Research and Innovation

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, July 26-Nov. 17, 1996 and at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, Dec. 13, 1996-Apr. 6, 1997.

An essay that explores the relationship of word and image in American comic book publishing.

The Folger Shakespeare Library contains the finest collection of Shakespearean art ever assembled. Its two hundred paintings include scenes from Shakespeare's plays, portraits of the actors, and portraits of the playwright and his contemporaries, works that have been painted by artists such as Benjamin West, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Sully, George Romney, and Thomas Nast. This book is the first analysis, history, and catalogue of this important collection. This catalogue forms an essential chapter in the history of the development of literary painting and of Shakespearean criticism, in changes in approach to stagecraft, and in the evolution of Shakespeare portraiture. It is a valuable reference source not only for art historians but for literary and theatrical historians as well.

A beautifully photographed monolith of the statues of Paris from the Bourbon monarchy, the revolution, the Napoleonic era, the restoration of the monarchy, the second Republic, the second empire, the third republic and the Vichy government to the present.

This comprehensive and fully illustrated book about the Statue of Liberty traces its history, its art, its technology and construction, its symbolism, its importance in American imagery, and its role as a monument to French-American friendship. The Statue represents a cooperative effort by French and American art historians, social historians, and architects to understand how the Statue came to be, how it fits into the Western tradition of art and ideas, what it has meant to Americans, and what issues were involved in its renovation and rededication. The book contains over 500 visual images, many in color, from French and American collections.

Catalogue of an exhibition from February 9 to March 20, 1983.

This book is the first modern study of James Barry, the finest of all painters working in Britain in the "grand manner." Born in Cork, Ireland, Barry settles in London in 1771 after five years of study in France and Italy financed by Edmund Burke. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1773 and appointed professor of painting nine years later. In 1799, however, after fiercely denouncing its policies, he became the first and only artist to be expelled from the Academy. His paintings include several that rank with the nest contemporary work, and his murals at the Royal Society of Arts form perhaps the most important cycle of history paintings in Great Britain.

Anthony Colantuono's essay "High Quality Copies and the Art of Diplomacy During the Thirty Years War" examines several cases in which copies after works of art conceived as instruments of diplomatic discourse were deliberately distributed to foreign heads of state and diplomatic envoys as a means of conveying moral or political concepts that might be difficult to raise in ordinary verbal oratory.