Art Styles Not Defined by Date

The Encyclopedia of East Asian Design is the first comprehensive publication to focus on East Asian design and its histories. Although definition...

In this book, author Martin Munro offers a new path into Caribbean studies based on sound. He argues that to understand and begin to transform the ...

Explanations in Iconography: Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning is a significant contribution to archaeology and to- iconography stud...

This illuminating exhibition catalogue interrogates the entanglement of the Islamic world with European visual culture during the medieval period a...

This latest philosophical text by John Sallis is inspired by the work of contemporary Chinese painter Cao Jun. It carries out a series of philosoph...

Huichol Indian yarn paintings are one of the world's great indigenous arts, sold around the world and advertised as authentic records of dreams an...

In Maya theology, everything from humans and crops to gods and the world itself passes through endless cycles of birth, maturation, dissolution, de...

La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of im...

No contemporary artist has succeeded so thoroughly in blending classical Chinese art and modern abstract art as Cao Jun, who has exhibited widely i...

Come and take a look inside The Wonderful World of Madge Gill, Outsider Artist and Visionary. Born in Victorian London and orphaned at only nine ye...

In 1573, 712 bales of Chinese silk arrived in New Spain in the cargos of two Manila galleons. The emergence and the subsequent rapid development of...

Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine is a survey of domestic government and party printed propaganda in revolutionary Ukraine. It is the first accou...

In this beautifully illustrated overview, Renée Worringer provides a clear and comprehensive account of the longevity, pragmatism, and flexibility ...

This publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japans period of seclusion, to its age of modernization...

Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ Award Honourable Mention, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Prose Illustrated) Arctic/Amazon: Networks o...

Islamic Art and Visual Culture is a collection of primary sources in translation accompanied by clear and concise introductory essays that provide ...

This book examines the cultural heritage of Inner Eurasia (Central Asia) through the arts, from prehistoric times to the ancient and medieval golde...

With a ghostly torch passed down from Lafcadio Hearn, Davisson, accomplished author, translator, and folklorist delves into the depths of Japanese ...