On Qualifying Abstraction
August 23, 2022
Megan A. Sullivan— Abstract art has never been one. From its very inception in the early twentieth century, qualifiers have been employed by both artists and scholars so as to… READ MORE
August 23, 2022
Megan A. Sullivan— Abstract art has never been one. From its very inception in the early twentieth century, qualifiers have been employed by both artists and scholars so as to… READ MORE
July 8, 2021
Jonathan Frederick Walz— Perspicacious art historian Melissa Ho—who, in her role as curator of twentieth-century art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, oversees the largest public collection of Alma Thomas… READ MORE
March 31, 2021
Last year Yale University Press was pleased to publish two illuminating studies of 1930s public murals: Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural (selected as Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue of 2020… READ MORE
February 12, 2021
By Sarah Roberts and Katy Siegel Yale University Press and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are very pleased to publish a sweeping and beautifully produced retrospective of the… READ MORE
July 28, 2016
Welcome to our first Yale University Press art+architecture book podcast! We’ve interviewed Joan Marter, Rutgers professor and editor of the widely-acclaimed book Women of Abstract Expressionism. We also have a… READ MORE
June 30, 2016
David Ebony— When first published in an ArtNews article in 1971, the provocative question proposed by critic and art historian Linda Nochlin, “Why have there been no great women artists?”… READ MORE
August 26, 2015
David Ebony— A latecomer to the art scene, Barnett Newman (1905-1970) held his first solo show in 1948, at New York’s Betty Parsons Gallery. He made a formidable impact on… READ MORE
December 16, 2014
Ivy Sanders Schneider – When you encounter some of Wassily Kandinsky’s early works, it can be hard to remember that this artist – who began his career with bright, folk-art… READ MORE