Art History

This is the third of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual c...

The remarkable story of the stylistic, cultural, and technical innovations that drove the surge of comics, caricature, and other print media in 19t...

In 1967, sex between consenting men in England and Wales was finally decriminalised - an entire century after the death penalty was abolished for s...

This book is a full-color catalogue raisonne interprets the distinctive furniture made by John Shearer, one of the most accomplished and intriguing...

Robin Veder''s The Living Line is a radical reconceptualization of the development of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American moderni...

A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.Three great revolu...

A national treasure is celebrated in this landmark publication. The Birds of America is a monumental classic, but it has never been explored like...

With more than 26,000 works, the Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. collection of photographs is the largest single group of artworks in any medium at the J. P...

Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, ...

The odore Rousseau (1812-1867), arguably the most important French landscape artist of the mid-nineteenth century and a leader of the so-called Bar...

The Cleghorn Collection reproduces more than 200 of the drawings from the Cleghorn Collection in colour, for the first time. These include drawings...

Robin Veder''s The Living Line is a radical reconceptualization of the development of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American moderni...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (18521934), the father of modern neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, was an exceptional artist. He devoted his life to the an...

In 1921/22 Édouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel. Four large-format pictures show exh...

With colour reproductions of his designs and extracts from his poetry and prose, a biography of William Morris, looking at the man himself, his sto...

From the visually seductive E-Type Jaguar to Giles Gilbert Scott's iconic red telephone boxes, British design is distinguished by a combination of ...

The radical changes wrought by the rise of the salon system in nineteenth-century Europe provoked an interesting response from painters in the Amer...

Focusing specifically on portraiture as a genre, this volume challenges scholarly assumptions that regard interior spaces as uniquely feminine. Con...

Known as the Audubon of Botany, Philadelphia, Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (18601940) was a gifted artist whose stunning watercolors comprise a ...

Few American artists have captured painters imaginations with the gripping force of Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917). The brooding spirituality of...

Once considered an outsider artist, after her show at the Guggenheim Museum was seen by more than half-a-mil-lion visitors, Hilma af Klint firmly e...