Art History

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, sig...

This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this art form and our understandin...

Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe.Chapters present a ...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

This book reclaims Hegels notion of the end of artor, more precisely, of arts past characternot just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as...

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960sfrom minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-spe...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010. Designing the Modern Interior reveals how the design of the inside spaces of our homes and public buildi...

Before the tragedy of the Holocaust, many of the leading art and antiques dealers across Europe were Jewish, establishing dynamic cross-Channel, in...

In this book, Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY...

Updated documentation of The Theater of Refusal on the exhibition's 30th anniversary In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gai...

Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2022 Traditionally associated with rural ways of life in England, often hand...

Exploring the zodiac has never been so fun! This delightful set of twelve lushly colorful notecards by artist Chris Uphues renders the zodiac in in...

Visions of modernity Architect, artist, designer, and visionary, Frederick Kiesler was one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth centur...

In the period 1450 to 1650 in Europe, hair was braided, curled, shaped, cut, colored, covered, decorated, supplemented, removed, and reused in magi...

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century Anti-Aesthetic movement an...

Through a curated collection of key Jain paintings, this volume offers a glimpse into the way people lived in western India during the medieval tim...

How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist perio...

Modernist painter, socialist realist, Holocaust survivor, and student of the Parisian Avant Garde, Jewish-Polish artist Henryk Streng was extraordi...

This book presents innovative analysis of emergent visual trends in Japan from the late 1960s to the present day. Adopting a thematic approach, thi...

Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of soc...

Antonio Canova invented a new genre with his Ideal Heads. They were intended as gifts for close friends and persons he admired as an expression of ...

Over the last century, there has been a revolution in self-presentation and social attitudes towards hair. Developments in mass manufacturing, adva...

The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair. Hair dominated fashion as never before or since, with more men and women than ever donnin...

The Middle Ages were a time of great innovation, artistic vigor, and cultural richness. Appearances mattered a great deal during this vibrant era a...

19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywhere when you start to look, from the abundant locks of the pre-Raphaelites to the myriad obje...

Design and Agency brings together leading international design scholars and practitioners to address the concept of agency in relation to objects, ...

Whether you are about to embark on a journey to a distant land or close to home, this journal and pen set is the perfect journaling companion for y...

With three ruled 64-page notebooks, this notebook set gives you plenty of room to jot down notes, travel plans, and ideas for adventures. 3 UNIQUE...

World is Africa brings together more than 30 important texts by Eddie Chambers, who for several decades has been an original and a critical voice w...

While the history of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the great American stories of the twen...

Named a Best Gift Book by InStyle Nathalie Lété is the rare artist whose work is so distinctive and widely appealing that she has become a global b...

J. A. Green (18731905) was one of the most prolific and accomplished indigenous photographers to be active in West Africa. This beautiful book cele...

An exquisite fine art edition of St John's Gospel, illuminated by artist-calligrapher Jane Sullivan. Inspired by Celtic art and the beautiful illum...

Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the changing material culture in Europe through the stories of a basket, a carpet, ...

It was simple furniture ... and we were makers of it.In 1931, the English designer Gerald Summers and his partner Marjorie Butcher opened their bus...

This book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinemas ...

The 1970s is often considered the period that design forgot. In Private sets out to challenge this view, offering a cultural history of domestic in...

The art of Paule Vézelay (1892-1984), celebrated in this groundbreaking publication, is remarkable in its breadth. Over her long career she created...

This edited volume explores the notion of artifice in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries aroun...

Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and 1980s. From collaged punch cards...

Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and 1980s. From collaged punch cards...

The debate about the return of cultural assets to former colonial territories is highly topical and at the same time much older than most assume. ...

In this book, Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir uncovers the crucial role of esotericism in the art of the Vienna Actionistsa group of Austrian neo-avant-gard...

This volume explores the Indian artist, K. Venkatappas (18861965) life, his works and the political and cultural contexts that influenced and inspi...

Gary Deirmendjian is a compelling and original voice in the realm of contemporary art. A Prevailing Sense of Disquiet is a visually rich and multi-...

This third collection of SAO illustrations highlights events from Volumes 16 through 22 of the main story, as well as Volumes 1 through 3 of Sword ...