Art History

The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic mad...

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...

Cartomania was a photographic phenomenon that seized the public imagination at the beginning of the 1860s. Small portraits, dubbed cartes de visite...

The rise of the Art Nouveau style across Continental Europe and the US in all forms of art was remarkable and is explored in this beautifully illus...

A major reassessment of the methods and meaning of impressionismAt pivotal moments in his career, Claude Monet would go out with a fellow artist, p...

A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of printIn process and technique, printmaking is an a...

Rock art etched in blood-red lines into granite cliffs, boulders, and caves appears as beguiling, graffiti-like abstraction. What are these signs...

Gillian White, born 1939 in Orpington, Kent, has gained wide recognition for her work of monumental steel sculptures, the majority of them located ...

The Californian artist Robert Therrien has been highly renowned for his large-size sculptures and room installations since the 1980s. Besides these...

Hermann Obrist (1863-1927) is regarded as one of the most influential founders and visionaries of the German 'Jugendstil' (art nouveau) movement. H...

How has the process of globalization shaped artistic practices on the one hand, and art history and theory on the other? The contributions in this...

James Hardimans 1820 _History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway_, is a book treasured as a classic of Irish history and tradition, and t...

This gem of a catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, on one of the great painters of 17th-century Italy, Giovanni...