Scale is being taken to new extremes in art: big and bold on the one hand, intricate and intimate on the other. This book is divided into two sections big art and small art and includes profiles of forty-five contemporary artists who are revolutionizing our approach to scale with works that provoke [...]

Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendanc[...]

At the moment when Mabel wins Waddles the pig at the Mystery Fair, Dipper ruins his chance to impress Wendy. But when Dipper finds a way to travel back in time and changes his fate with Wendy, Mabel's fate also changes-for the worse. Will Dipper and Mabel tweak time so they both leave the fair a win[...]

In the three works in this volume, On the Structure of the Art of Medicine, The Art of Medicine, and On the Practice of Medicine to Glaucon, the physician, philosopher, scientist, and medical historian Galen of Pergamum covers fundamental aspects of his practice in a lucid and engaging style.[...]

How creative freedom, race, class, and gender shaped the rebellion of two visionary artistsPostwar America experienced an unprecedented flourishing of avant-garde and independent art. Across the arts, artists rebelled against traditional conventions, embracing a commitment to creative autonomy and p[...]

Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent.
Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic father did not stop four-year-old Akiane Kramarik from finding God. This girl's dreams began a conversa[...]

Choose one of the three complementary design notebooks from a package of Van Gogh Floral Writer's Notebooks from Galison Green. A detail of Almond Blossom (detail of an 1890 painting in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) has lined pages and on the inside front cover, the quotation "I have nature and ar[...]

We like to imagine that money and art are old enemies, but beneath the veneer of creative utopianism is a dark capitalist underbelly. To expose the fraught intersection of art and money, Max Haiven proposes we examine how money is mobilized in art.
Even as he shows how imaginary money and the so[...]

"Get Into Art Telling Stories" explores a fascinating array of pictures that tell stories. Works featured in this book range from battle scenes to fairy tales, and are depicted by artists as diverse as Edward Hopper, Matisse, and the creators of the Bayeux Tapestry.
A gorgeous, award-winning ar[...]