Brad Finger

This incandescent book charts the many ways artists have represented the fierce bonds that shape human life—from sacred devotion to erotic desire.Transporting readers across centuries and cultures, the volume pairs fifty artworks with brief, incisive essays that consider how love has been pictured, interpreted, and expressed in different mediums. Each entry examines a single work—ranging from early religious icons and Renaissance portraits to Rococo seductions, modernist experimentations, and contemporary provocations—and...