Historian and architectural critic William H. Jordy (1917-1997) significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture. This collection of his thought-provoking essays encompasses Jordy's entire career and includes his signature essay, -- The Symbolic Essence of Modern Architecture of the Twenties and Its Continuing Influence.

With radical formal innovations that scandalized the European art world, cubism revolutionized modern art and opened the path toward pure abstraction. Documenting the first heady years of this profoundly influential movement, A Cubism Reader presents the most comprehensive collection of cubist primary sources ever compiled for English-language publication.This definitive anthology covers the historical genesis of cubism from 1906 to 1914, with documents that range from manifestos and poetry to exhibition prefaces and reviews to articles that address the cultural, political, and philosophical issues related to the movement. Most of the texts Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten have selected are from French sources, but their inclusion of carefully culled German, English, Czech, Italian, and Spanish documents speaks to the international reach of cubist art and ideas.

Matthew Rohrer's simple, hilarious, generous and strangely disquieting poems conjure versions of the most familiar aspects of our lives-friendship, marriage, childhood, work-into which intrude incongruous, peculiar, fantastical, yet somehow totally recognizable elements. Over and over these poems leave us convinced that we've learned something very important and mysterious, yet we can't say exactly what.

n this exhilarating book, Anne Middleton Wagner challenges readers to rethink the work of a range of post-World War II artists--Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Maya Lin, Bruce Nauman, and Agnes Martin among them--and thus to re-assess the relationship of art to politics and social life.