Art History

A fresh look at the British Museums celebrated and extensive ancient Egyptian collection from across three thousand yearsPharaoh: King of Ancient E...

The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the worldthe first indicatio...

'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'.This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from acros...

Published on the opening of a dazzling exhibition at the Barber Institute, this volume displays a treasure trove of ancient Egyptian artefacts from...

The monograph is the first exhaustive publication of nine shelters with rock paintings documented by the Czechoslovak expedition in Lower Nubia in ...

This revised edition is an accumulation of two decades of research and fieldwork by the authors, and presents a comprehensive account of the little...

Hokusai: the blue, foam-crested wave rearing above Mount Fuji; the celebrated volcano idealized and reinventedby the artist in every nuance of view...

This pack contains 300 high-quality origami sheets printed with colorful and traditional Japanese designs.These vibrant origami papers were develop...

Qu Leilei now stands as a technically accomplished master, capable of handling brush and ink with the utmost competency and photographic-like quali...

These are exciting times for Japanese bamboo art. May 2017 saw the opening of Japan House Sao Paulo, whose inaugural exhibition 'Bamboo: The Materi...

Surimono poetry prints are among the finest examples of Japanese woodblock printmaking of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Consi...

Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly used their reac...

Although the artist Sadequain was commonly regarded as a modernist, the author, who is well known as an art critic and connoisseur, suggests that h...

In this book, leading art experts, art historians, and critics review the life, career, and artistic development of New York based Chinese artist Z...

Made in the Americas reveals the largely overlooked history of the profound influence of Asia on the arts of the colonial Americas. Beginning in th...

This memoir of fictional Chinese artist, Little Winter, is written for her American daughter. It takes the story of Communist China beyond the deat...

The first years of the twenty-first century have witnessed an impressive re-evaluation of Islamic art and archaeology. However, while museums and g...

Sakai Hitsu was one of the most prominent painters of late 18th- and early 19th-century Japan, known for technical bravura, arresting compositions,...

This beautifully illustrated catalogue showcases 126 Spanish and Portuguese artworks from the 17th and 18th centuries, all highlights from the dazz...