Art History

In this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking into account a wide...

What happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and others) in Greek and Roman antiquity? Creative Liv...

Greek artists and architects were important social agents who played significant roles in the social, cultural, and economic life of the ancient Gr...

The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performan...

The popularity of the comic performers of late-Georgian and Regency England and their frequent depiction in portraits, caricatures and prints is be...

The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of bel...

Throughout her extensive career, Russian conceptual artist Irina Nakhova has frequently pushed the limits of what constitutes art and how we experi...

The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757): The Queen of Pastel is the first extensive biographical narrative in English of Rosalba Carriera...

In Latinx Art Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and a...

Why Science Needs Art explores the complex relationship between these seemingly polarised fields. Reflecting on a time when art and science were co...

This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of late antiquity (c. 2001000), across cultures and regions reaching...

This exquisite collection of paintings illustrates just how marvelously the Pre- Raphaelites' focus on the natural world intersected with the Victo...

At the end of the Middle Ages, a group of hatmakers from the Low Countries migrated across the North Sea to London. These men brought with them new...

This calendar showcases a beautiful selection of artworks from the extensive collection at the National Galleries of Scotland, one of the finest in...

Produced in partnership with The National Gallery, this exquisite mini wall calendar will take you on a journey through the most significant artwor...

An investigation of the depiction of the story of Theophilus in both its original texts, and images. The legend of Theophilus stages an iconic med...

A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art marketIn The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cult...

Since the 1960s, artists have questioned the traditional idea of opposition between art and nature. They have incorporated animals and plants as co...

An eminent literary biographer and critic shows how poetry enriched the art of two representative English Romantic paintersIn Visionary and Dreamer...

An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the artsHorace Walpole (17171797) was a collector...

An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized partsChinese workers in the t...