Art History

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

This book focuses on key monuments of the Baroque style, which varies in different European contexts. It is intended to affirm the existence of ind...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

With an emphasis on photographic works that offer new perspectives on the history of American social documentary, this book considers a history of ...

Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture ac...

This book follows Chagalls life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being. It takes the reader through t...

As its title suggests, Negative/Positive begins with the negative, a foundational element of analog photography that is nonetheless usually ignored...

Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design challenges the received narrative on the artists, exhibitions, and interp...

This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations. It examines the aesthetic aspects of the interface...

Despite the censorship of dissident material during the decade between the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941,...

Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly char...

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nations demise as a world power, this stud...

This volume brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the Covid-...

This book challenges existing notions of what is American and/or Asian art, moving beyond the identity issues that have dominated art-world convers...

Rooted in the study of objects, British Art in the Nuclear Age addresses the role of art and visual culture in discourses surrounding nuclear scien...

This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication,...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

This book represents the first study dedicated to Twentieth Century German Art, the 1938 London exhibition that was the largest international respo...

In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, Healthis the thing! Though recently diagnosed with intestinal canc...

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europes east as a socio-...

This book unfolds a history of American basketry, from its origins in Native American, immigrant, and slave communities to its contemporary presenc...