Art History

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unreco...

This visual bonanza shines the spotlight on 750 striking advertising posters for the musicals and plays of Broadways golden age and shares untold b...

An exploration of southern Chinas ceramic industry and its links to Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, and beyond via the maritime trade   Beautifully i...

Discover the blacksmithing techniques used to make 10 traditional Japanese objects with insights from the artisans and rare glimpses inside their w...

The Art of Destiny, Volume 3 is a celebration of the stunning, dynamic visual style beloved by Destiny fans. Featuring hundreds of pieces of concep...

His works have prompted a New York Times bestseller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor numbers at art institutions...

For centuries, interest in Shakespeare's Hamlet has prioritised its brooding, melancholy prince. Yet, over time, the enigmatic Ophelia, his tragic ...

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. Wit...

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. Wit...

In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigo...

His works have prompted a New York Times bestseller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor numbers at art institutions...

Art in Hong Kong is a fascinating analysis of the history, current status and possible future of Hong Kong as an international art hub, written by ...

A woman once rang me up and said, Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles, you have given such a striking illustr...

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. Wit...

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art is the first English-language academic book that explores the intersections of queer culture and contemporary Chines...

Using five case studies of contemporary art, this book uses ideas of systems and dispersion to understand identity and experience in late capitalis...

This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated co...

Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time whe...

This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth-century writer and mathema...

This book explores stage conjuring during its golden age, from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmati...

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual off...

This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp justice or war or...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and con...

The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Pea...

The chapters in this volume explore the relationship between music and art in Italy across the long sixteenth century, considering an era when musi...

Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, disability and Crip theory...

This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidenc...

This book considers the sculpture of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicotts (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding tr...

This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined an...

This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic intervention...

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (195053), this book shows the dynam...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürers depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outs...

Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epi...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Providing interdisciplinary and international ...

This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in No...