Native American Art
The collection of Native American artworks is one of the hidden treasures of the MFA, with many of its finest objects seldom displayed to ensure their...
My Galleries and Painters
Dealer and friend to Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger, Derain, and Vlaminck, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler is a key figure in the development of modern art—both...
Letters to His Wife and Friends
“May the day come—and perhaps soon—when I can flee to the woods on a South Sea island, and live there in ecstasy, in peace and for art,” Gauguin wrote...
Art in Its Own Terms
Selected Criticism 1935-1975
Editorial Reviews “The year’s outstanding book of art criticism, a rich read, a goal for some of us to shoot for” (Holland Cotter, New York Times)....
Surrealism and Painting
The single most important statement every written on Surrealist art, by the movement’s founder and prime theorist, Surrealism and Painting contains...
Futurist Manifestos
On February 20, 1909, a belligerent manifesto appeared on the front page of the staid Paris newspaper Le Figaro and had immediate repercussions...
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Annotated Edition
This uniquely comprehensive edition includes the revealing and fascinating correspondence between Kandinsky and the book’s first translator and two...
Utopia Parkway
The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
No artist ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell (1903‒1972), the autodidact American genius prized for his disquieting shadow boxes, who stands...
The Innocent Eye
On Modern Literature and the Arts
These “shrewd, beautifully written, ‘tough-minded’ essays” (William Arrowsmith) by the author of The Banquet Years and Forbidden Knowledge focus on...
The Blaue Reiter Almanac
The Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) art movement was founded in 1911 by the young painters Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, and remained active in Europe...