Art & Architecture
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Annie Miller
Editor, Art & Architecture
Our list in art and architectural history is comprehensive in its approach to subject matter, period, and geography, with titles ranging from authoritative, award-winning scholarly studies and primary materials to volumes of work by living artists and exhibition catalogues.
Designed to educate, inspire, and engage a wide readership, our titles seek to establish connections with a broad range of neighboring disciplines in the humanities, and enable readers to understand the place of visual cultures and the built environment within the wider world.
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Africa鈥檚 Buildings
Africa鈥檚 Buildings uncovers the vast scale of cultural displacement perpetrated by the West and proposes a new role for museums in this history, one in which they champion the repatriation of Africa鈥檚 architectural heritage and restitution for African communities.
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Roland Betancourt on Disneyland and the Rise of Automation
Roland Betancourt traces how Disneyland became a proving ground for automation at the very moment the American public was most anxious about its consequences.
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Leslie Umberger on Grandma Moses
Leslie Umberger is coauthor (along with Randall R. Griffey) of Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work, a major reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American master.
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Clash of Titians
Titian and Michelangelo were already famous by the time they first met in 1529, and they were extravagantly famous by the time they met again in Rome in 1546. They did not need to compete, but they did鈥攕ometimes admiring and emulating, sometimes criticizing and correcting.
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Architecture鈥檚 forgotten figures
Like any other subject, the history of modernist architecture has its favored heroes and plotlines, but also important figures who drop out of sight despite their contemporary successes. Ella Briggs is one of them.
