Art Styles Not Defined by Date

Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 15001900 brings women's engagements with art into a pan-Asian dialogue with essays that examine women as artists,...

This book examines the development of national emblems, photographic portraiture, oil painting, world expositions, modern spaces for art exhibition...

In Indians in Color, noted cultural critic Norman K. Denzin addresses the acute differences in the treatment of artwork about Native America create...

This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of Chinas socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and gl...

In this highly original study, Vanessa Russ examines the gradual invention of Aboriginal art within the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This proces...

This visually stunning and technically detailed book is an in-depth analysis of the materials and techniques used on thirty eight of the V&A's ...

In this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a str...

Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focus...

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schieles work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artists visual b...

Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia Colón Mendoza investigates how and why the ...

This edited volume maps dialogues between science and technology studies research on the arts and the emerging field of artistic research. The main...

When the body is foregrounded in artwork as in much contemporary performance, sculptural installation and video work so is gendered and sexualise...

Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask...

Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art addresses how researchers can challenge stereotypical notions of Islam and Islamic art while avoiding the c...

This book tells the story of the Del Riccio family in Florence in the early modern period, investigating the cultural mediations fostered by the fa...

First Published in 2002, Visual Words provides a unique and interdisciplinary evaluation of the relationship between images and words in this perio...

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

This was first published in 2000: A study of John Ruskin's engagement with art and architecture as a critic, a patron and a teacher. It offers insi...

At the age of six, Hokusai was said to have painted his first picture, and a year after his death aged 89, his designs for illustrated books were p...

Written by anthropologist Dianne Johnson, Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia has been in demand since its publication in 1998. It is a record of t...

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it was fashionable to collect 'curios', objects so named because they aroused 'curiosity'. Imaginatively ...