Art History

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...

Eine Minute und dreißig Sekunden ist die durchschnittliche Länge, die für einen Beitrag in einem Nachrichtenblock vorgesehen ist. Die Künstlerin Mo...

Around 100 of the most beautiful prints from the heyday of Japanese woodblock printing are shown in this first publication featuring a previously l...

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

Since the mid-1960s, Peter Brötzmann has made a decisive impact on the international free jazz and improvized music scene; parallel to his musical ...

The artist Zoltan Kemenys space sculpture of 1963 in the glass foyer of the Städtische Bühnen (Municipal Stages) in Frankfurt am Main shapes the fa...

The Man with the Slouch Hat by Frans Hals is one of the best-known masterpieces of Kassels Picture Gallery. During his visit in 1907 Lovis Corinth...

This large, beautifully produced volume is acompanion to the acclaimed Chihuly, Volume 1 originally published in 1997, which covered the first 30 y...

How do artists, communities, and art connect with one another? How might multiple feminist views be used to interpret art? Art, Feminism, and Commu...

A sweeping look at the history of the artist collective whose graphic poster designs helped define the visual culture of AIDS activism Gran Fury (...

Nearly four decades of work from the photographer who redefined the expression of gender in contemporary queer portraiture A leading voice in cont...

This ground-breaking book is the first to address the feminine and feminist politics of Intimiste art - a modernist mode of art making developed in...

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

Examining the history of photography and the mediums uses beyond fine art Since photographys beginnings in the 19th century, the medium has consta...

By exploring diagrams, diagramming and the diagrammatic across a range of disciplines and arts-led practices, this open access book addresses the g...

The first-ever English translation of Bruno Munaris classic treatise on creativity, replete with new contextualizing annotations But isnt imagina...