Overview :Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child wo... Read More
Overview :Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Startin... Read More
Overview :A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States "One of the richest books ever to come my way."--Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Priz... Read More
Overview :This beautifully written study looks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be pow... Read More
Overview :A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in post... Read More
Overview :Silent Dialogues, by art historian Alexander Nemerov, is a probing, intimate reflection about photographer Diane Arbus, the author's aunt, a... Read More
Overview :Turner's daringly loose brushwork and dazzling colors shine in his watercolorsJ.M.W. Turner, one of Britain's greatest painters, is perhaps ... Read More
Overview :An American painter usually associated with the Precisionist movement, George Copeland Ault (1891-1948) created works that provide a unique ... Read More
Overview :What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov t... Read More