From the acclaimed author of The King’s Painter, a vivid life-and-times biography of two unjustly neglected women artists, Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
An exploration of the volatile years of England’s Tudor dynasty (1485–1603), using the art of the era – both images and objects – to investigate every facet of a period that continues to exert a remarkable allure.
The first book to consider the poet Frank O’Hara’s distinguished curatorial career for the Museum of Modern Art, and his role in shaping the international reception of American modern art during the Cold War period.
A richly illustrated reassessment of one of the most controversial Post-Impressionist artists, Paul Gauguin, exploring his work in the context of the Polynesian islands where much of it was created.