Art Styles Not Defined by Date

The Northwest Coast totem pole captivates the imagination. From the first descriptions of these tall carved monuments, totem poles have become cent...

An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of arts connection wi...

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

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...

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

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...

Teaches crafters how to make and use a gorgeous material for extra enjoyment in knitting, crocheting, and weaving: paper yarn. Explore Japanes...

An exploration of southern Chinas ceramic industry and its links to Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, and beyond via the maritime trade   Beautifully i...

Discover the blacksmithing techniques used to make 10 traditional Japanese objects with insights from the artisans and rare glimpses inside their w...

Art in Hong Kong is a fascinating analysis of the history, current status and possible future of Hong Kong as an international art hub, written by ...

This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidenc...

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürers depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outs...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in No...

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

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

Explores some of the dynamic, forward-facing artistic creations of Indigenous FuturismThe growing field of Indigenous Futurism eludes easy categori...

Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case i...

What is design in modern China? And what are the ecological stakes in understanding how modern Chinese design encourages us to see? This book takes...

The Kisokaid route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the countrys then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be inst...

The first publication to celebrate the British Museums rich collection of these technically sophisticated artworks created as part of Japanese cult...

In this multidisciplinary book, Sanda Iliescu articulates a rich, multi-faceted approach to the aesthetic experience. Through in-depth discussions ...

The book investigates the aesthetic theology embedded in the Franciscan artistic tradition. The novelty of the approach is in applying concepts gle...

Along the River During the Qingming Festival is a renowned Chinese painting that captures the daily life of the Northern Song Dynasty. This artwork...

The book portrays the journey of artist Xie Shan, who dedicated his life to painting despite suffering from cornea thinning (keratoconus), auditory...

This volume explores the relationship between aesthetics and traditional multimodal communication to show how all semiotic resources, not just thos...

This volume explores the relationship between aesthetics and traditional multimodal communication to show how all semiotic resources, not just thos...

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

Despite the censorship of dissident material during the decade between the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941,...

This book unfolds a history of American basketry, from its origins in Native American, immigrant, and slave communities to its contemporary presenc...

First published in 1935, this book was intended to provide westerners with a more definite and comprehensive understanding of Chinese Art and its a...

The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange culturally, politically, and artistically across Eurasia.The wide-ranging ...

This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other ...

From Edouard Manets portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Goghs meticulous copies of the Hiroshige p...

Creative visions of Arctic geography from Indigenous perspectives_x000D_ _x000D_ Grounded in the spatiality of Indigenous existence, Circumpolar Co...