Art History

The moment to savor [Mary Sully]. . . has arrived. New York TimesDakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth...

Forty years after Chinas tumultuous Cultural Revolution, this book revisits the visual and performing arts of the period the paintings, propaganda...

The Davis Museums groundbreaking curatorial project, Art__Latin__America: Against the Survey, reconsiders conventional frameworks for understanding...

Mohawk Rebel is an in-depth exploration of one of North America's most important Indigenous artists. Claire Raymond's compelling and well-researche...

The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (190754) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failin...

The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (18621918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal th...

Mohawk Rebel is an in-depth exploration of one of North America's most important Indigenous artists. Claire Raymond's compelling and well-researche...

A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the presentThis authoritative reference work examines literary and artisti...

The prodigy poet, playwright, architect, painter, and humanist savant Leon Battista Alberti emerged in 1435 with De pictura ['On Painting'], the mo...

The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (18621918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal th...

Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (19071954). Her unmis...

François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ...

A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles  Underlying every great city is a rich ...

Paul Clemen schuf als Professor für Kunstgeschichte in Bonn (19021936) das Kunsthistorische Institut, indem er eine reiche Bibliothek und Sammlunge...

hier in diesem Haus wird mancher sehend für ein ganzes Leben, schrieb Rainer Maria Rilke 1902 über die Kunsthalle Bremen. Im Laufe seiner inzwisch...

Unlike many other handicrafts in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, which have long cultural and historical trajectories, Oaxacan woodcarving began in th...

Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (19071954). Her unmis...

An illuminating corrective to the limiting perspective of the Pueblo people put forth by the Taos Society of Artists Drawn to the region in pursu...

In the Anatomy lessons that were painted for the Surgeons Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection...

Poised at the start of the 21st century, we can see clearly that the previous century was marked by momentous changes in the field of design. Aesth...