Art History

A celebration of the beauty of the Hebrew aleph-bet from sacred scrolls to graffiti.  The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter is unique: there are many art...

'Exhilarating and fascinating' KATY HESSEL | 'Rich and detailed' CHLOË ASHBY | 'Enlightening' TABISH KHAN | 'Sheds light on an uncharted area of ar...

Two volume set The Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established th...

With a vast selection of works from the last two decades and Polaroids of the artist's studio, this mid-career catalog provides unique perspective ...

'Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it m...

Reimagining the iconography and the eroticization of Blackness in Brazil Brazilian artist Antonio Obá (born 1983) works across painting, sculpture...

How does light transform the objects it shines upon? What are the consequences of such meta- morphoses on architectural thought? Book of Hours seek...

Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation, in both the Third Reich and occupied territories. After the war, the...

Honorable Mention for the 2024 James B. Palais Prize for English-Language Scholarly books published on Korea from the Association for Asian Studies...

Shortlisted for the 2022 ASAP Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for the Study of Arts of the PresentShowcases the exceptionally diverse phot...

Ronald Lockett (1965-1998) stands out among southern artists in the late twentieth century. Raised in the African American industrial city of Besse...

The turn of the eighteenth century was a period of transition in France, a time when new but contested concepts of modernity emerged in virtually e...

Is there anything more mysterious than a piece of fabric covering something? Since the author of this book started noticing classical images with i...

Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France is the first major study of Salon caricature, a kind of graphic art criticism in wh...

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The essays collected here continue the Journal's w...