Art History

Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic society to flourish? In...

Time for Magic offers an entrancing overview of Jamie Reid's incredible art, structured around the eight seasonal festivals of the Wheel of the Yea...

In this volume, Felipe Rojas examines how the inhabitants of Roman Anatolia interacted with the physical traces of earlier civilizations in their m...

In Warring Visions, Thy Phu explores photography from dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after t...

A new account of the renowned Baroque painter, revealing how her astute professional decisions shaped her career, style, and legacyArt has long bee...

New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from the Middle Ages. In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tape...

A gorgeously produced monograph on Arams exquisite conflations of abstraction and decoration This volume brings together a group of new paintings,...

Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about? If yes, this new book series...

A first of its kind exploration of early modern European culinary history.Staging the Table in Europe represents the first book-length study of six...

In this book, Douglas Biow analyzes Vasari's Lives of the Artists - often considered the first great work of art history in the modern era - from a...

Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabil...

This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A grou...

2023 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies Finalist, 2024 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art AssociationHow Lati...

In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s....

This book presents a new approach to the relationship between traditional pictorial arts and the theatre in Renaissance England. Demonstrating the ...

Studies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient s...

The striving for a royal crown, the ennobling of a clever financial policy, or the immortalizing of glorious victoriesall of this is reflected in t...

This volume examines the painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture produced in nine important court cities of Italy during the course ...

Street corners, guild halls, government offices, and confraternity centers contained paintings that made the city of Florence a visual jewel at pre...

Foregrounds the importance of landscape within twenty-first-century Indigenous artA distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerg...

The first comprehensive look at the nearly seven-decades-long career of contemporary Mexican American artist Virginia Jaramillo Over the course of ...