Art History

Audio Erotica is a perfectly pitched visual anthem to home audio entertainment. Using sales brochures from the 1950-1980s, a symphony of graphic no...

Harness the beauty of the natural world to create unique textile art pieces. Learn how to create beautiful textile art inspired by details in natur...

Internationally renowned, highly educated and very well connected, Angelica Kauffman (17411807) led a brilliant career as a pioneering history pain...

Featuring more than 300 magnificent National Geographic images of all 50 states--and inspiring words from luminaries across the country--this colle...

This handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engag...

For too long, the centre of the Renaissance has been considered to be Rome and the art produced in, or inspired by it. This collection of essays de...

This captivating biography brings Lucas Cranach the Elder into the spotlight for the twenty-first century. The illuminating narrative unveils an ar...

In Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Produc...

The earliest painting by Rembrandt whose owner is documented depicts the prophet Balaam, on his way to blessing Israel. The man who bought it was a...

Francis Bacons portrait of his first partner Peter Lacy is somehow simultaneously attractive and repulsive. The monumental portrait dating from 196...

The Minjian Avant-Garde studies how experimental artists in China mixed with, brought changes to, and let themselves be transformed by minjian, the...

The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarchs legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portra...

The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarchs legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portra...

Fashion is a subject that has long been marginalized in art history and in museums. And yet, one of the most well-known artists in the twentieth ce...

Learn about key concepts behind the world's most incredible buildings in The Architecture Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book ...

We all look to our past to define our present, but we dont always realize that our view of the past is shaped by subsequent events. Its easy to for...

The revered tradition of botanical illustration dates back to the Renaissance. It emerged from the desire to catalog nature in its unpredictable sp...

Fantasy art, that colorful blend of myth, muscle and sexy maidens, took off in 1923 with the launch of Weird Tales magazine, was reinvigorated in t...

This volume explores the power of matter and materials in the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium. Recent attention to matter as dynamic ...