Hudson Hills Press

This beautifully illustrated volume introduces a little-known but outstanding collection of Asian textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. Focusing on 95 textiles from the Indian subcontinent, Iran, China, and Japan, the book employs a wide variety of source materials including archaeological reports, 19th century travellers' journals, trade documents, literature and paintings, to place each textile in a resonant context. Written for both the specialist and a general audience. It places fresh research within a comprehensive socio-historic context that includes information about technique, production iconography, function, patronage, and trade. Fully illustrated with maps, this volume also includes a glossary, index, and catalogue of the complete collection.

40 designs representing 19 premieres of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which toured from coast to coast, helping develop an enthusiastic new audience for ballet in America.

Founded in 1826, the National Academy of Design is one of the oldest art organizations in the U.S. This first installment of a fully illustrated and documented two-volume catalogue of the Academy's priceless collection of paintings and sculptures contains information on a total of 1,390 objects and biographies of 581 artists. The collection is especially rich in masterworks of the Hudson River School, with canvases by Frederic Edwin Church, Sanford Robinson Gifford, and John Frederick Kensett; portraits of artists, including Thomas Cole, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Cecilia Beaux, and Thomas Eakins; late nineteenth-century American sculpture, with bronzes by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Paul Manship; and paintings by the American Impressionists and Tonalists such as George Inness, Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, and Frederick Frieseke.