Art History

Highlighting the creativity and symbolism of covered portraits, this volume explores an intriguing but largely unknown aspect of Italian and Northe...

As both an activist and the dynamic editor of Negro Digest, Hoyt W. Fuller stood at the nexus of the Black Arts Movement and the broader black cult...

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Artists Who Chang...

Exquisite... intelligent, illuminating, mischievous delightful The TimesThe acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us...

Explores a new form of fiction that emerged in late-twentieth-century visual art across the Americas.   With Non-literary Fiction, Esther Gabara ex...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shi...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportat...

From Tudor times to the First World War, Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 15201920 will chart the journey of women to becoming professional...

Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of art production not only in animals, but al...

In Insurgent Aesthetics Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East...

Greek sculpture was among the first art to communicate human emotions and to offer a more realistic portrait of the individual. By working in new m...

Tula Telfairs hyper-realistic landscape paintings are at once awe-inspiring and extremely personal. Although vividly detailed, the scenes she depic...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made object...

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed ar...

This book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of li...

Although there have been over 700 illustrators of Poes work over the past two centuries, this book chooses to examine only the best of them. Beginn...