Art History

Offering a major contribution to the field of American culture and aesthetics in an interdisciplinary frame, this collection assembles the cutting-...

A timely history of immigration, integration and national identity that reveals the true heritage behind some of the nation’s defining artworks. T...

From one of the world’s leading authorities on ancient Greek art, a groundbreaking account of how Greek images were understood and used by other an...

Drawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challe...

In "Telling Stories", David Kaufmann focuses on Philip Guston's controversial figurative paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s. He looks at the ear...

This book offers a fresh reading of Latin American modernism through the lenses of gender and space. By analysing the contributions of eight contem...

A history of the evolving field of African art.   This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It...

The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw either radical architectural interventions or rethinks of their m...

On the late post-conceptual paintings of the influential artist and educator The Barbados-born, Seattle-based painter Denzil Hurley (1949–2021) wa...

The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and ‘30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. Th...

Twenty-first-century Kandinsky: a reappraisal of the Russian abstractionist’s art, life and thought through the extraordinary collection of the ico...

Positioning Alice Neel as a champion of civil rights, this book explores how her paintings convey her humanist politics and capture the humanity, s...

A monumental, lavishly illustrated book that offers the first global portrait of a complex and definition-defying genre of cultural production.Over...

Cold War Camera explores the visual mediation of the Cold War and illuminates photography’s role in shaping the ways it was prosecuted and experien...

Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and the Arts Book Award Winner of the Borsch-Rast Book Prize & Lectureship An Oxford Alu...

Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections encompasses the geographic regions of Mesopotamia, Syria and ...

The first retrospective on a fascinating protagonist of the 1970s Pattern & Decoration movement, who defied Minimalist orthodoxy with humorous ...

Das wirklichkeitsgetreue, in Bronze gegossene Abbild des Verstorbenen hielt im 15. Jahrhundert Einzug in die italienische Erinnerungs- und Grabkult...

Die Zeit um das Jahr 1000 wird meist als Beginn der Kunstgeschichte in Ostmitteleuropa gesehen: Das Auftreten neuer Fürstendynastien, die über mehr...

Die erheblichen Verluste an antiken und klassizistischen Kunstwerken im Schloss Tegel, verursacht durch deren Abtransport in die Sowjetunion 1945, ...

The New Art Examiner was the only successful art magazine ever to come out of Chicago. It had nearly a three-decade long run, and since its foundin...

Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters examines how energy use in the ceramics-making industry has evolved as a result of technological advancements...

Markgräfin Karoline Luise von Baden (1723-1783), seit 1751 verheiratet mit Markgraf Karl Friedrich von Baden-Durlach, war eine Sammlerin von europä...

Carl Hummel (1821–1907) ist einer der vergessenen Künstler des 19. Jahrhunderts. Über 100 Jahre hinweg lag sein Nachlass im Schlossmuseum Weimar ve...