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Clinical psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison's Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire intimately details the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's mental illness and how it shaped his poetic output.
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A new book celebrates the artist’s unique vision, featuring more than 200 projects he has conceived since the 1980s.
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The image of Egypt as conceived by innovative Japanese publisher Takejirō Hasegawa was well outside the dominant paradigm and thus startling to Western eyes.
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In Josef Albers: Midnight and Noon, Nicholas Fox Weber, Elaine de Kooning, Colm Tóibín, and more discuss the artist’s seminal Homage to the Square series.
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The 1660 Klencke Atlas is taller than most people, and now its rare maps are easily accessible online.
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Using a homemade camera, Karl Blossfeldt captured the sculptural details of plants, from the geometry of a seed pod to the alien curl of a fern.
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For her new book, Jeanine Michna-Bales photographed 100 sites along the Underground Railroad under cover of darkness.
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In a new book, Phaidon considers the unexpected and deliberate connections between 500 of our most recognizable images.
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Researchers at University College London studied the scents of old books to better understand how to identify and protect "heritage smells."
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A new edition of George Nelson's How to See shows that his guide to the human-made landscape is as relevant as ever.
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When René Magritte wrote “This is not a pipe,” he wasn’t negating the pipe so much as he was negating the language with which we attempt to grasp it.
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Besides examining in-depth both the early and late Maine periods, Marsden Hartley’s Maine includes a fine essay on materials and techniques, based on careful examination of a dozen works, which shows a surprising continuity in composition and methods across Hartley’s career.