Art History

In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the B...

Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, ...

Die Sammlungsgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit ist von einer zunehmenden Differenzierung der Sammlungsinteressen, von einer Internationalisierung des ...

In der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts bricht sich in der Kunst Mitteleuropas eine Tendenz zu expressiven Ausdrucksformen in Malerei, Skulptur u...

Two important essays on Étienne-Jules Marey published for the first time in English alongside his breathtaking images of moving air and smoke. Feat...

Pearls on a String presents the arts of historical Islamic cultures by focusing on specific people and relationships among cultural tastemakers, es...

Contrary to general belief, the history of the Florentine patriciate did not end with the establishment of the State of Tuscany under de' Medici in...

Featuring dozens of compelling images, this transformative reading of borderland and Mexican cultural productionfrom body art to theater, photograp...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminoso...

Pierre Culot (1938-2011) was a Belgian ceramist and sculptor who was trained by Antoine de Vinck and English master potter Bernard Leach. He is one...

The New Vienna School was and is the image-based alternative to iconology Explains and contextualizes the Gestalt theoretical basis of the New...

This volume investigates the artistic development during the Qing Dynasty, the last of imperial Chinese dynasties, and shows the importance of oper...

The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but unequal spheres. In...

The photographs in this volume are evocations made visible through reflection, observation, exploration, and expressionthe embodiment of memory, re...

It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were ma...

The princeps Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Ma...

Mariano Fortuny was a visionary designer and artist best known today for his rich, innovative textiles and opulent dress designs, he was also an a...

This work is the first thorough analysis of the creative oeuvre of the Quay Brothers. Known for their animation shorts that rely on puppetry, minia...