Modernism on Stage:
The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde
by Juliet Bellow

"Modernism on Stage restores Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes to its central role in the Parisian art world of the 1910s and 1920s. During those years, the Ballets Russes’ stage served as a dynamic forum for the interaction of artistic genres — dance, music, and painting — in a mixed-media form inspired by Richard Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art). This interdisciplinary study combines a broad history of Diaghilev’s troupe with close readings of four ballets designed by canonical modernist artists: Picasso, Delaunay, Matisse, and Chirico. — from the publisher" (see more about Modernism on Stage)

Radical Art by Helen Langa

"Radical Art is a landmark study, both in the history of printmaking and in the history of American art of the thirties. There is no better explicator of the graphic arts of this era and their cultural context than Helen Langa. Her thoroughly researched and compellingly written volume is a major scholarly contribution." — Betsy Fahlman, author of John Ferguson Weir: The Labor of Art (see more about Radical Art)

The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact
by Norma Broude, Mary D. Garrard,
and Judith K. Brodksy

"The Power of Feminist Art is not a book: it's a milestone… Until Power, feminist art has been conspicuously absent from standard academic narratives; it's as if the 70s never happened. Now, no critic or historian, conservative or not, can argue that feminist art is insignificant." — Elizabeth Hess, Village Voice

Artemisia Gentileschi Around 1622:
The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity
by Mary D. Garrard

"In this admirable work, at once passionately argued and lucidly written, Professor Garrard effectively considers the social, psychological, and formal complexity of the shaping and reshaping not only of the artist's feminine and feminist identity in the misogynist society of the seventeenth century but also of that identity in the disciple of art history today." — Steven Z. Levine, author of Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self

Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris edited by Norma Broude