Art History

Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteen...

The volume offers an unprecedented reflection on the work of Lucio Fontana, whose art appears to be not so much masculine, volcanic, demiurgic, as ...

Palazzo Vecchio, which towers over piazza della Signoria, at the centre of Florence, is an iconic building and from the Middle Ages to the Medici f...

This is the first anthology to bring transnational feminist theory and criticism together with womens art practices to discuss the connections betw...

In 1752 Charles-Joseph Natoire, then a highly successful painter, assumed the directorship of the prestigious Académie de France in Rome. Twenty-th...

It is Jean Franois Lyotard's political focus that singles him out from his poststructuralist and postmodernist contemporaries. He is invariably 'th...

An interdisciplinary reference source of the critical, cultural and political practices associated with modernismMuch of the literary and cultural ...

The profession of sculpture was transformed during the eighteenth century as the creation and appreciation of art became increasingly associated wi...

It is Jean Franois Lyotard's political focus that singles him out from his poststructuralist and postmodernist contemporaries. He is invariably 'th...

An authoritative assessment of the changing relationship between the Bible and the arts In this unique Companion, 35 scholars, from world-famous t...

Although discredited by seventeenth-century scientists, temperament theory which attributed human moods to the interaction of four distinct bodily...

The first book by Helene Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts. This collection gathers most of Helene Cixous' short texts devoted to contem...

Hodgkin collection here for the first time both in its entirety and in its full maturity, after a lifetime's constant improvement and refinement. ...

'Lotte has told me that she is an insomniac, and at night she lies excitedly thinking of Loch Eribol, which is down-croft from her unslept in sleep...