Art History

Celebrate the enchantment of the Harry Potter films with this lock and key diary that features a classic gold Hogwarts crest on the cover, 192 rule...

Haplomatics is an animated techno-fantasy that combines original text and music by the American composer James Sellars with xerographs by the Briti...

An Omaha collection exploring legacies of abstraction and experimental approaches to painting The monumental gift of art from the Phillip G. Schra...

The 1960s transformed art in Canada. The Scene traces the remarkable reshaping of the Canadian art landscape during that era. Written by renowned a...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner regarded the picture and its frame as a unit. Contrary to Kirchners intention that they belong together, over the years some ...

Lies of the Land examines the often-overlooked artistic roots of mapmaking practice in early modern France, offering an original perspective on dis...

From the Battle of Marathon to the Minotaur, from the Acropolis to Aristotle, from Theseus to the Theban hegemony, from slavery to Sparta, The Ency...

Rome may have fallen in the late fifth century CE, but more than 1,500 years later its mark on Europe and around the Mediterranean is still evident...

How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of th...

An examination of shifting notions of identity in modern-day Germanyand the diverse artists challenging conventional meanings of Germanness today  ...

For almost half a century Valentino dominated Italian haute couture, dressing the worlds wealthiest and most glamorous women. Only a few years afte...

This anthology honors Lawrence Nees expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from ...

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is without doubt the most famous Latin-American painter of the 20th century and a fundamental figure in Mexican art. Her wo...

What is design in modern China? And what are the ecological stakes in understanding how modern Chinese design encourages us to see? This book takes...

The Kisokaid route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the countrys then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be inst...

A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world.Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted...

The first publication to celebrate the British Museums rich collection of these technically sophisticated artworks created as part of Japanese cult...

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas fo...

Aesthetic acts and artifacts are conditioned just as much by their materials as by the medial processes in which they are embedded. This interdisc...

A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centered on sculptural experimentation   As the first comprehensive avant-garde of...

The wall paintings from the West House at Mycenae are discussed in relation to their context within the building. Their iconography and stylistic d...

No German painter evokes such strong emotions as Caspar David Friedrich: his evening skies remain icons of longing, his mountain vistas testaments ...

Offering a new perspective on British fashion history, Wholesale Couture demonstrates that these couturiers were vital in cementing Londons status ...

This book is the first comprehensive overview of the pioneering works, events, and people that contributed to the paradigm shift defined by computa...

This book is the first comprehensive overview of the pioneering works, events, and people that contributed to the paradigm shift defined by computa...

This stunning catalogue of 15th and 16thcentury Italian drawings from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will showcase highlights from this outstanding ...

This book takes a timely look at how Scotlands national politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring the role the architecture of Scotl...