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Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Princeton University Press

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London’s History, Washed Up on the Shores of the Thames

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford August 28, 2022August 26, 2022

Author Malcolm Russell’s novel approach to history — finding it as it washes up on the riverbanks — makes the past seem very much alive.

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How Painter-Architects Brought Built Spaces to Life

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford February 14, 2022February 14, 2022

Architectural drawings were limited to mostly monochrome in Europe until color appeared in the 17th century.

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How Venetian Glass Seduced American Artists a Century Ago

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford January 6, 2022January 5, 2022

A lavishly illustrated, fascinating book explores the resurgence of Venetian glass and the ways it influenced American ideas about taste and beauty.

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A Food-Obsessed Frolic Through Western Art History

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford December 5, 2021December 3, 2021

An art historian and food and wine writer, Leonard Barkan roves from Pompeiian mosaics to Bible passages to Shakespearean plays in search of food and drink.

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Carrie Mae Weems’s Visual Response to Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come”

Avatar photo by Carrie Mae Weems September 27, 2021September 28, 2021

Weems’s essay is excerpted from Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces.

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Why Early Modern European Artists Were Obsessed With Shells

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford August 24, 2021August 24, 2021

From Leonardo to Rembrandt, artists were drawn to these soft and glowing forms.

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A Beautiful Guide to Colors in the Natural World, Revisited 200 Years Later

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford May 18, 2021May 18, 2021

“Nature’s Palette” reproduces the groundbreaking color systems and illustrates them with lush engravings.

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Michelangelo’s Last Two Decades Were His Busiest and Loneliest

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford April 5, 2021April 5, 2021

William E. Wallace excavates a lesser-known but crucial final chapter of the artist’s approximately 75-year career.

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Analyzing the Biases of Western Art History With Hard Data

by Lydia Pyne March 29, 2021March 30, 2021

Careful and yet compellingly fresh in its approach, Painting by Numbers offers a new kind of methods book.

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Roni Horn’s Memories and Meditations About Weather

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn December 28, 2020January 5, 2021

Prosaic and profound, Horn’s book “Island Zombie” feels like standing before art again.

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John Chamberlain’s Previously Unknown Poems From Black Mountain College

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino April 16, 2020April 16, 2020

Here’s a sneak peek of the artist’s previously unknown writings from 1955, to be published by Princeton University Press this month.

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The Complex History of Yellow, a “Mediocre” Color

Avatar photo by Aida Amoako December 26, 2019January 11, 2021

Considering the evidence of yellow’s constant fluctuation in and out of favor, it is curious to see author Michel Pastoureau wonder if it could be “the color of the future.”

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