofstra Museum (Sept. 10-Nov. 21, 1987); Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University (Dec. 6, 1987-Jan. 23, 1988); Baltimore Art Museum (Feb. 16-Apr. 17, 1988); and the Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania (Dec. 11, 1987-Jan. 17, 1988).

The Life of Henry Moore by Roger Berthoud From a mass of material, including recently discovered early letters, and interviews with Moore's friends, his former assistants and students, dealers, collectors, museum officials and leading architects with whom he worked, Roger Berthoud has built up a lively and engaging though not uncritical picture of Moore's long life and career in this definitive biography. Book jacket.

Henry Moore by Henry Moore; John Hedgecoe (Photographer) Hedgecoe has taken many thousands of photographs of Henry Moore at work and on holiday, relating the man to the sources of his inspiration--the land, the sea, the sky, natural objects, flintstones, trees, landscapes, and above all to the human form. The words are by Henry Moore himself. Altogether, the result is an extraordinarily vivid and personal record of the world's greatest living sculptor in his environment.

Henry Moore Sculpture by Henry Moore & David Mitchinson American book version of the Madrid catalogue.

Giorgio Morandi: a Retrospective by Giorgio Morandi; Maria Cristina Bandera This handsome overview beautifully elucidates the artist's humble repertoire of themes, showing (when possible) where they originated, and how they were reprised across the course of his career.

Giorgio Morandi by Janet Abramowicz; Giorgio Morandi An important new addition to scholarship on twentieth-century Italian art history, this book features many rare and previously unpublished images and will fascinate admirers of Morandi and his transcendent work.

Kay Nielsen. East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Noel Daniel This finely crafted reprint restores the stunning detail and artistry of Nielsen's images to their original splendor. Featuring 46 illustrations, including many enlarged details from Nielsen's rare original watercolors, the book is printed in five colors. Three accompanying essays, illustrated with dozens of rare and previously unseen artworks by Nielsen, explore the history of Norwegian folktales, Nielsen's life and work, and how this masterpiece came to be.

Nielsen's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color by Kay Nielsen Certain to delight fans of fairy tales, this dazzling collection will also thrill lovers of fine art, as well as Nielsen admirers.

Full Bloom: the art and life of Georgia O'Keeffe by Hunter Drohojowska-Philip This large, finely balanced biography offers an astonishingly honest portrayal of a life shrouded in myth.

Georgia O'Keeffe by Jonathan Stuhlman; Barbara Buhler Lynes; Georgia O'Keeffe This book examines for the first time an overlooked aspect of O'Keefe's work, focusing specifically on her distinctive use of circular forms as an abstract motif. The publication traces O'Keefe's experimentation with circular forms across her entire career and concludes with a selection of rarely seen late paintings in which she literally "circled back" to forms found in her early work.

Georgia O'Keeffe: the poetry of things by Elizabeth Hutton Turner A celebration of Georgia O'Keeffe's contribution to still-life painting. It discusses the formative influence of Arthur Wesley Dow and compares her invention in still life to academic practices and traditional models in Western art. There are full-page reproductions of her paintings.

Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940 by Barbara Buhler Lynes; Georgia O'Keeffe "This book features fifty-four paintings, photographs, and drawings of the calla lily dating from the 1860s to 1940. It includes nine of O'Keeffe's most renowned paintings of the flower as well as works by Imogen Cunningham, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, John La Farge, Man Ray, Joseph Stella, and Edward Weston."

Ed Paschke by Neal Benezra; John Yau; Dennis Adrian; Carol Schreiber Pulsing with electric colors, Pop Art works featuring Marilyn, Elvis and social outcasts.

Philip Pearlstein: drawings and watercolors by John Perreault; Philip Pearlstein 160 illustrations including 60 plates in color, 47 in sepia duotone and one gatefold.

Wondrous Strange by Andrew Wyeth; Jamie Wyeth; Howard Pyle; N. C. Wyeth The art presented in this volume is from three generations of the Wyeth family, as well as turn-of-the-century illustrator, Howard Pyle. The paintings have elements of the Gothic and touch upon the fantastic and the macabre, and each of the 120 selected is an illustration of a classic tale.

