Library Wish List
To donate a book to the Library in your name or in honor of a loved one, please send us an e-mail at library@worcesterart.org noting which book from the Wish List you've selected. Your generous donation will be credited with an inscribed gift plate affixed to the inside cover of the book. Questions, please call 508.799.4406, x3106.
Prices noted below are approximate.
Handbook of Chinese Mythology
Lihui Yang, Deming An, Jessica Anderson Turner
An informative work of historical and contemporary Chinese myths, including a useful collection of historical documents, detailing myths as they live and change in China today.
$25
Handbook of Hindu Mythology
George M. Williams
An informative introduction to this dauntingly complex mythology of multifaceted deities, lengthy heroic tales, and arcane philosophies-all with a 3,000-year history of reinterpretations and adaptations.
$25
Handbook of Japanese Mythology
Michael Ashkenazi
Book reveals the origins of Japan's myths in the very different realms of Buddhism, Shinto, and folklore, and explores related mythologies of the Ainu and Okinawan cultures and recent myths arising from Japan's encounters with modernization.
$25
Art in Theory, 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
Charles Harrison, Paul Wood
This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s.
$42
Art in Theory, 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger
Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
$55
Art in Theory, 1815-1900: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger
The ideas of some of the most influential artists, writers and thinkers of our times about 19th century art are collected in this vast collection of essays. Collectively they tackle difficult issues like the definition of Modern art and tracing the history of aesthetics.
$60
Albrecht Dürer and His Legacy, The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist
Giulia Bartrum, Gunter Grass, Joseph L. Koerner, Ute Kuhlemann
This book traces Albrecht Dürer's work and influence from his earliest career to his powerful posthumous role within German culture, surveys all of the artist's best-known prints, drawings and watercolors.
$65
Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture
Annettte Stott
This book deals with the change in sensibility in U.S. art and culture, between 1890 and 1920, when a significant part of the American middle and upper classes celebrated all things Dutch and “Dutchness”.
$66
Selections from the New Hollstein Dutch Series
Hollstein is a household word to all students of the great Northern European schools of printmaking. It is a universally known standard reference work with a status enjoyed by few other scholarly publications.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Nadine M. Orenstein
$685
Jacob Matham
Lena Widerkehr
$685
Rembrandt as an Etcher, The Practice of Production and Distribution (3 Parts)
$685
Early American Papermaking: Two Treatises on Manufacturing Techniques Reprinted from James Cutbush's American Artist's Manual (1814)
This text first appeared in James Cutbush's The American Artist's Manual (Philadelphia: 1814) and is reprinted in full.
$1000
National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume II: Venice 1540-1600
Nicholas Penny
This volume documents the National Gallery's unrivaled collection of Venetian paintings created between 1540 and 1600, including some of the greatest works commissioned by the city from Veronese, Titian, Tintoretto, and the Bassano family.
$115
Set Urushi: The Standard Work On Japanese Lacquer
Urushi No Waza
Urushi No Waza gives a so far unique overview of one of the most fascinating areas of Japanese craftwork.
$115
DECADE: Contemporary Collecting 2002–2012
Texts by David Pagel and Heather Pesanti
This exhibition catalogue celebrates the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's intense collecting activity from 2002 to 2012.
$150
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