Art History

Chickadees amid cherry blossoms, peacocks nestled in wisteria branches, sleeping owls against a moonlit night sky and majestic cranes diving in the...

In 1624, Giovanni Battista Braccelli an artist from Florence, Italy created a series of imaginary characters composed of elements like clouds, diam...

This is a irresistible and wonderfully illustrated exploration of the history of colour in art. The history of art is inseparable from the history ...

Dora Carringtons artworks, letters, and drawings are used to reposition her in the history of Modern British art, demonstrating her remarkable life...

Behold the stunningly stylized renderings of Godzilla and the many monsters from Monster Island in this one-of-a kind collectible. Delve into the l...

A captivating exploration of the life and work of the iconic South African artist Esther Mahlangu, one of the great innovators of Pan-African Conte...

A major new survey of American sculpture, exploring how it both reflects and redefines concepts of race and identity in the United StatesWhen viewi...

On the one hand clothes can supposedly help you out with embodied life by concealing the bits you feel ashamed of and accentuating the bits you're ...

An intimately candid memoir about the ambitions, struggles, and achievements of one of Canada's most prolific and important modernist artists.Why d...

The Washington Principles of 1998 call for just and fair solutions in handling Nazi-looted art. At that same time, Austria was the only European st...

The power of poetry, a topos since Plato, undergoes a radical transformation in literary texts between 1770 and 1830. Concepts of divine or uncons...

Developing an art-historically relevant and innovative question based on a key object is a complex matter. Each focused examination not only opens ...

Vier Bände im Schuber Emil Orlik (18701932) war Maler, Grafiker, Fotograf, Exlibris-Künstler, Medailleur und Kunsthandwerker: ein Allround-Talent....

The series Notizen zu Uecker publicizes the research of GUI fellowship holders. In Nick Böhnke's study Berührung im Entzug. Struktur, Temporalität ...

The planning history of St. Peter's in Rome at the beginning of the 16th century has been an important topic of art historical research since the ...

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR T...

From a modern perspective, the secular and religious spheres separated at the close of the late mediaeval period. This study is the first to make c...

Friedrich Preller der Ältere prägte mit seinen mythologischen Landschaften das Ideal einer am klassischen Kanon orientierten Kunstauffassung des 19...

Born in southern Germany, Philipp Jakob Straub is one of the most important representatives of 18th century Austrian Baroque sculpture. For the fir...

Future Bodies from a Recent Past brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art and sculpture in particular: the reciprocal interpenetr...

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term intersectionality was coined in 1989, the existence of margina...