Art History

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas fo...

Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence of life-sized ...

More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street s...

The decorated Ice Age caves are some of mankinds greatest artistic achievements, and there is no substitute for seeing the caves themselves. There ...

At the age of six, Salvador Dalí (19041989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. Since then, he later said, my ambit...

This important addition to our understanding of art historys masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to...

This important addition to our understanding of art historys masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to...

This important addition to our understanding of art historys masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to...

The critically acclaimed definitive biography of Kate Bush, revised and updated for 2024, with a new foreword by Sinead Gleeson.Detailing everythin...

Augustus John & the First Crisis of Brilliance tells the story of a remarkable generation and its artistic achievements. Accompanying Piano Nob...

This is the first book length study of Salon caricature, a widespread genre of press illustration that flourished in Paris in the second half of th...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at onc...

Vivid color, organic forms, and a loathing of straight lines were just a few stalwart characteristics in the unique practice of Friedensreich Hunde...

Serial Drawing offers a timely and rigorous exploration of a relatively little-researched art form. Serial drawings artworks that are presented as...

In this book, author Martin Munro offers a new path into Caribbean studies based on sound. He argues that to understand and begin to transform the ...

In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. Noël investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century re...