Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." Edgar DegasCovering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide ...

This comprehensive study of Rome’s contribution to the early history of photography traces the medium’s rise from a fledgling science to a dynamic ...

Sculptors Against the State considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of three iconic artists wh...

Claude Monet’s Water Lilies are widely recognized as a celebration of nature and a call to visual experience. The skilled brushwork, vivid color, a...

In his best-selling travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain punningly refers to the black man who introduces him to Venetian Renaissance pa...

Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a g...

Described in the New York Times as the greatest art historian America ever produced, Meyer Schapiro was both a close friend to many of the famous a...

Djuna Barnes once said that “there is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole object,” and the statement is provocative when conside...

Sculptors Against the State considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of three iconic artists wh...

This book addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of “Creole,” a label applied to white, black, and mixed-race persons born in French colon...

In Consuming Painting, Allison Deutsch challenges the pervasive view that Impressionism was above all about visual experience. Focusing on the lang...

Described in the New York Times as the greatest art historian America ever produced, Meyer Schapiro was both a close friend to many of the famous a...

Djuna Barnes once said that “there is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole object,” and the statement is provocative when conside...

In The Other American Moderns, ShiPu Wang analyzes the works of four early twentieth-century American artists who engaged with the concept of “Amer...

Matthew Rampley’s The Vienna School of Art History is the first book in over seventy-five years to study in depth and in context the practices of a...

The writers and artists of the Spanish avant-garde, enthralled with the streamlined, mass-produced commodities of the Machine Age, incorporated the...

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, photography underwent one of the most momentous transformations in its history, a renegotiation of t...

A milestone in American cultural history, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was one of the most broadly shared, heavily attended, and ...

Often seen as backward-looking and convention-bound, genre painting representing scenes of everyday life was central to the work of twentieth-centu...

All too often, the historical avant-garde is taken to be incommensurate with and antithetical to the world inhabited by the museum. In The Curatori...

Alexander Gardner is best known for his innovative photographic history of the Civil War. What is less known is the extent to which he was involved...

Animal rights activists today regularly use visual imagery in their efforts to shape the public’s understanding of what it means to be “kind,” “cru...

During the nineteenth century, Albrecht Dürer’s art, piety, and personal character were held up as models to inspire contemporary artists and—it wa...

Animal rights activists today regularly use visual imagery in their efforts to shape the public’s understanding of what it means to be “kind,” “cru...

Presents 570 newly discovered letters from Jane Morris to diverse correspondents, which radically revise the popular view of a silent, discontented...

The first full edition of the correspondence, between three artists Joanna Boyce, her brother George P. Boyce and Henry Wells, who she eventually ...

This book addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of “Creole,” a label applied to white, black, and mixed-race persons born in French colon...

In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist “science of imaginary solutions,” a concept that has been ...

In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photography’s vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the ninet...

As fin de siglo Spain struggled with perceived decadence and decline, the visual arts reflected the debate and influenced the outcome. This volume ...

This is an essential volume for anyone wanting to learn more about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their ethos, and offers the opportunity to st...

In a New Light is the first permanent collection catalogue in the Palmer Museum of Art’s fifty-two-year history. Made possible by a generous grant ...

In a New Light is the first permanent collection catalogue in the Palmer Museum of Art’s fifty-two-year history. Made possible by a generous grant ...