Product Description: Jean Fautrier, one of France's most important interwar and postwar artists, is perhaps best known for the "Otages", his series of abstract paintings featuring partially obliterated or disfigured faces -victims of Nazi atrocities in France during World War II...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In a career that spanned more than sixty years, Percival Goodman achieved renown as one of the most prolific synagogue architects in the United States, and as an instrumental voice in the development of modern religious architecture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Previous research on Joseph Urban (1872-1933) has focused on his architectural career; yet after moving from Vienna to the U.S. in 1912, he devoted much of his energies to the stage, especially productions for the Metropolitan Opera and the Ziegfeld Follies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In pairing Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts, this book offers a critical examination of a key sequence in the development of contemporary art practices. The shift from form to process embraced by these artists made a lasting contribution to advanced art practices in the latter half of the century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Raphael's seven large gouache paintings, called cartoons, that weavers used in creating tapestries for the Sistine Chapel nearly 500 years ago exerted enormous influence on the development of painting in England in the 18th century...read more

Product Description: Building the Collective showcases over 100 poster designs and other graphic works, representing the talents of a wide variety of artists."Building the Collective brings to light exciting and previously unknown work from the most important period in the history of modern graphic design...read more

Product Description: Emerging Japanese Architects of the 1990s introduces a new generation of architects to the west. Six of the most exciting members of the fourth generation of architects to emerge in japan after World War II -Atsushi Kitagawara, Kiyoshi Say Takeyama/AMORPHE, Norihiko Dan, Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, WORKSHOP, and Hisashi Hara- are profiled in this book, amidst stunning photographs of their work...read more