these are the best art books of the moment. Subtitled ‘The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art,’ Michael Petry’s monograph delves into all things shiny in modern creative practice. Originally a ...

and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in twentieth-century art, literature, and culture. The book pursues this interaction of modernity and modernist aesthetics in a two-sided, ...

Modernist Iranian art represents a highly diverse field of cultural production deeply involved in discussing questions of modernity and modernization as practiced in Iran. This book investigates how ...

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In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by revealing how certain Jewish outsiders came to acquire so many old and modern masterpieces in the first place – and what ...