Art History

Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages is a panoramic survey that focuses on the arts of medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamicate world. Fro...

A critical reconsideration of the history of photography that explores how commerce and conflict fueled its practice in nineteenth-century China Ph...

How Venetian glass influenced American artists and patrons during the late nineteenth centurySargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass presents a broad...

Why painting today? In the digital age, with its powers of instant recall and infinite reproduction, why are we witnessing an unprecedented revival...

This is the first book to look at an increasingly popular form of street art: the paste-up or 'wheatie'. Many street artists dont graffiti or stenc...

Francis Bacon was one of the giants dominating the artistic landscape of the mid-twentieth century, and served as the inspiration and launching poi...

Claude Monet is best known as a leader of the Impressionists, his paintings defining the style that triggered a revolution in art. During the eig...

Leonardo da Vinci lived an itinerant life. Throughout his career from its beginnings in the creative maelstrom of fifteenth-century Florence to hi...

Rembrandt is probably the most famous Dutch painter of the seventeenth century. His works are greatly loved today, but he was not always so well re...

Mercurial, saturnine, scandalous and unpredictable, Caravaggio as a man, as a character and as an artist holds dramatic appeal. He spent a larg...

Modern art begins with Goya. He was the first to create works of art for their own sake, and he lived in a time of incredible cultural and social d...

A timely reconsideration of the history of photography that places Black studio photographers, and their subjects, at the center From photographys ...

A lively and thought-provoking tour of the intertwined histories of art and walking   A broad-ranging book [that] has something for every rambler.B...

In this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Dorothy Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned F...

This is a groundbreaking look at Muslim South Asian art. This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim Sou...