Art History

Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey fr...

A new approach to the work of self-taught artist James Castle that focuses on how his drawings and practice resonate with earlier masters Drawing o...

Artist and illustrator Elizabeth Gould is finally given the recognition she deserves in this gorgeous volume that includes hundreds of her stunning...

This book surveys how humans across Eurasia depicted their knowledge of the heavens over a period of nearly 4,000 years. Frequently focusing on eni...

Memory as a dynamic process has been the underlying theme of Sabine Moritz s drawings and paintings since the early 1990s. In her work the Cologne-...

The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rub...

Gustave Caillebotte was more than a painter: he collected and researched postage stamps; designed and built yachts; administered and participated i...

Farah Nayeri addresses the difficult questions plaguing the art world, from the bad habits of Old Masters, to the current grappling with identity p...

Finely decorated ceramic vessels made for cooking, storage, and serving were a hallmark of Native Caddo cultures. The tradition began as many as 3,...

Blending popular culture and design theory, framed by a decade of scholarly research, this book highlights how play and humor fuel innovation. Now,...

Materiality is a recurring and central issue in architecture. This book explains how materials are constructed, how they become cultural substances...

This book examines Marius Barbeaus career at Canadas National Museum (now the Canadian Museum of History), in light of his education at Oxford and ...

In 1639, while the Géluk School of the Fifth Dalai Lama and Qing emperors vied for supreme authority in Inner Asia, Zanabazar (1635-1723), a young ...

A compact biography of one of nineteenth-century Englands most renowned illustrators.   George Cruikshank (17921878) was a key transitional figure ...

Brilliantly articulating the potent intersections of semiotic and linguistic anthropology, Signs and Society demonstrates how a keen appreciation o...

One of The Eighta major group in the history of American paintingJohn Sloan was also an illustrator and cartoonist. Sloan kept an almost daily diar...

Revelation serves as the catalogue for the first retrospective in Spain dedicated to Leonora Carrington (Clayton-le-Woods, United Kingdom, 1917-Mex...

Gathered from across the centuries and around the world, this collection of Passover art and objects is at once a breathtaking visual treasury and ...

The fascinus, or phallus, was at the heart of classical Roman art and life. No god was more represented in ancient Rome than the phallic deity Pria...