Observations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, Comments by Truman Capote Allen Ruppersberg while art historian Yvonne Owens

while art historian Yvonne Owens focuses on her references to classical still-life painting and writer Naomi Fry delineates some of her pop-culture touchstones

Lichtenstein made a number of paired works as diptychs

Each has a label noting the country from which its drawing originates

science and scientific thinking intersect with art—probing and searching intellectually and philosophically while seeking material consequences and outcomes

Observations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, Comments by Truman Capote Allen Ruppersberg while art historian Yvonne OwensThis early book on Richard Avedon presents the photographers striking portraits from the 1940s and 50s of luminaries such as Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Brigitte Bardot, Truman Capote, Gabrielle Chanel, Charlie Chaplin, Jacques Cousteau, Marcel Duchamp, Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Marianne Moore, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Pablo Picasso, and Gloria Vanderbilt, among others. It also features an extended selection of images of postwar Italy