Product Description: More than fifteen years after his death, Salvador Dali continues to be one of the world's most popular artists. To many, his work defines Surrealism, and according to Alan Riding of the New York Times, "among twentieth-century artists, his renown is probably only exceeded by Picasso's...read more

Product Description: The Rookwood Pottery was probably the most famous company making art pottery in the United States in the late nineteenth century into the twentieth century, achieving an international reputation and consistently promoting artistic innovation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The history of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, like most public art museums in the US, is one of civic spirit and private philanthropy. The majority of the works of art in the Museum's collection were gifts from generous and public-minded individuals...read more

Product Description: Jacques Villon, brother of Marcel Duchamp and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, was one of the premier printmakers in Paris during the early part of the 20th century. Originally influenced by the work of Toulouse-Latrec, he later moved toward Cubism in his work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

One of the world's finest private collections of Indian 'miniature' paintings, a promised bequest to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is represented by some 90 works of art created in workshops across India over the course of four centuries. The paintings, all reproduced in full color and accompanied by a detailed scholarly examination, span the period from before the rise of Islamic Mughal rule in northern India during the 1500s to the heyday of the British Raj in the late 19th century. The 'intimate worlds' evoked by these images vividly illustrate Hindu, Muslim, and Jain religious stories; offer visions of life at court; and explore the pleasures and pains of love. Essays include a statement from the collector and an introductory history of courtly painting on the Indian subcontinent, as well as discussions of the history of the collecting of Indian art, hierarchies of taste, and the relationship between artists and patrons.

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Product Description: One of the most inventive American photographers of the postwar era, Ray K. Metzker has startled and delighted viewers with his images for the past forty years. Ray K. Metzker: Landscapes collects the landscape images that Metzker has made throughout his career...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

More than two hundred full-color reproductions complement an authoritative study of the portrait paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, providing a close-up look at works from all stages of his career in essays by six distinguished art historians. 15,000 first printing. BOMC Main.

Product Description: The more than 500 objects featured here bear witness to the styles and aesthetics of early PA and illustrate the rapid advances that took place in the colony during the late 17th and early 18th cent., not only in the arts but also in commerce, technology, scientific inquiry, and philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of the diverse set of Goya works exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Product Description: This complete handbook of the Philadelphia Museum of art's permanent collection of Pennsylvania German objects is the first resource of its kind, revealing the full range, depth and quality of a folk art collection 90 years in the making...read more

Product Description: For the first time since 1931, the modern art collection of Philadelphia artist and collector Earl Horter has been reassembled. This great collection included some of the greatest works by the most renowned and respected figures in Modern Art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Vivid photographs of life in Tibet are accompanied by a discussion of the culture and Buddhist traditions of the region

Product Description: Nearly four hundred textiles from East and West are reproduced in full color in this handbook of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's encyclopedic collections, which cover a broad range of geographic areas, periods, and techniques. Europe and the Americas are represented by woven textiles, printed textiles, embroidery, lace, samplers, and quilts and coverlets, while other sections illustrate the textile arts of the Mediterranean and Middle East as well as India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan...read more

Product Description: Published to accompany an exhibition of sculptures and drawings by two of history's greatest artists, this book examines the pivotal career of Auguste Rodin (1840&endash;1917) and his acknowledged debt to Michelangelo (1475&endash;1564)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Artist and prominent early American Charles Willson Peale (1741&endash;1827) willed his passions to his equally remarkable children, nieces, and nephew. This engaging pictorial study reveals in-depth these two generations of artists, naturalists, and civic leaders...read more

Product Description: The memoirs of Nannette Rothschild are the basis for this unique exhibition catalogue, which chronicles the formation of Herbert and Nannette Rothschild's distinguished collection of early twentieth-century art. Tales of their adventures and evolving friendships with artists, dealers, fellow collectors, conservators, and curators in Europe and America paint their own picture of the challenges facing collectors at the midpoint of this century...read more