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“Vaudeville Indians” on Global Circuits, 1880s-1930s
Drawing from little-known archives, Christine Bold brings to light forgotten histories of Indigenous performers in vaudeville and, by extension, popular culture and modernity. Vaudeville was both a forerunner of modern mass...
Portraits of Resistance
Activating Art During Slavery
This timely and eloquent book tells a new history of American art: how enslaved people mobilized portraiture for acts of defiance. Revisiting the origins of portrait painting in the United States, Jennifer Van Horn reveals how...
Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision
As one of the founders of the post-Impressionist group the Nabis, French artist Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) is frequently seen as a transitional figure between the Impressionists and modernists. This beautifully illustrated book...
A Good and Dignified Life
The Political Advice of Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg
January 2019 marked the centenary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg, a Polish‑German revolutionary whose actions provided long-lasting contributions to political philosophy and whose ideas on citizen councils, participative democracy,...
Signs
Photographs by Jim Dow
The American photographer Jim Dow (b. 1942) is renowned for photographs that depict the built environment—he first gained attention for his panoramic triptychs of baseball stadiums—and for his skill at conveying the “human ingenuity...
Henry Scott Tuke
Famed for his depictions of sun, sea, and sailing during a late Victorian and Edwardian golden age, the British painter Henry Scott Tuke RA (1858–1929) is an intriguing artistic anomaly. Moving between Cornish-based artist colonies...
The New Goliaths
How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation
Historically, competition has powered progress under capitalism. Companies with productive new products rise to the top, but sooner or later, competitors come along with better innovations and disrupt the threat of monopoly. Dominant...
Back to the Drawing Board
Ed Ruscha, Art, and Design in the 1960s
Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) emerged onto the Los Angeles art scene with paintings that incorporated consumer products, such as Spam and SunMaid raisins. In this revelatory book, Jennifer Quick looks at Ruscha’s work through the tools,...
The Anatomy of Grief
How the Brain, Heart, and Body Can Heal after Loss
An original, authoritative guide to the impact of grief on the brain, the heart, and the body of the bereaved"Dorothy Holinger's exploration of the contours of grief is wise, moving, thought-provoking,...
The Women Who Saved the English Countryside
In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But this was not always so. Over the last 150 years, activists have campaigned tirelessly for the right to roam...