Art History

This volume brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the Covid-...

This book challenges existing notions of what is American and/or Asian art, moving beyond the identity issues that have dominated art-world convers...

Rooted in the study of objects, British Art in the Nuclear Age addresses the role of art and visual culture in discourses surrounding nuclear scien...

This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication,...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

This book represents the first study dedicated to Twentieth Century German Art, the 1938 London exhibition that was the largest international respo...

In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, Healthis the thing! Though recently diagnosed with intestinal canc...

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europes east as a socio-...

This book unfolds a history of American basketry, from its origins in Native American, immigrant, and slave communities to its contemporary presenc...

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 15331612), 'the greatest artist youve never heard of'. One of the first original icon...

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, pre...

This collection of essays explores hybridity in early modern art through two primary lenses: hybrid media and hybrid time. The varied approaches in...

This book examines illustrations created to accompany fictions written by several of the most popular authors published in Britain and America betw...

Structured around sexual desire as the central analytical category, this monograph systematically approaches a heterogeneous array of artworks to p...

This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environme...

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

This book offers a renewed look at Emma Hamilton, the eighteenth-century celebrity who was depicted by many major artists, including Angelica Kauff...

This is the first full-length study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades ...

This book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings ...

First published in 1935, this book was intended to provide westerners with a more definite and comprehensive understanding of Chinese Art and its a...

Experiencing the Last Judgement opens up new ways of understanding a Byzantine image type that has hitherto been considered largely uniform in its ...

Despite the increased visibility of Victorian women artists in museum exhibitions and historical studies, the art produced by Victorian women has b...

The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange culturally, politically, and artistically across Eurasia.The wide-ranging ...

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the fi...

This title was first published in 2000. London in the nineteenth century saw the founding of the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, t...

This book explores how the Medici Grand Dukes pursued ways to expand their political, commercial, and cultural networks beyond Europe, cultivating ...

Published in 1981: This book is an illustrated catologue of Fine Art paintings from 1789-1889.

This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appea...

In this book, contributors identify and explore a range of iconic works Mistress-Pieces that have been made by feminists and gender activists sin...

This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industr...

In artworks from a mosaic by Marc Chagall to schoolchildren's paintings, in writings from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Annie Dillard, and in diverse pr...

This important book puts forward a new interpretation of Roman decorative art, focusing on the function of decoration in the social context. It exa...

This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other ...