Art History

Diego Rivera (18861957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was a...

Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what t...

The legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with 1980s New York, the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag ...

Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltze...

A Visual History of Graphic Design - A comprehensive look at hundreds of landmark projects, industry leaders profiles, and illustrated timelines fo...

This book tells the story of Yldz Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is...

In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigo...

Lovells poetical installations invoke the lost voices of African American ancestry A New York Times 'Best Art Books of 2023' pick Whitfield Love...

Um 1970, in seinen Berliner Jahren, entwickelt Rainer Tappeser (*1941) einen ganz eigenen malerischen Stil, den die Retrospektive in der Villa Gris...

How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessi...

How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessi...

Ernst Haeckel (18341919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flor...

Decorative handcrafts are commonly associated with traditional femininity and unthreatening docility. However, the artists connected with interwar ...

Painted riverscapes such as Claude Monet's impressions of the Seine, Isaak Levitan's Volga views, and Thomas Cole's Hudson scenery became iconic no...

The Art of Resistance surveys the lives of seven paintersDing Cong (19162009), Feng Zikai (18981975), Li Keran (190789), Li Kuchan (18981983), Huan...

Zina Saro-Wiwa: Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance? is the first publication on the work of Zina Saro-Wiwa, a British-Nigerian video artist a...

The years before World War I were a time of profound social and political ferment in Europe that deeply affected the art world. The center of this ...