Lauren Halsey's diverse artistic influences, including Afrofuturism, ancient Egyptian iconography, and the architecture and community in her native Los Angeles, feature prominently in her latest site-specific installation. In her 2023 site-specific...

With new photography of extraordinarily rare works of art, this pioneering study features discoveries and research essential to understanding the origins and meaning of Buddhist artistic traditions. Buddhist art originated more than 2,000 years ago,...

A compelling look at the aesthetic and historical significance of Lagerfeld's work – from his elegantly tailored pieces for Chanel to the witty, playful ensembles that came to define the Lagerfeld brand. This publication is the first to present an i...

Offering a fresh look at Oceanic art that incorporates new scholarship and perspectives from Indigenous voices, this book is an essential resource on the diverse nations and communities of the Pacific Islands. Made up of the multiple island communit...

The first book to study Vincent van Gogh's fascination with cypresses, the "tall and dark trees" that feature in some of his most iconic pictures. This groundbreaking study of paintings and drawings of cypress trees by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) i...

An intimate survey of Cecily Brown's paintings, drawings, and prints, providing a meditation on the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, and vanitas in her work. Cecily Brown (b. 1969) transfixes viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brus...

Illuminating three centuries of European artistry and ingenuity, this volume in The Met's acclaimed How to Read series provides a wide-ranging exploration of decorative arts from British writing tables to Russian snuffboxes. Spanning three decades o...

Placing artists at the center of nineteenth-century Demark's dramatic cultural, political, and philosophical transformation, this publication explores their persistent national pride in a time of turmoil. Though known as the Danish Golden Age, ninet...

A provocative study of a freedman painter that recognizes the labor of enslaved artists and artisans in seventeenth-century Spain. Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608-1670) has long been a landmark of European art, but this provoc...

A critical reexamination of Carpeaux's bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images – this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty. This critical r...