World Impressionism: The International Movement, 1860-1920
In a much-needed, revelatory survey, impressionism is seen not as a French school but as a major event in the world's visual culture. The luminous palette and spontaneous brushwork of Renoir, Monet Continue reading »
The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact
An exciting testament to the power and enduring impact of feminist art of the 1970s, this visually overwhelming volume combines 245 illustrations, nearly half in color, with essays and interviews by Continue reading »
The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow
Timothy Mitchell
Political theorist Mitchell (Carbon Democracy) offers a paradigm-shifting critique of the logic that underlies the modern economy. Today is “an age in which extraordinary wealth Continue reading »
The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States
David J Silverman
The “centuries-long White... genocide against Indians” was central to the creation of racial identity in America, according to this trenchant study. Historian Silverman (This Continue reading »
Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood
Joseph Osmundson
Biophysicist Osmundson (Virology) blends memoir and science writing in this moving meditation on queer family, the climate crisis, and 21st-century child-rearing. Balancing the Continue reading »
The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
Gregory E O'Malley
Historian O’Malley (Final Passages) offers a spellbinding saga of one man’s long and wandering search for freedom in Revolutionary-era America. David George left behind one of Continue reading »