Art Styles Not Defined by Date

Thai national artist Thawan Duchanee has spent his life creating art that deeply reflects Buddhist philosophy. He is internationally renowned, and ...

With hundreds of vivid and detailed color photographs and an easy narrative style enlivened by historical vignettes and images, the authors bring o...

Archaeologists seldom study ancient art, even though art is fundamental to the human experience. The Archaeology of Art in the American Southwest a...

Renowned photographer Jonathan M. Singer presents his striking black-and-white images of Chinese ornamental rocks from a leading collection. Shape...

The Caribbean has been traditionally associated with externally devised mappings and categories, thus appearing as a passive entity to be consumed ...

The first book-length English-language study focusing on the early modern export of Chinese silk to New Spain from the sixteenth to the seventeenth...

The social and economic rise of the chungin class (middle people who ranked between the yangban aristocracy and commoners) during the late Chosn pe...

In early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among Chinas educated elites began to use touch...

The history of modern design and architecture has seen many attempts to embrace and merge different art forms, and to bring art into the framing of...

No one captures the graces and idiosyncrasies of cats quite like the painters, printmakers, and haiku masters of Japan. From the Edo to the Showa p...

Utagawa Hiroshige (17971858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning pictures of the floating world, ukiyo-e ...

A richly illustrated book showcasing the costumes and ritual equipment obtained from Shamans in Mongolia and Siberia in the 1930s by two legendary ...

From rock art to Australian modernism, from bark paintings to the Heidelberg School, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art provides a wide-rang...

Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our spec...

Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 16501850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full rang...

An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of Frances Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beaut...

Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration examines the role of sketches, drawings and other artworks in our understanding of human cult...

Borderland Mujeres, a collaborative, bilingual conversation in poetry and art, depicts the multifaceted experiences of women living in the borderla...

Over the course of five decades, Professor Sir Nasser David Khalili has assembled eight of the worlds most important collections of art. Together t...

Teddy bears, toys and fruit populate Imais intimate and imaginary compositions In The Scene, Japanese painter Ulala Imai (born 1982) draws refere...

Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, fr...

William Elliot Griffis (1843 1928) graduated from Rutgers College in 1869 and taught four years in Fukui and Tokyo. After his return to the United...

Art and science they may seem like opposites, but throughout history there have been visionaries who have brought together these contrasting subje...

Focusing on artwork by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates and reveals how abstract painting, especially th...

The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes ...

Raised by his grandparents in the tiny village of Metlakatla, Alaska, David A. Boxley left a secure teaching job in his hometown to pursue an uncha...

Addressing the previous lack of a comprehensive English-language study of Qing painting, art historian Claudia Browns account ranges from the tumul...

Compelling and troubling, colorful and dark, black figures served as the quintessential image of difference in nineteenth-century European art; the...

Utagawa Hiroshige (17971858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning pictures of the floating world, ukiyo-e ...

Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in Chinas calligraphic canon. Apparently marking the burial of a crane,...

Among Southeast Alaskas best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. ...

Mount Fuji has long been a centerpiece of Japanese cultural imagination, and nothing captures this with more virtuosity than the landmark woodblock...

The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and othe...

This multidisciplinary volume follows on the success of Choctaw-Apache Foodways and includes several selections, including history, anthropology, f...