Art History

When you revisit a place that matters to you for the first time in a long time it is a rich, spiritual experience, but if you then revisit such a p...

Winner, Design Edge Regional Design AwardIn October 2001, paint was spilled on the streets of Montreal. A stark, primitive bike symbol, looking sus...

In this investigative tour de force, now available in a new format edition, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring t...

Henry Moores humanist sculpture changed the course of art in the twentieth-century and raised the status of British sculpture internationally. Frie...

This volume focuses on the migration and acculturation of images in Jewish culture and how that reflects intercultural exchange. Gender aspects of ...

With more than 300,000 copies sold worldwide in 15 languages, this newly revised and updated edition of 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die ...

The Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin has carried out its task of promoting the arts in Germany since the year it was founded in 1696...

With their overwhelming wealth of forms, prints of designs of historic ornaments are a source of boundless inspiration for graphic artists and desi...

American Civil Warera art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have...

The first book to celebrate the beautiful and provocative ways artists have represented, scrutinized and utilized the body over centuries.Body of A...

Internationally renowned and a crucial classroom text, The Arts of China has been revised and expanded by the late Michael Sullivan, with Shelagh V...

Painting without color has long held a fascination for artists. In this striking and original book, the authors explore how and why artists from th...

Hans Holbein the Younger is best known for his work in Henry VIIIs England, where he painted portraits and designed decorative objects for courtly ...

The name of the architect Victor Baltard is inseparable from the Halles Centrales of Paris, the complex of iron-and-glass pavilions built between 1...

Starting with Brunelleschis invention of perspective and Galileos invention of the telescopetwo inaugural moments in the history of vision, from tw...

Few works of art better illustrate the splendor of eleventh-century painting than the manuscript often referred to as the precious gospels of Bisho...

In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected elitist media and im...

Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This ...

This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of experimental science a...

In The Urban Scene, Carmenita Higginbotham offers a significant and innovative reassessment of the ways in which race is deployed and read in inter...

The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around Londo...

This book examines the heretofore unsuspected complexity of Lorenzo Ghiberti''''s sculpted representations of Old Testament narratives in his Gates...

The Artangel Trust has been credited with providing artists with all the money and logistics they need to create one-off dream projects. An indepen...