Art History

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...

Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester...

This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and p...

This excavation of a Late Bronze Age town on the island of Mochlos in northeastern Crete includes the House of the Metal Merchant (with two large b...

In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photographys vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the ninete...

Situated at the interface of philosophy, aesthetics and art history, this collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent s...

Islamic art is justly famed for its technological sophistication, varied approaches to ornament, and innovative employment of the written word. But...

The first biography of Roland Penrose, one of the great English-born practitioners of modernism in the twentieth centuryAs an artist, an impresario...

From the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. W...

Assembling the foremost scholars in this innovative, distinctive and expanding subject, internationally well-known critical theorists John Armitage...

Bringing to light the largely overlooked female participation in domestic and international art worlds, this book offers the first comprehensive s...

Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, lingu...