Art History

Seit über 200 Jahren bildet die Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Maler, Bildhauer, Bühnenbildner und Architekten aus. Zahlreiche Künstler von international...

Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the de...

Felt provides a nonlinear look at the engagement of the postwar avant-garde with Eastern spirituality, a context in which the German artist Joseph ...

If the source of manga and anime is physically located in Japan, the temptation for many critics and scholars is to ask what aspects of Japanese cu...

Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal langua...

From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China....

Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals. Charting its historica...

This book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and practices that meld or int...

The Annunciation: a specific event recounted in the Bible and often represented in artworks, but also the prototype of many other announcements thr...

Erstmals wird hier die Bildnissammlung der österreichischen Erzherzogin Maria Anna (1738-1789), Tochter Maria Theresias und Franz Stephans von Loth...

Auf den ersten Blick mag es überraschen, den Revolutionär Che Guevara als Heiligen und Jesus Christus, den Sohn Gottes, als Revolutionär zu sehen. ...

A critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin-de-siècle ParisBoth the Edo period (16031868) in Japan...

This book unravels the formation of the modern concept of cultural heritage by charting its colonial, postcolonial-nationalist and global trajector...

In seiner zweiten Monographie über architektonische Erinnerungskultur begibt sich Hauke Horn auf die Suche nach Spuren der Vergangenheit im mittela...

Entgegen einer weitverbreiteten Annahme existierte bereits lange vor der Moderne eine intensive künstlerische Beschäftigung mit okkulten und esoter...

2024 College Language Association Book Award Winner 2023 Hooks National Book Award Winner (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change) Honorable...

2024 College Language Association Book Award Winner 2023 Hooks National Book Award Winner (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change) Honorable...

Der gebürtige Mailänder Camillo Rusconi (16581728) gilt als der bedeutendste römische Bildhauer des Spätbarock. In dieser Studie widmet sich Frank ...

This attractive booklet is a guide to two walks around the historic town of Sandwich, once one of the great ports of medieval England. As a Cinqu...

In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants t...

A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste Rampant consumerism has inundated our planet ...

Das Buch komplettiert die Reihe der zu den mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien des nördlichen Sachsen-Anhalt erschienenen Bände des Corpus Vitrearum. G...

A beautifully produced volume featuring the work of a major German artist. While a face may be considered a head, a head does not necessarily carry...