Art History

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 ...

Explore Vietnams rich literary and graphic design history. Vietnam has a strong literary culture that dates back to Confucian influence and has rem...

Fifty years after its debut, the exhibition Abstract Design in American Quilts is remembered as a pivotal moment in the intersecting histories of a...

With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the la...

Chinese ink painters of the Republican period (19111949) creatively engaged with a range of art forms in addition to ink, such as oil painting, dra...

In the age of European expansion, pearls became potent symbols of imperial supremacy. Pearls for the Crown demonstrates how European art legitimate...

'Hugely entertaining history' - MojoBetween the late '60s and early '80s, design house Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic and ubiquitous alb...

Jacopo de Barbaris View of Venice, a woodcut first printed in the year 1500, presents a birds-eye portrait of Venice at its peak as an internationa...

A complete illustrated guide of style tribes and fashion subculture from 1900s-2020s Stylepedia uncovers global styles, exploring their origins, d...

¿Quién viene después del sujeto?, se preguntaba Jean-Luc Nancy a fines de los años ochenta, anticipándose al debate contemporáneo. Con sus ribetes ...

Jacopo de Barbaris View of Venice, a woodcut first printed in the year 1500, presents a birds-eye portrait of Venice at its peak as an internationa...

'Este fascinante libro de Alicia Ríos se inscribe en la línea de estudios post-hegemónicos que exploran la reformulación del paradigma de la libera...

The Kisokaid route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the countrys then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be inst...

This ground-breaking book explores the revolution thats transformed New Zealand museums in recent decades, and is influencing how museums worldwide...

More than any other secular story of the Middle Ages, the tale of Tristan and Isolde fascinated its audience. Adaptations in poetry, prose, and dra...

An extraordinary publication with new research and writing on world renowned Japanese multi-media artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist, Yo...

This volume examines Saint Georges intertwined traditions in the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia, demonstrating how...

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifact...