Art History

The planning history of St. Peter's in Rome at the beginning of the 16th century has been an important topic of art historical research since the ...

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR T...

From a modern perspective, the secular and religious spheres separated at the close of the late mediaeval period. This study is the first to make c...

Friedrich Preller der Ältere prägte mit seinen mythologischen Landschaften das Ideal einer am klassischen Kanon orientierten Kunstauffassung des 19...

Born in southern Germany, Philipp Jakob Straub is one of the most important representatives of 18th century Austrian Baroque sculpture. For the fir...

Future Bodies from a Recent Past brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art and sculpture in particular: the reciprocal interpenetr...

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term intersectionality was coined in 1989, the existence of margina...

Todays society is making great leaps in its effort to obtain ever more and ever more specific know-how in various specialties, with the consequence...

A fruitful visual dialogue between Chillida, his contemporaries and the art dealer who uplifted their idiosyncratic visions On the occasion of the...

This volume examines the role of fish and molluscs in everyday life as well as in terms of their impact on social structures, and as part of ideolo...

A Japanese teahouse, an audio installation with Nigerian sounds, and a bronze flagpole divided in two: In the extensive areas of the Humboldt Forum...

An authoritative analysis of the drawings (including watercolours and pastels) of twenty leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists in on...

This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the fit American ...

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both i...

This revised and updated edition addresses the international history and practice of design from the 17th century to the present day. Covering both...

This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, ps...

Deutsch-englische AusgabeJean Dubuffet veränderte den Kunstbegriff des 20. Jahrhunderts als Künstler und ebenso als Theoretiker und Sammler der Art...