Art History

In May 1880 Captain F.C. Burton, a British political officer in Afghanistan, rescued a group of merchants who had been captured by bandits while tr...

Goldsmiths were among the most highly regarded craftsmen in the medieval world, making extravagant objects from precious gold and silver, often enr...

This book rewrites the history of jewellery in the age of Victoria. The age of Victoria is taken in its widest sense to encompass jewellery made th...

Guy de Cointets experimental art used a combination of cryptography, typography, and tropes in visual installation pieces and performance art, book...

A beautifully illustrated book celebrating the significance of trees throughout history and across the globe, looking at their place in nature, fic...

When using digital technologies, many types of dysfunction can occur, ranging from hardware malfunctions to software errors to human ineptitude. Ma...

Florence is justly named the 'cradle of the renaissance'. It was here that, inspired by the revival of interest in classical antiquity, fuelled by ...

In the history of twentieth century modernism, Henri Matisse is a calm and unstoppable revolution of creative genius. Trained originally in the Fr...

The Mogao grottoes in northwestern China, located near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant...

Hundreds of works of pre-Columbian art, little known to the general public or specialist, are brought together in this lavishly illustrated volume....

Paik is considered the founder of video art and was one of the first artists to bring television into the realm of art, treating it as a tactile an...

Pictures of poetic power and joie-de-vivre and characters, syllables of words and digits hidden in layers of painting: Maria Beykirch fires the ima...

Mona Hatoum: Turbulence brings to the forefront the diversity of Mona Hatoum's work over the last 30 years. Published to accompany an exhibition i...

The Cleveland table fountain, dated c. 1320–40, is the only version of its kind to have survived in its complete form from the Middle Ages. A super...