Frederic Remington's own West by Frederic Remington; Harold McCracken Great western artist's eyewitness accounts of his adventures on the frontier.

Frederic Remington, the American West : an official publication of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History; Frederic Remington Gathers Remington's Western illustrations of Indians, trappers, cowboys, soldiers, and outlaws, and includes the artist's anecdotes about Western life.

Frederic Remington by Michael Edward Shapiro; Peter H. Hassrick The volume also includes comparative illustrations of works by his contemporaries, and views of the artist painting or adventuring in the west, and shows how Remington was much more than an artist of the American West.

Frederic Remington Book: a Pictorial History of the West by Harold McCracken Presents a documentary history of the Old West and nearly 400 of Remington's finest paintings, drawings, and works of sculpture.

Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama Rembrandt's Eyes, about which Simon Schama has been thinking for more than twenty years, shows that the true biography of Rembrandt is to be discovered in his pictures. Though a succession of superbly incisive descriptions and interpretations of Rembrandt's paintings threaded into his narrative, he allows us to see Rembrandt's life clearly and to think about it afresh.

Rembrandt; his life, his work, his time by Bob Haak An art book featuring the work of Rembrandt, along with biographical information.

Rembrandt Self-Portraits by Christopher Wright A collection of Rembrandt's self-portraits throughout his life.

The world of Rembrandt, 1606-1669 by Robert Wallace Lavishly illustrated account of the life, career, works and times of the 17th century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, with background information on other artists of that period.

Diego Rivera, 1886-1957 : a revolutionary spirit in modern art by Andrea Kettenmann This is the first study which, independently of the exhibition circuit, coherently presents the work of this extraordinary artist.

Diego Rivera by Linda Downs; Cynthia Newman Helms Celebrates the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth. Its 200 color plates and 325 black-and-white photographs illustrate Rivera's life and work from his early years at the Mexican Academy of San Carlos and studies in Spain, his subsequent eleven-year sojourn in Paris and brief involvement with Cubism in the first part of this century, to his efforts to establish a truly Mexican style in the murals for which he is most famous.

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera by H. Prignitz-Poda A new survey of the masterworks of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, set against the backdrop of Mexican Modernism.

Rossetti and His Circle by Max Beerbohm Facsimile of author's illustrated copy of the first edition. Contains 23 watercolor caricatures of Pre-Raphaelites and other artists, writers, models, and mistresses surrounding the caricaturist.

Peter Paul Rubens : man & artist by Christopher White Traces the life of the seventeenth century Dutch painter and discusses the background of each of his major works.

Peter Paul Rubens by Anne-Marie Logan; Michiel Plomp The authors discuss the various functions of Rubens's drawings as preparatory studies for paintings, sculpture, architecture, prints, and book illustrations. The volume also includes a sampling of the artist's early anatomical studies and copies after antique sculpture as well as several sheets by other artists that Rubens retouched, restored, or reworked.

Rubens and his world by Christopher White Paintings and biography of Peter Paul Rubens.

The world of Rubens, 1577-1640 by C. V. Wedgwood and the editors of Time-Life Books Stresses the career and artistic style of the Dutch painter of the Counter Reformation and includes numerous color reproductions.

Egon Schiele, 1890-1918 : the midnight soul of the artist by Reinhard Steiner Egon Schiele (1890-1918) - along with Oskar Kokoschka - is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with Klimt's style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough and not easily accessible paintings.

Egon Schiele: drawings and watercolors by Jane Kallir Assembles drawings and watercolors from public and private collections and reproduces work from every year of the artist's career, beginning with the juvenilia and early academic studies. The focus means that work that is rarely reproduced is represented extensively, providing a unique opportunity to study the rapid artistic development of Schiele over the course of his brief twelve-year career.

The Genesis of Modernism: Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, & French symbolism in the 1880's by Sven Loevgren Discusses symbolism in the early modern art movement.

Seurat, 1859-1891 by Robert Herbert Seurat's brief but brilliant career is traced from his early academic drawings of the 1870s to the paintings of popular entertainments and the serene landscapes of his final years.

