Art History

The essays and artworks gathered in this volume examine the visual manifestations of postcolonial struggles in art in East and Southeast Asia, as t...

By the time of his death in 1904, critics, arts reformers, and government officials were near universal in their praise of Art Nouveau designer Emi...

Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary investigates the pictorial representation of types from the sixteenth to the twenty- fi...

The book investigates the aesthetic theology embedded in the Franciscan artistic tradition. The novelty of the approach is in applying concepts gle...

This book examines the work of several modern artists, including Fortunato Depero, Scipione, and Mario Radice, who were working in Italy during the...

A unique opportunity to see rare and beautiful drawings by some of the biggest names in European art. Chatsworth House in Derbyshire holds one of t...

Along the River During the Qingming Festival is a renowned Chinese painting that captures the daily life of the Northern Song Dynasty. This artwork...

This edited volume proposes a theoretical reflection on the different artistic geographies of East-Central Europe (ECE) from an interdisciplinary p...

The palaces built in Rome in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are some of the most magnificent buildings in Europe yet they remain relativ...

A lavish, full-color volume featuring all of the works in the famous Lincoln Center collections The Lincoln Center Public Art Collection includes p...

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and gr...

Originally published in 2004. Once the most popular Victorian artist, G. F. Watts was also a complex and elusive figure. Influenced by evolutionary...

This volume explores the relationship between aesthetics and traditional multimodal communication to show how all semiotic resources, not just thos...

Penny Siopis is internationally acclaimed for her pathbreaking paintings and installations. Your History with Me is a comprehensive study of her sh...

The New York jewellery firm of Marcus & Co. (18921942) created exceptional examples of Art Nouveau and Art Deco jewellery for an art-loving, we...

This companion demonstrates how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity- and justice-driven....

Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe.Chapters present a ...

This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse...

With the words A new manifestation of art was ... expected, necessary, inevitable, Jean Moréas announced the advent of the Symbolist movement in 18...

India in Art in Ireland is the first book to address how the relationship between these two ends of the British Empire played out in the visual art...

This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in different cultures and the role that has been played by statues in ...

Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography...

This title was first published in 2002. Adrian Stokes was a British painter and writer whose books on art have been allowed to go out of print desp...

This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) in relation to his efforts to achieve belonging in the face of West Germanys increasing ...

In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything fr...

This volume explores the relationship between aesthetics and traditional multimodal communication to show how all semiotic resources, not just thos...

This book examines the early development of the graphic arts from the perspectives of material things, human actors and immaterial representations ...

This book focuses on the life and artistic activities of Emilio Sanchez (19211999) in New York, and Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s. More spec...

Blending popular culture and design theory, framed by a decade of scholarly research, this book highlights how play and humor fuel innovation. Now,...

Collage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis an...

Despite the tremendous number of studies produced annually in the field of Dutch art over the last 30 years or so, and the strong contemporary mark...