Art History

The first monograph dedicated to the life and legacy of an under-recognized artist killed in the September 11 attacks American artist Michael Rich...

In many contemporary societies we encounter iconoclasm breaking out with renewed violence. Iconoclastic actions against objects of visual material ...

The great baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio revolutionized painting by creating a new form of realistic art. His work depicted life ...

Rembrandt van Rijn and the Netherlands shared a profound connection. Born in Leiden in 1606, the artist witnessed the birth of the independent Dutc...

This exploration of the exceptional Buddhist stupa (reliquary mound) at Amaravati, one of ancient India's most extraordinary monuments, presents a ...

Art is Magic is artist Jeremy Deller's attempt to tie up the key works of his career alongside the art, pop music, film, politics and history that ...

Vividly illustrated documentation of the artists participatory dining installation at Glenstone For more than 30 years, community has been central...

The artists featured in this book have embarked on the strange and risky path where they never quite know what they are making until it is finished...

Tracing corporeality and materiality across Cuban texts and images of the twentieth centuryThis volume looks at Cuban literature and art that chall...

A concise illustrated history of one of arts most important and elusive elementsOver the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate,...

Tracing corporeality and materiality across Cuban texts and images of the twentieth centuryThis volume looks at Cuban literature and art that chall...

The extraordinary story behind Degass groundbreaking painting of the African-American circus performer Miss La La.   Edgar Degass Miss La La at the...

For sculptors Alfred Gruber (1931-1972) and Jacqueline Stieger (b.1936), their meeting in 1962 marked the start of a bountiful partnership - their ...

An intimate portrait, based on newly discovered archival sources, of one of the most famous Jewish artists of the Italian Renaissance who, charged ...

Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (17601849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a ...

The story of the improbable campaign that created Americas most enduring monument.The Statue of Liberty is an icon of freedom, a monument to Americ...

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from t...

Even during the artist's lifetime, contemporary art lovers considered Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) to be an exceptional artist. In this revelator...

This book provides new impetus to the study of female art in regional areas. It will expand research beyond studies of women's lives, careers, soci...

Peter Perez Burdett (17331793) was the first person to practise aquatint engraving in Britain. He was also an ambitious map-maker, publishing a pri...