Art History

Winner, Award of Merit for Non-Fiction, The Philosophical Society of Texas, 2015Before Abstract Expressionism of New York City was canonized as Ame...

The Encyclopedia of East Asian Design is the first comprehensive publication to focus on East Asian design and its histories. Although definition...

Modern Asian Design provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of Asian design in the modern period, both tracing historical threads ...

This exploration of Petrit Halilajs site-specific installation reflects the artists personal experience as a refugee of war and the universal hopes...

In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass cons...

Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2019Quito, Ecuador, was one of colonial South Americas most important artistic cen...

This catalogue sheds new light on the Paris Olympics of 1924, often considered the first international games. From their origins in ancient Greece ...

The beauty of nature and mans loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small hum...

Mary Beale (16331699) was one of the earliest professional women artists in Britain. Her successful career was documented by her husband, Charles, ...

The Bronze Age (1700500 BCE) petroglyphs of southern Scandinavia comprise a unique tradition of rock art in northern Eurasia. Despite a limited rep...

Art collector, patron and arbiter Hanna Bekker vom Rath (18931983) was a trailblazer for the artistic avant-garde and one of the most important fe...

In London in 1770 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (17421799) remarked, What a work could be written on Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick! There is somet...

Clothes define people. A persons attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, persona...