Art History

DIGITAL UPDATE available for Fall 2021 classes For survey courses in Art History Experience the history of art through analysis of the objects the...

Where do we begin to talk about abstract art? This question depends on ones worldview. From the point of view of the collection included in this bo...

The Sister Chapel (1974-78) was an important collaborative installation that materialized at the height of the womens art movement. Conceived as a ...

After the heroic nudes of the Renaissance and depictions of the tortured bodies of Christian saints, early seventeenth-century French artists turne...

The Swiss artist David Bielander (b.1968) is one of the most significant proponents of contemporary art jewellery in the world. With him, nothing ...

Lavishly illustrated with over 80 full-color images, this book includes original art and artifacts from the distant past as well as modern work by ...

Distant blue hills, soaring trees, vast cloudless skies-the majesty of nature has always had the power to lift the human spirit. For some it evokes...

How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with ...

Drawn entirely from the collections of Grolier Club members, this catalogue is devoted to the husband and wife duo William (18241889) and Helen All...

The book examines how increasing engagement with the rest of the world transformed European art, architecture and design. It considers how commerci...

The comprehensive study of the Italian Renaissance altarpiece from the 13th to the early 17th century The altarpiece is one of the most distinctive...

Showcases the extraordinary work of notable American and European postwar artistsSeattle art collectors Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis were fr...

How museums visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulation Sarita See argues that collections of stolen artifacts form the foundation of Am...

Angel Vergaras work tests the limits of art and reality by questioning the way the contemporary image shapes the intermingled public and private sp...

An exploration of the treasures of Japanese art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reveals a wealth of fascinating works dating from prehistoric tim...

Presented in very clear and accessible language, Roman Art offers new and fascinating insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roma...