MFA Publications

Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world's most renowned contemporary artists. And yet, despite the centrality of biography and testimony to his work, Boltanski's own...

In the years of his greatest dominance, Clement Greenberg almost single-handedly established Jackson Pollock and the New York School at the centre of the American art world. His work set the tone for art criticism for half a century to come. This biography, based...

The craze for all things Japanese in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought a correspondingly radical shift in Western art, dubbed Japonisme. Leading artists, including Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, were inspired by Japanese art and culture to create works of singular...

In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, e-mail, Flickr and Facebook all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the globe, wreaking havoc on international postal systems and giving rise to anecdotes about overburdened postmen who had to leave bags of cards undelivered....

The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over the last four hundred years.From enslaved craftspersons to contemporary painters, printmakers and sculptors, they have created a wealth of artistic expression that addresses common experiences,...

An album of the stars of Paris nightlife, as seen by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec who captured their performances in great works of art and helped make them famousThis tour of the Parisian scene focuses on six performers who were depicted in and in some...

Photographer Eugène Atget is best known as a chronicler of a romantic, if disappearing, Paris around the turn of the 20th century. This book presents a series of postcards depicting Paris’s petits métiers, or little trades, exploring another side to Atget’s oeuvre. More or...

This book gathers the essential writings and declarations that defined this movement, offering readers an insightful look into the minds of those who sought to break free from tradition and reshape the future of art. After an introduction setting aspects of Futurism in the...