Art Styles Not Defined by Date

Comparing the radical aesthetic and social experiments undertaken by two exile intellectuals, Experiments in Exile charts a desire in their work to...

This revelatory book shows how the influential and controversial Empress Dowager Cixi used art and architecture to establish her authority   Empres...

Oriental Lifestyle will take you on a journey that explores astonishing artistic and architectural worlds, captured by a poetic eye. Like an enchan...

Illuminates the rich history of Asian Art from ancient times to the present Asian Art provides students with an accessible introduction to the hist...

One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with deviant male homosexuality by scor...

A unique style of court painting, combining Persian, Indian and European elements, developed in India under the Mughal emperors in the sixteenth an...

Winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits award (African Studies Association)Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects c...

Jaime Fernandes was born in 1899, in a small village, near one of the most unspoiled and rebellious rivers of Portugal, the River Zezere. He grew u...

This book tells the fascinating story of the rhinoceros Miss Clara, the most famous animal of the eighteenth century. It accompanies the fi rst eve...

In an age when so much of our time is spent staring at screens, it is easy to understand why the warmth, intimacy and idiosyncrasies of hand crafts...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival artnarrating war exploits in larg...