Art Forms

This second volume in the catalogue describes 134 paintings and 57 watercolors by French artists, representative of the taste of the official Salon...

This book offers a fresh discussion of the methodology of music historiography. So far historiographical methodology has always depended on other f...

Speaking with Pictures offers a path-breaking exploration of visual narratives in folk art. It foregrounds folk art’s engagement with modernity by ...

This catalogue describes, in detail, 151 paintings and 60 drawings of the British, German, Italian and Spanish schools. It includes works by Gainsb...

In the Gilded Age, when most sculptors aspired to produce monuxadments, Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955) made significant contributions to small br...

Stanislavsky and Gender explores the intimate and complicated relationship between the enduring influence of Konstantin Stanislavsky and the evolvi...

The life of the painter and designer Duncan Grant spanned great changes in society and art, from Edwardian Britain to the 1970s, from Alma-Tadema t...

A ceramic artist and printmaker, Boyden has explored a wide variety of themes in his prints over the past twenty years, including animals, the land...

The Art of Mary Linwood is the first book on Leicester textile artist Mary Linwood (1755-1845) and catalogue of her work. When British textile arti...

Want to know what it’s like to write for a theme park attraction? Or an interactive toy? Or a virtual reality game? Wait – those tell stories? And ...

Henk Pander has lived in Portland, Oregon, for 45 years but describes himself as a "reluctant immigrant" from his native Holland. He has maintained...

Just what do psychoanalysis and modern sculpture have to do with one another? The present collection of essays, unique in its field, shows how key ...

A fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of America’s most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists Mark Rothko, one of the greates...

A Closer Look is the new series title for the updated and refreshed National Gallery Pocket Guide range. The series has been enhanced with a strong...

Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists, however the PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures esta...

Exciting, unexpected, realistic, impressionistic, abstract. The bunny paintings of celebrated artist Hunt Slonem have something for everyone. A tr...

Worcester Porcelain illustrates in colour a selection of items from the Henry Rissik Marshall Collection of 'First Period' Worcester Porcelain (175...

Louis Bunce: Dialogue with Modernism explores and assesses the art and life of the iconic Pacific Northwest modernist painter and printmaker who en...

In the Gilded Age, when most sculptors aspired to produce monuxadments, Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955) made significant contributions to small br...

Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen med...

The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' mod...

Focusing on fieldcraft techniques for macro and close-up photography, Thompson covers the vital but often overlooked skills necessary to achieve co...

"A premiere work offering a rich chronicle of weaving in Michigan. Colorful stories tell of Michigan's textile people, places, and events, and show...

Lavishly illustrated with nearly 400 color images, Painting the Maya Universe is the most thorough study and brilliant display of Classic Maya cera...

Focusing on the art and literary form of manga, this volume examines the intercultural exchanges that have shaped manga during the twentieth centur...

A fascinating look at how Mapplethorpe and Munch, although separated by many years, shared certain affinities in their lives and artwork This revel...

For a long time only slightly noticed, modernist movements in Chinese art history are gaining more and more recognition. One of its key fi gures is...

First published in 2005. The seals collected by Captain Timins of Cairo are here catalogued, reproduced and described by Professor Newbery to make ...

A groundbreaking study of textiles as transcultural objects in the Qing court that provides a new understanding of the interconnectedness of the ea...

Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and persp...

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were com...