Art History

Winner of the 2023 IPPY Gold Religion Nonfiction category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Award Centuries of monumental sculpture, e...

Defending National Treasures explores the fate of art and cultural heritage during the Nazi occupation of France. The French cultural patrimony was...

The definitive history of a cherished East Los Angeles institution over five decades of art making and community building.  Self Help Graphics at F...

A monumental gathering of more than 60 contemporary artists, photographers, musicians, writers and more, showcasing diverse approaches to Indigenou...

Highlighting the strong bond between a collector and an art dealer, Shared Passion explores a remarkable collection of African art assembled in the...

Michelangelo's originality as an artist lay not only in ideas about perfection and beauty, but also in his unique approach to the artistic process ...

Ravenna was one of the most important cities of late antique Europe. Between 400 and 751 AD, it was the residence of western Roman emperors, Ostrog...

A multidisciplinary illustrated reader unpacking imperialist representations of Africa by promoting dialogue, memory and everyday practice, and rei...

The Swiss-born artist Albert von Keller (1844-1920) was a founding member of the Munich Secession, one of Europe's most influential artists' associ...

Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology...

Close Reading rückt programmatisch das Kunstwerk ins Zentrum konzentrierter kunsthistorischer Interpretationen. 72 internationale Autorinnen und Au...

In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers...

In Maya theology, everything from humans and crops to gods and the world itself passes through endless cycles of birth, maturation, dissolution, de...

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

Der heutige Museumsbesucher orientiert sich an eingeübten Verhaltensmustern, die eine eigene Geschichte haben. In dieser Studie wird am Beispiel de...

Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic str...

Mel Katz is a highly regarded Portland sculptor and teacher whose work is firmly rooted in the principles of geometric abstraction. He moved to Por...

The margins of the Americasborders that are at once physical and societalengender sacred figures who walk the fine line between sinfulness and sanc...

This book examines Greek vase-paintings that depict humorous, burlesque, and irreverent images of Greek mythology and the gods. Many of the images ...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at onc...

From impossible staircases to tessellated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (18981972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and ma...