Art Styles Not Defined by Date

Foreword by Jonathan GreenFor over fifty years, John and Vivian Hewitt visited galleries, artists' studios, and exhibitions in the United States, t...

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

5,000 Years of Chinese Jade is a concise visual survey of art-historically important jade spanning the Neolithic period to the 19th century, offeri...

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...

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 ...

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuikea working in myriad genres across ...

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuikea working in myriad genres across ...

The costumes and ritual equipment presented in this volume were obtained from shamans in Mongolia and Siberia and represent today a unique cultural...

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

The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of read...

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...