Art History

The 18th century was the age of the connoisseur. It was also an era of an expanding global consciousness born of accelerating trade and imperial co...

More than 600 archival color and black-and-white photos take readers inside the magnificent Hotel des Artistes on Manhattan's West Side. This i...

This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his st...

Modern Painting in Egypt is an invitation to travel through the Egyptian art scene of the 20th century, highlighting several major painters, as wel...

Swiss surrealist artist HR Giger (19402014) achieved international fame in 1979 for designing the fantastic creatures and eerie environments that t...

Mysterious and mathematical at once, the magical visual world of Dutch artist M.C. Escher (18981972) has captivated scientists and scholars and mad...

Looted Art & Restitution relates the history of the trade, looting and restitution of works of art from the Netherlands before, during and afte...

The art of Gerard Collins resists categorisation. Over a 50-year career, Collinss conceptual imagination and dizzying array of influences has produ...

Exclusive Memory: A Perceptual History of the Future is a compendium of descriptive, speculative prose and text-images by the Governor Generals Awa...

An award-winning study of the ancient world, now back in printEarly China is best known for the dazzling material artifacts it has left behind. The...

Offering an alternative mode of visual cultural analysis to the prevalent discursive model, this book proposes to situate analysis of Image within ...

To this day Charles Darwins evolutionary theory of the survival of the fittest has been visualized with the universal model of a tree of life. But ...

A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022A landmark volume presenting the history of Indian art across the subcontinent and South Asia from the late ...

Exploring the career and legacy of the artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, whose sculptural figures embody her uncompromising sovereignty over her work...