Art History

Winifred Knights (1899-1947) is one of the outstanding, but until recently neglected, British women painters of the first half of the 20th century....

Focusing on the British virtuoso Rex Whistler (19051944), who was linked to many of the most illustrious figures of the inter-war period, this book...

Starving Artist Knifed to Death in Village Room Famous Artist Dies Penniless and All Alone Deep in the archives of The Metropolitan Museum of Art a...

This is the first book in over a century to examine the important work of the watercolour artist and illustrator Frederick Walker (18401875) and hi...

The National Gallery Companion Guide celebrates over 200 masterpieces from one of the finest art collections in the world. The reader is guided thr...

To the question of &lquo;what is art?&rquo;, it is often simply responded that art is whatever is produced by the artist. For John Molyneux...

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both i...

Woodland Imagery in Northern Art reconnects us with the woodland scenery that abounds in Western painting, from Albrecht Dürers intense studies of ...

Influenced by anarchism and especially by anarcho-syndicalist Georges Sorel, the political praxis of Peruvian activist and scholar José Carlos Mari...

To the question of what is art?, it is often simply responded that art is whatever is produced by the artist. For John Molyneux, this clearly circu...

Examining representations of the female body in postrevolutionary genre literatureIn this volume, Sara Potter uses the idea of the muse from Greek ...

Examining representations of the female body in postrevolutionary genre literatureIn this volume, Sara Potter uses the idea of the muse from Greek ...

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbrea...

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

In 2007 Romany Mark Bruce, Irish-born lawyer and self-taught artist, was confronted by a stranger while walking his dog in Kemptown, Brighton. I wa...

The first comprehensive account of Charles J. Connick, Americas most innovative and influential stained glass artist working in the first half of t...

Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive is a unique guide to the role of garment archives as an industry resource for designers to research and exa...