Art History

The French Revolution had a marked impact on the ways in which citizens saw the newly liberated spaces in which they now lived. Painting, gardening...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

The practice of walking to a sacred space for personal and spiritual transformation has long held a place in the British imagination. Art and the S...

This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19t...

Focusing on images of or produced by well-to-do nineteenth-century European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as resistant to easy cod...

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation cartographic abstraction a material modality of thought and experience that i...

This book focuses on avant-garde literature and art in Europe and America during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It examines five movem...

Over the last forty years, renewed interest in the career of Henry Ossawa Tanner (18591937) has vaulted him into expanding scholarly discourse on A...

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in ant...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provid...

Zeitgenossen rühmten die überaus erfolgreichen Bücher des Kunstschriftstellers und Kritikers Julius Meier-Graefe (18671935) als »neue Schule des Se...

This is the first book to develop a postmigrant analytical perspective for the study of art, concentrating on how postmigration reopens the study o...

From Edouard Manets portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Goghs meticulous copies of the Hiroshige p...

The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audien...

Out of My Great Sorrows is the story of Philadelphia artist Mary Zakarian, whose life and work were shaped by the experiences of her mother, a surv...

This book reframes the formative years of three significant artists: Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse Legros, and James McNeill Whistler. The trios co...

This book offers a reassessment of how matter in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture pursued a radical definition of multipli...

This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual...

Collage and Literature analyzes how and why the history of literature and art changed irrevocably beginning in the early years of the twentieth cen...

This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-fi...

How German Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National Socialism Still Lives is a systematic study of the ways Jew...

Creative visions of Arctic geography from Indigenous perspectives_x000D_ _x000D_ Grounded in the spatiality of Indigenous existence, Circumpolar Co...