Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator, and print designer throughout his ninety-year life. Yet his most famous works of all--color woodblock landscape prints issued in series--were produced within a relatively short time, in an amazing burst of creative energy from about 1830 to 1836. These ingenious designs, combining influences from schools of Japanese and Chinese art as well as European...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Danish artist Kay Nielsen's luminous interpretations of fairytales and legends from around the world are among the most celebrated book illustrations of the twentieth century, unsurpassed in their dramatic intensity and intricate detail. This book is the first to put his achievements in the context of a career that took him from study in Paris, to the Copenhagen theater, to galleries in London and New York, to the Walt Disney Studios--presenting...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside celestial events. A quilted Lady Liberty, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln mark the resignation of Richard Nixon. These are just a few of the diverse and sometimes hidden stories of the American experience told by quilts and bedcovers...
Author
Publisher
MFA publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"She Who Tells a Story introduces the pioneering work of twelve leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world: Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra Almutawakel, Gohar Dashti, Rana El Nemr, Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian, Tanya Habjouqa, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam, Rania Matar, Shirin Neshat, and Newsha Tavakolian. As the Middle East has undergone unparalleled change over the past twenty years, and national and personal identities have been dismantled...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Takashi Murakami's irreverent, pop culture-infused art has made him one of the most recognized Japanese artists today. His bright, contemporary boisterousness, however, belies his deep scholarship and engagement with traditional Japanese art. 'Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics' presents key examples of Murakami's work alongside a rich selection of Japanese masterpieces spanning several centuries and arranged here according to concepts laid out...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications/Museum of Fine Arts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explores the artist's engagement with antiquity, showing objects from his own collection of Greek and Roman art, joined by other antiquities and interwoven with paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, and photographs made by the artist after he settled permanently in Italy in 1959.