Art History

The first place the twenty-year-old Yan Pei-Ming visited in France in 1980 was Ornans, the birthplace of the French Realist Gustave Courbet. Thirty...

In the Company of Artists is the first major study of Skowhegans history, philosophy and impact. By uncovering narratives on Skowhegan and providin...

Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the authors grief surrounding his mothers death. T...

Celebrates Indigenous renewal through ceremony, understanding the impact of the past and the possibilities for the futureThe practice of ceremony o...

Celebrates Indigenous renewal through ceremony, understanding the impact of the past and the possibilities for the futureThe practice of ceremony o...

The social and economic rise of the chungin class (middle people who ranked between the yangban aristocracy and commoners) during the late Chosn pe...

Illuminates how the city has shaped contemporary artistic practice in Southeast AsiaIn The City in Time, Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of under...

For the first time in English, this lavishly illustrated catalogue presents the collection of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century French paintings in...

In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated with an introduction by Stefano ...

An Encounter Between Art and the Technosphere Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day. How is this regist...

The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one ...

From a leading art historian of Renaissance Italy, a compelling account of the artistic and cultural impact of the sack of sixteenth-century RomeIn...

Manhattan Masters shows the most beautiful Dutch Masters from the Golden Age in The Frick Collection, New York. The book elaborates the creation of...

This book sheds new light on Delft pottery from the 17th and 18th centuries. During this period, the Delft pottery industry took off, under the str...

Comics have always embraced a diversity of formats, existing in complex relationships to other media, and been dynamic in their response to new tec...

Since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Painting...

Tom Thomson is the undisputed master of the oil sketch. A towering figure in the history of Canadian art after just five years of professional prac...

Otto Jahn und Adolf Michaelis korrspondierten zwischen 1848 und 1869 regelmäßig. Die Briefe bilden den wissenschaftlichen Werdegang des späteren Pr...

The Book of Miracles first surfaced only a few years ago and is one of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The near-c...

Whether youre thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is the book to che...

In der Geschichte des geistlichen Liedes nehmen marianische Hymnen und Sequenzen eine zentrale Stellung ein. Neben die lateinische Dichtung, die li...