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Bowling's transition to abstraction, seen against the backdrop of 1960s-'70s debates on abstract art and the Black Arts movement"Modernism belonged to me also." So resolved the British Guiana-born artist Frank Bowling in 1966, when he moved from his temporary home base of London to New York City, keen to make his mark on modern painting. This volume surveys for the first time the transformative years that Bowling spent in the US from 1966 thro...

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 17-July 25, 2022.

Lady Murasaki's 'Tale of Genji' has delighted readers for more than 1, 000 years and inspired writers to create numerous parodies. Artists have responded with a rich parallel tradition illustrating the courtly intrigues, love affairs and shifting alliances of the epic novel, as well as its retellings. This lavishly illustrated volume explores interpretations by master printmakers such as Kunisada, as well as Hiroshige, Suzuki Harunobu and Chob...

Presents the best of the collection of early European painting and sculpture held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is home to an important collection of artworks from South Asia that spans a large geographical area - comprising India and the countries that surround it - and more than four millennia. Among these objects are expressive figures in bronze and stone, dazzlingly intricate miniature paintings, luxury textiles and exquisite metalwork. Arranged thematically around dualities of art and craft, sacred and secular, Hind...

Drawing on the unparalleled Howard Greenberg Collection, Viewpoints presents some seventy-five iconic images that have come to define their times Over the course of the twentieth century, photography evolved as an art form while serving as an eyewitness to social, cultural and political change. This book presents some seventy-five iconic images that came to define their times, and explores the stories behind the moments they recorded and the p...

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A re-creation of the glorious and seductive visual world of 18th century Europe through the life of one of its most notorious figures.

Published to accompany the exhibition showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 16 July to 28 December 2014, and touring the USA thereafter this is the first major retrospective of Jamie Wyeth's work in over thirty years, Wyeth (b. 1946) is the third generation of the family of prominent American artists.

Presents a wide range of Hokusai's artistic production. This book attempts to answer the question of how the artist depicted human bodies in motion, combined figures and represented three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface. It also features paintings, prints, and drawings from the peerless Japanese art collection.

From the 1890s through the turn of the century, there was a flourishing of imaginative art and craft throughout Europe that we now know as Art Nouveau. This book celebrates the Dutch contribution to Art Nouveau through a tour of more than one hundred works on paper posters, decorative calendars, illustrated books, as well as prints and drawings.

From the mid-1930s through the 1940s, the collaboration of the American jewelry firm Trabert & Hoeffer with the Parisian house Mauboussin produced some of the most extraordinary high-style jewels of its time. Hollywood stars such as Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich appeared on-screen and off flashing the firm's historic gems mounted in diamond-studded platinum settings. Even during the Depression and the Second World War, Trabert & Hoeff...

Francisco Goya has been widely celebrated as the most important Spanish artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns, and an astute observer of the human condition in all its complexity. This book presents a comprehensive and integrated view of Goya.

The 1960s saw a revolution in fashion that was born, like most things new and hip in that era, of youth rebellion in the streets. Hippies expressed a personal style with clothing that went against everything about the previous generation's notion of matching suits or ladylike ensembles mandated by social class or profession. For the first time, high-end designers didn't dictate the trends. Instead, the latest looks trickled up into the top fas...

A history of the first global and multicultural era presented through fine and decorative arts.