Art History

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

This catalogue provides a spectacular overview of painting on the theme of football in European artistic modernism. Here, painting gets to the bott...

This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of Chinas socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and gl...

Evidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of uns...

In 1874 the first Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris, shocking the art world with a radical new style of painting. Capturing contemporary sub...

The first comprehensive monograph on the work of Brazilian painter Lucas Arruda elucidates the artists intricate, meditative compositions.Arruda ha...

Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and o...

John Cassadays gorgeously dynamic compositions are known the world over, both in and out of the comic book market.Now, for the first time ever, all...

Der Band verbindet aktuelle Diskurse um nichtmenschliche oder mehr-als-menschliche Akteure in ästhetischen Prozessen mit der derzeit virulenten Deb...

Joséphine Bonaparte, future consort of Napoléon; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals,...

This book explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Pre-Columbian art dating to the fifteenth century, showing how the manu...

Past Forward highlights Gilcrease Museums unique collection, which gathers together more than three millennia of Native American art. The richly il...

The work of mid-twentieth century art theorist Anton Ehrenzweig is explored in this original and timely study. An analysis of the dynamic and invig...

This book presents the work of Ceija Stojka (1933 2013), an Austrian Romni writer, painter, activist, and musician, and survivor of the Holocaust. ...

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones ca...

David Drake is recognized as one of the United States most accomplished nineteenth-century potters. Yet, though his potsmany inscribed with origina...

In recent years, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the history of museums, academies and major exhibitions. There has been, however, ...

Sonic Engagement examines the relationship between community engaged participatory arts and the cultural turn towards audio, sound, and listening t...