Art History

Ethereal sculptures and installations meditating on our sensory experiences Japanese artist Kohei Nawa (born 1975) explores scientific and digital...

Mosaic has been called painting for eternity, and it is in fact one of the few arts of antiquity to survive in something like its original conditio...

War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of criti...

Frederic Church, the acclaimed Hudson River School artist, first traveled to Maine in 1850. Over the next decades Church ventured repeatedly from h...

The visual legacy of early modern cardinals constitutes a vast and extremely rich body of artworks, many of superb quality, in a variety of media, ...

This long-awaited volume brings together much of Brian ODohertys most influential writing, including essays on major figures such as Edward Hopper,...

Who spoke of the modern in Southeast Asia? When and where was the modern written? How was it written? How was it received? This collection brings t...

This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Halss highly innovative approach to male portraiture. Frans Hals is one of...

As time passes, personal memories of the Great Depression die with those who lived through the desperate 1930s. In the absence of firsthand knowled...

Moteuczoma, the last king who ruled the Aztec Empire, was rarely seen or heard by his subjects, yet his presence was felt throughout the capital ci...

A fresh approach to the construction of Anglo-Saxon England and its depiction in art and writing. This book explores the ways in which early medie...

A bold investigation into the changing meaning of public sculpture across 50 years In 1972, British artist Garth Evans (born 1934) temporarily ins...

Vibrant colour was essential to the paintings of the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), and when he began exploring outdoor sculptur...

Der schottische Bildhauer und Graphiker Eduardo Paolozzi (19242005) war Mitbegründer der britischen Pop-Art. Bereits in den 1950er Jahren sorgte er...

Historische Bauwerke erlauben uns Einsichten in das Wesen an sich bereits verflüchtigter, auf andere Weise nicht mehr erfahrbarer Zeitabschnitte. D...

With a career spanning more than 70 years, Liu Kuo-sung is a pioneering figure in modern Chinese ink. He has forged new ways of thinking about the ...