Seurat by John Russell 'A lively and most readable account of Seurat's life and artistic development... Mr. Russell contributes some important original insights.'

Seurat and the Science of Painting by William I. Homer Demonstrates the close connection that existed between science and the visual arts during the late nineteenth century and deals with some of the developments that led to that union.

Henry Ossawa Tanner: modern spirit by Anna O. Marley This volume expands our understanding of Tanner's place in art history, showing that his status as a painter was deeply influenced by his race but not decided by it.

Ascending Chaos: the art of Masami Teraoka by Masami Teraoka; Kathryn A. Hoffman; Alison Bing; Eleanor Heartney; In Teraoka's paintings, the political and the personal collide in a riot of sexually frank tableaux. Populated by geishas and goddesses, priests, and politicians, and prominent contemporary figures, these paintings are the spectacular next phase of a wildly inventive career. With essays by renowned art critics who discuss how Teraoka's work inventively marries east and west, sex and religion, Ascending Chaos is a critical overview of this cultural trickster.

Wayne Thiebaud by Karen Tsujimoto This major monograph traces the development of several themes and styles that characterize Thiebaud's complex oeuvre.

Wayne Thiebaud: a paintings retrospective by Steven A. Nash; Adam Gopnik Best-known for his deadpan still-life paintings of cakes, pies, delicatessen counters, and other consumer goods, Thiebaud has also explored such themes as figure studies, the topography of Northern California, and cityscapes exaggerating the vertiginous roadways and geometric high-rises of San Francisco.

Van Gogh by Josephine Cutts; James Smith Van Gogh looks at all aspects of his painting, along with detailed commentary on 120 of his works and additional imagery to highlight comparisons and contrasts in his style. Some of these are considered his most important pieces while others are less well known, but all were central to Van Gogh's philosophical and artistic development.

Van Gogh's Van Goghs: masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam by Richard Kendall This work is published to coincide with an exhibition in the USA of a group of Van Gogh's paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The collection is based on works acquired directly from the artist by his brother.

Vincent van Gogh : the complete paintings by Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger Features a golden hardbound cover and high quality photos of Van Gogh's work through each stage of his creative life, within six chronological sections; The making of an artist, 1853-1883, The years in Nuenen, 1883-1885, City Life, 1885-1888, Painting & Utopia, Arles Feb 1888-May 1889, Almost a cry of fear, Saint-Remy, May 1889-May 1890, and Auvers-sur-Oise, May-July 1890.

Vincent Van Gogh by Susan Alyson Stein; Colta Ives; Sjraar Van Heugten; Marije Vellekoop; Sjraar Van Heugten Presents approximately 120 works in charcoal, ink, graphite, watercolor, and diluted oils. The authors explore enduring questions that surround Van Gogh's drawings, including their manufacture, artistic precedents, and contribution to Modernism.

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Pater A small selection of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo Da Vinci by Patrice Boussel Discusses Leonardo the man and painter, provides an analysis of his thinking as revealed in his notebooks, and includes reproductions of many of his works.

Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci; Irma A. Richter; Thereza Wells; Martin Kemp Through his notebooks we can get an insight into Leonardo's thoughts, and his approach to work and life. This selection offers a cross-section of his writings, organized around coherent themes. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Martin Kemp, one of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo.

The world of Leonardo, 1452-1519 by Robert Wallace and the editors of Time-Life Books A selection of the works of Leonardo the artist, the scientist and anticipator of the modern age of technology and invention is accompanied by a text which presents and analyzes the stages of Leonardo's life and growth, including numerous quotations from his own notes and writings.

An American Vision by James H. Duff (Commentaries by); Andrew Wyeth; Thomas Hoving; Lincoln Kirstein Published in association with the Brandywine River Museum to accompany an international exhibition organized by it.

Wondrous Strange by Andrew Wyeth; Jamie Wyeth; Howard Pyle; N. C. Wyeth The art presented in this volume is from three generations of the Wyeth family, as well as turn-of-the-century illustrator, Howard Pyle. The paintings have elements of the Gothic and touch upon the fantastic and the macabre, and each of the 120 selected is an illustration of a classic tale.