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This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: a portrait of a young gentleman, organized by the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Malik Gaines investigates the artist's post-modern strategy of inserting Black subjects into canonical European settings. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell situates Wiley's work within the traditions and trappings of grand manner eighteenth-century portraiture"--

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Abundant Harvestpresents an overview of this notable collection, highlighting 64 of the most significant objects. These include a brass lantern clock from 1650, two 17th-century needlework designs, a high chest of drawers from 1710, and a 1752 portrait by John Wollaston, an itinerant painter who worked in the North American colonies.

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In LACMA So Far: A Portrait of a Museum in the Making, Suzanne Muchnic draws on decades of experience as a Los Angeles Times arts writer to relate the complicated story of how the Los Angeles County Museum of Art emerged as the largest art museum in the western United States. Her in-depth reporting, fleshed out with private interviews and archival research, offers a lively tale about the convergence of art, money, people, and buildings that ha...

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REVIEWS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION: "The Cattle on a Thousand Hills is without peer as a broad, rich, specific, and authenticated description of southern California in transition....Professor Cleland's book is written with a great deal of charm and is a striking illustration of the wealth of material in the Huntington Library."--"Mississippi Valley Historical Review "A first-rate portrait of the pastoral life of Spanish California undergoing shar...

Twenty years after the rage and flames, a wonderful, always surprising tour of that garden of hope known as South Los Angeles." --Mike Davis, professor of creative writing at University of California, Riverside, author of "City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles" "Refreshingly original and eclectic, this thought-provoking collection of essays sheds needed light on the ongoing promises, problems, and possibilities that characterize...

Through a combination of solid scholarship and widely differing historical perspectives, the contributing authors make convincing and often counter-intuitive arguments to explain the motives behind some of the most fascinating large-scale projects undertaken during the last 100 years. While scholarly in tone, this one goes alongside Uglow's The Lunar Men and Johnson's The Ghost Map for just plain good reading."--Ken Phillips, Curator for Aeros...

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Explores extra-illustration in the long eighteenth century in relation to the popularisation of antiquarianism, the commercialisation of print culture, the reception of engraved portraiture, and the rise of the amateur, the collector, and the connoisseur. -- .

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Frederick - Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens from October 21, 2017-January 22, 2018.

This facimile edition contains Blake's own delicately coloured plates, with the text transcribed in full. There is also a detailed commentary as well as a bibliography of secondary work on the poem.

Investigates the ways in which the past was exploited to meet the concerns of the present in early modern England. This work provide an array of evidence for the way in which the deployment of history for political, religious, moral, aesthetic, or commercial purposes shifted between the mid-sixteenth century and the late eighteenth.