Art History

Collage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis an...

Collage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis an...

In the fully rewritten third edition of this classic text, Nicholas Mirzoeff introduces visual culture as visual activism, or activating the visibl...

More than a quarter of a century ago, critic and author Michael Ennis observed that There is no comprehensive work on Texas art; there has never be...

At age thirteen, most boys are finding trouble in all its infinite forms. In 1939, thirteen-year-old Jon Lippenss worst troubles found him in a pre...

The Sculpture of William Edmondson: Tombstones, Garden Ornaments, and Stonework is the first large-scale museum examination of the artist's career ...

Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the wa...

The Animal Surreal situates Surrealism within the burgeoning field of Animal Studies by examining Surrealist representations of nonhuman animals th...

New essays that illuminate and interpret William Bartrams journey through what would become the southeastern United States William Bartram, author ...

Not since Edward Woods Giants and Dwarfs published in 1868 has the subject been the focus of a scholarly study in English. Treating the topic afres...

Baldwins life and legacy as remembered by a pantheon of artists and writers: from Jamaica Kincaid and Barry Jenkins to Richard Avedon and Alice Nee...

Vincent Van Gogh, even with his mental illness, poverty, isolation, and persistent failure, reflected compassion remarkable for his own life of rej...

New studies on the interaction of various media in ancient Greek art This collection includes twenty-one new essays by leading scholars in the fiel...

Women Art Dealers brings together fascinating case studies of galleries run by women between the 1940s and 1980s. It marks a departure from other w...

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans provides a window into the cultural changes taking place in the United States from the turn of the twentieth c...

Numerous contemporary artists, particularly female artists, have chosen to examine the idealization of the female body. In this crucial book, Emily...

Luca Giordano (Naples, 16341705) was one of Italys most celebrated Baroque painters when he travelled to Florence, where his art was already apprec...

In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early...

First published in 1983, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art provides a lucid account of two divergent tendencies in the study of aesthetics. At th...