Art History

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...

This collection of essays by major scholars in the field explores how the rich intersections between Italy and Spain during the early modern period...

Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks the first sustained study of pendant paintings: discrete images designed as a pair...

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrat...

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake discusses the way Salas personal style, along with his innovations in form, influe...

Now in its second edition, this volume is an accessible introduction to the history of art. Using an international range of examples, it provides t...

Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were i...

This fully revised and updated third edition offers students and artists valuable insights into traditional color theory and its practical applicat...

Religion and Contemporary Art sets the theoretical frameworks and interpretive strategies for exploring the re-emergence of religion in the making,...

Religion and Contemporary Art sets the theoretical frameworks and interpretive strategies for exploring the re-emergence of religion in the making,...

This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by successive Chinese emp...

The cultural milieu in the Age of Goethe of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers pat...

This transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from, or worked in, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sápmi, and S...

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

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.The edited volume builds on recen...

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones ca...

Reconstruction and the Synthesis of the Arts in France, 19441962 considers the artistic, architectural and bureaucratic shifts that emerged in the ...

First published in 1999, this book asks what kind of advice was available to somebody wishing to embark upon oil painting in England between 1850 a...

The before-and-after trope in photography has long paired images to represent change: whether affirmatively, as in the results of makeovers, social...

The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroixs painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugos n...

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nations demise as a world power, this stud...

Indias Kochi-Muziris Biennale has been described as one of the most significant newly emergent biennales, alongside Shanghai, Sharjah and Dakar. Ho...

This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic...

This book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge research in the field of Russian and East European art hi...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

This book focuses on key monuments of the Baroque style, which varies in different European contexts. It is intended to affirm the existence of ind...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

With an emphasis on photographic works that offer new perspectives on the history of American social documentary, this book considers a history of ...

Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture ac...

This book follows Chagalls life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being. It takes the reader through t...

As its title suggests, Negative/Positive begins with the negative, a foundational element of analog photography that is nonetheless usually ignored...

Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design challenges the received narrative on the artists, exhibitions, and interp...

This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations. It examines the aesthetic aspects of the interface...

Despite the censorship of dissident material during the decade between the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941,...

Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly char...

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nations demise as a world power, this stud...