Art History

What do the work processes of a neurosurgeon and a painter have in common? Applying the notions of Design, Gestaltung, and Formatività, this book ...

Bringing together a wealth of primary sources and with contributions from leading experts, Dress History of Korea presents the most recent approach...

From revelation to creation: play this memory game to learn about twenty-five 'eureka' moments in art history from 1907 to today. Ever pondered th...

Das künstlerische Schaffen während der 60er und 70er Jahre in Wien, Bali und Australien Beleuchtet die musikalischen Seite des Künstlers - Mitbegrü...

This volume includes all of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman votive reliefs found to date in the excavations of the Athenian Agora. In additio...

This monograph considers the painted frieze on the facade of Tomb II at Vergina (ca. 330-280 B.C.) as a visual document that offers vital evidence ...

In 1962, after a period of secret looting, the location of a shrine for the Greek Goddess Eileithyia was discovered by the police in south-central ...

In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist science of imaginary solutions, a concept that has been no...

Before the Museums Came: A Social History of the Fine Arts in the Twin Cities gives an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of Minneapolis and...

An introduction to the raucous yet educational gap year tours of Europe taken by wealthy British aristocrats in the eighteenth and early nineteenth...

One of the largest and most important palatial houses of late 18th- and early 19th-century Damascus, Bayt Farhi belonged to the Farhi family, who s...

Breaking out of Tradition traces the pioneering developments in lacquer art at the beginning of the 20th century in Japan. The lacquer artists of t...

This study, based on extensive archival research, sheds light on the writings attributed to the sixteenth-century sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (Libr...

Written artefacts are traditionally studied because of their content. Material aspects of these artefacts enrich the study of ancient history in ma...

This volume complements Lerna V: The Neolithic Pottery of Lerna, by K. D. Vitelli, and completes the primary publication of the results of the Neol...

The Temple of Athena at Sounion has long been recognized as one of the most unusual buildings in the architectural history of Greece. Its plan, wit...

Magritte, Bacon, Ensor, Moore, Jordaens, Rubens These were just some of the world-famous names on display at the MAS. The not-to-be-missed exhibit...