Art History

The significant influence of the periodical Signature on fine art has long been overlooked. While few people nowadays will have read it, no journal...

A new way of appreciating art that puts the artwork front and centre, brought to us by one of the freshest and most exciting voices in cultural cri...

Jewish cemeteries are unusual places for me. When I started to photograph them I was reading the novel written by Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost ...

Why did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, or Rembrandt obsess over painting his own image? What's the secret behind the Terracotta Army, or An...

Austin artist David Everett was born and raised in Texas, and his work reflects an organic and wholly original Lone Star State ethos. His stunning ...

Japanese screens (byobu) are made of wooden lattices with two to twelve panels, covered with a canvas of paper or fabric. Artists, embracing the dy...

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Voices of the GameCurt Smith is the voice of authority on baseball broadcasting. USA Today#1 New Release in Photography, Baseball Statistics, Photo...

  From colorful threads found on the floor of an ancient Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that fueled the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thr...

This timely study of Winslow Homer highlights his imagery of the Atlantic world and reveals themes of racial, political, and natural conflict acros...

Everybody is a designer! But why? Why do we color, organize, and form the world around us - and why do we call that a profession? In this book, Tho...

Looking Again is as much about photography as it is about the specific photographs reproduced within it. It is designed to provide the reader wit...

From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherFor the past 140 years, Germany ha...

In this important and timely publication, top international scholars present current research and developments about the art, archaeology, and hist...

When a decades-long court battle resulted in her familys freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of Amer...

This anthology, the first of its kind, presents thirty-two texts on contemporary prints and printmaking written from the mid-1980s to the present b...

A historic publishing event! For the first time ever, all 3,022 paintings from the world's most popular museum are collected into a striking, slipc...

A celebration of artworks featuring books and readers from throughout history, for the delight of art lovers and bibliophiles As every book tells a...

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Weste...

Since the first dissections of corpses, anatomy and art have always been connected. From Leonardo da Vincis drawings to Francis Bacons naked figure...

The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from Indias Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth centu...