Art History

The Düsseldorf Art Academy has trained painters, sculptors, set designers and architects for more than 200 years. Numerous artists of international...

Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line stages a beyond-disciplinary, inter-subjective encounter between the lines of choreography, drawin...

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

Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser accompanies the Blanton Museums mid-career survey of the work of Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian, organized ...

The Virgin and Child Hodegetria was a widely venerated Byzantine image depicting the Virgin holding and pointing to her son as the way to salvation...

Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the ...

As a social phenomenon and a commonplace of internet culture, virality provides a critical vocabulary for addressing questions raised by the global...

The ancient city of Teotihuacan, North America's first metropolis, flourished for nearly eight centuries in central Mexico until its demise in 650 ...

In this book, Hilda Lloréns offers a ground-breaking study of imagesphotographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and filmsabout Puerto Rico and Puer...

This examines how Poussin cultivated a poetics of painting from the literary culture of his own time, and especially through his response to the wo...

This book provides a new perspective on Sienese painting after the Black Death, asking how social, religious, and cultural change affect visual ima...

This book examines the effects of the Peloponnesian War on the arts of Athens and the historical and artistic contexts in which this art was produc...

This samurai strategy books is the first widely available English translation of Yamamoto Kansuke's classic treatise on strategy and tactics.Secret...

Spectators at the sides of narrative vase paintings have long been at the margins of scholarship, but a study of their appearance shows that they p...

In the late fifteenth century, votive panel paintings, or tavolette votive, began to accumulate around reliquary shrines and miracle-working images...

Imagery and iconography served specific functions in public, private, and ritual spheres in the Roman world. State-sanctioned imagery communicated ...