Art History

The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora engages in a critical conversation about how historical subjects a...

The Art of the Eurasian Steppe is a contextual analysis which traces the stylistic transformation of artefacts depicting animals from various cultu...

The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics...

Antoine-Chrysosthôme Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849) was the most distinguished writer on art and architecture at the end of the enlightenment. Ho...

Conceptualizes graft the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century IndiaGrafted ...

Islamic Art and Visual Culture is a collection of primary sources in translation accompanied by clear and concise introductory essays that provide ...

The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the close of the nine...

In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of intern...

Thinking about Art explores some of the greatest works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to ...

A public art movement initiated by the postrevolutionary state, Mexican muralism has long been admired for its depictions of popular struggle and s...

Fifty years after Picassos death, this magnificent collection of drawings offers a career-spanning tour of the artists brilliant and dynamic use of...

The lively and revealing correspondence that Vincent van Gogh maintained with his art-dealer brother Theo is famous as a source of insight into the...

Alice Neel's unstinting, visionary engagement with the lives of those around her resulted in an inclusive oeuvre. This aspect of queer representati...

Artistic resilience in the face of increasing meteorological threats to the Caribbean Hurricanes and the devastation they bring have long been a p...

This newly selected edition of William Morris's works brings together poetry and prose, lectures, articles, and letters from his life, ordered chro...

A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European ...

Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 18471890), o...