Books from Princeton University Art Museum

  • Pop Art: Contemporary Perspectives : Princeton University Art Museum
    Pop Art: Contemporary Perspectives : Princeton University Art Museum
    By Johanna Burton, Princeton University. Art Museum

    Announcing the new Princeton University Art Museum Monograph Series:Princeton University Art Museum Monographs is a new series of in-depth explorations of the museum's rich collections. Beautifully designed and produced, these...

  • The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C.
    The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C.
    By Princeton University. Art Museum

    The Berlin Painter was the name given by British classicist and art historian Sir John Beazley to an otherwise anonymous Athenian red-figure vase-painter. The artist's long career extended from about...

  • Cezanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings
    Cezanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings
    By John Elderfield

    Catalogue of an exhibition of the same name held at the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey on March 17-June 14, 2020 and at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, England on July 12-October 18, 2020.

  • Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment
    Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment
    By Alan C. Braddock, Karl Kusserow

    This multidisciplinary book offers the first broad ecocritical review of American art and examines the environmental contexts of artistic practice from the colonial period to the present day.

  • Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking
    Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking
    By Calvin Brown, Mitra Abbaspour, Erica Cooke

    Each of these series is named after a literary work--the Had Gadya (a playful song traditionally sung at the end of the Passover Seder), Italian Folktales, compiled by Italo Calvino, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, and The Dictionary of ...

  • Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings: The Peck Shahnama
    Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings: The Peck Shahnama
    By Marianna Shreve Simpson

    This lavishly illustrated volume presents a beautifully decorated, yet relatively unknown, copy of the poet Firdausi's Shahnama (Book of Kings).

  • Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections
    Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections
    By Princeton University. Art Museum

    With a vast collection of works spanning ancient to contemporary art--including Roman ceramics and mosaics, Chinese bronzes and calligraphy, Mayan ceramics, Old Master prints, and early Renaissance through modern and...