Texts & Documents Series
Groundbreaking texts. Fresh translations. Critical introductions. Browse our titles on the history and theory of the visual arts.
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Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889–1914
Henry van de Velde
Edited by Katherine M. Kuenzli Translated by Elizabeth Tucker Fall 2022 |
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Los Angeles: The Development, Life, and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California
Anton Wagner
Edited by Edward Dimendberg Translated by Timothy Grundy Spring 2022 |
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The Life of Lambert Lombard (1565); and Effigies of Several Famous Painters from the Low Countries (1572)
Dominicus Lampsonius
Edited and translated by Edward H. Wouk Fall 2021 |
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Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting
Julius von Schlosser
Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Translation by Jonathan Blower Fall 2020 |
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Lectures on Art: Selected Conférences from the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1667–1772
Edited by Christian Michel and Jacqueline Lichtenstein
Translated by Chris Miller Spring 2020 |
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Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters
Giovanni Andrea Gilio
Edited by Michael Bury, Lucinda Byatt, and Carol M. Richardson Translated by Michael Bury and Lucinda Byatt Spring 2018 |
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Practical Discourses on the Most Noble Art of Painting
Jusepe Martínez
Edited by Zahira Véliz Translated by David McGrath and Zahira Véliz Spring 2017 |
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Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism)
Umberto Boccioni
Introduction by Maria Elena Versari Translation by Richard Shane Agin and Maria Elena Versari Spring 2016 |
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Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Early Modern Art
One Hundredth Anniversary Edition
Heinrich Wölfflin A New Translation by Jonathan Blower Essays by Evonne Levy and Tristan Weddigen Spring 2015 |
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The First Treatise on Museums: |
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Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images
Gabriele Paleotti
Introduction by Paolo Prodi Translation by William McCuaig Fall 2012 |
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Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens
Antoine Quatremère de Quincy
Introduction by Dominique Poulot Translation by Chris Miller and David Gilks Spring 2012 |
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The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome
Alois Riegl
Edited and translated by Andrew Hopkins and Arnold Witte Fall 2010 |
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Toward an Architecture
Le Corbusier
Translation by John Goodman Fall 2007 |
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History of the Art of Antiquity
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Translation by Harry Francis Mallgrave Fall 2005 |
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Italian Renaissance Painting according to Genres
Jacob Burckhardt
Translation by David Britt and Caroline Beamish Fall 2004 |
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Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts; or, Practical Aesthetics: A Handbook for Technicians, Artists, and Patrons of Art
Gottfried Semper
Translation by Harry Francis Mallgrave and Michael Robinson Spring 2004 |
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The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece
Julien-David Le Roy
Translation by David Britt Fall 2003 |
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Nine Letters on Landscape Painting Written in the Years 1815–1824; with a Letter from Goethe by Way of Introduction
Carl Gustav Carus
Translation by David Britt Fall 2002 |
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Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette with Opinions on Architecture, and a Preface to a New Treatise on the Introduction and Progress of the Fine Arts in Europe in Ancient Times
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Translation by Caroline Beamish and David Britt Fall 2002 |
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Modern Architecture in |
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Précis of the Lectures on Architecture with Graphic Portion of the Lectures on Architecture
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
Translation by David Britt Fall 2000 |
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The Victory of the New Building Style
Walter Curt Behrendt
Translation by Harry Francis Mallgrave Spring 2000 |
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The Group Portraiture of Holland
Alois Riegl
Translation by Evelyn M. Kain Fall 1999 |
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The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity
Aby Warburg
Translation by David Britt Spring 1999 |
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The Modern Functional Building
Adolf Behne
Translation by Michael Robinson Fall 1996 |
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Thoughts on Style, 1886–1909
Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Translation by Iain Boyd Whyte and Wim de Wit Spring 1996 |
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Building in France; Building in Iron; Building in Ferroconcrete
Sigfried Giedion
Translation by J. Duncan Berry Fall 1995 |
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Essays on Architecture, 1796–1799
Friedrich Gilly
Translation by David Britt Fall 1994 |
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Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth-Century and Its Present Condition
Hermann Muthesius
Fall 1994 |
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Empathy, Form, and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics, 1873–1893
Conrad Fiedler, Adolf Göller, Adolf Hildebrand, August Schmarsow, Robert Vischer,
and Heinrich Wölfflin Translation by Harry Francis Mallgrave and Eleftherios Ikonomou Spring 1994 |
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Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients
Claude Perrault
Translation by Indra Kagis McEwen Spring 1993 |
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The Genius of Architecture; or, The Analogy of That Art with Our Sensations
Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières
Translation by David Britt Spring 1992 |
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In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style
Carl Gottlieb Wilhelm Bötticher, Heinrich Hübsch, Carl Albert Rosenthal, Rudolf Wiegmann,
and Johann Heinrich Wolff Translation by Wolfgang Herrmann Spring 1992 |
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Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art
Otto Wagner
Translation by Harry Francis Mallgrave Fall 1988 |
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