Product Description: Recognized in Japan as a connoisseur, collector, and proprietor of a famous folk art shop in Tokyo, Tawara Yusaku returned to painting late in life and had a single show in London before his death in 2004. Universe Is Flux is the first examination of his accomplishments within the context of Asian and contemporary painting...read more

Product Description: Struggling to create an identity distinct from the European tradition but lacking an established system of support, early painting in America received little cultural acceptance in its own country or abroad. Yet despite the initial indifference with which it was first met, American art flourished against the odds and founded the aesthetic consciousness that we equate with American art today...read more

Product Description: Rosand explores the imagery that the Republic of Venice developed to represent itself as the ideal, serene state, founded with holy purpose and protected by divine favor. He argues that, Venice--more than any other political entity of the early modern period--shaped the visual imagination of political thought...read more

Product Description: Drawing Acts is about drawing, both as art and act. Taking the study of drawings beyond the traditional agenda of connoisseurship, David Rosand explores the significance of their making, the meaning in the line of the draftsman, and the recreative dimension of critical response...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice, here published in a revised and updated edition, explores the visual tradition of one of the most important centres of the Italian Renaissance through a study of three masters - Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Examines the history of pastoral landscape painting from the High Renaissance through the late nineteenth century

Recreates the life and artistic development of the Renaissance painter, supplementing color reproductions of his masterworks with commentaries illuminating his impact on the vision of his contemporaries and the methods of his successors