Art Styles Not Defined by Date

This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the buildings Plateresque façade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed id...

Living through the Covid-19 global pandemic has changed the way that we experience our lives, the way that we relate to one-another, and the way th...

The majority of Africans have refused to accept the Western definition of epilepsy or causes of epilepsy. To this end, they have chosen the traditi...

Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan (1924) was one of the first guides to Japanese illustration, and remains indispensable to this day....

Presenting fresh and thematic interpretations, this book showcases a collection of the most visually captivating, socially intriguing and often ove...

This trans-historical exhibition of drawings is devoted to the subject of the artist at work. Drawn principally from a very fine specialist private...

A celebration of female inventiveness and aesthetic sensibility, Shedding the Shackles explores womens craft enterprises, their artisanal excellenc...

Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between the Western canon of art, as it has developed since the Renaissance, and...

Mega-Tokyo 2032 - the members of a gigantic mega-corporation have used artificial lifeforms called Boomers to carry out their evil plans. An all-fe...

A new history of digital art from the 1960s to the present day, with decade-by-decade essays exploring evolving digital art practices, alongside in...

The chain of linked cultures of the southern coast of New Guinea, from the Asmat in the west to the Papuan Gulf in the east all share remarkably si...

The chain of linked cultures of the southern coast of New Guinea, from the Asmat in the west to the Papuan Gulf in the east all share remarkably si...

An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant in the innovative artistic product...

Tokyo today is one of the world's mega-cities, and the centre of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture - but not everyone is aware of its past. Fou...

Accounts of paintings produced during the Mughal dynasty (1526-1857) tend to trace a linear, evolutionary path and assert that, as European Renaiss...

One of the most distinctive features of Islamic design is the evolution of an increasingly abstract and repetitive repertoire of motifs, which are ...

The rich variety of languages, religious traditions and schools of art of the Indian subcontinent are brought together in this exceptional library ...

Drawing on diverse perspectives, this collection of 12 essays and around 150 colour illustrations explores the history and mysteries of the Coral R...

Strawberry Hill, a fantasy gothic revival castle, was conceived and built by the influential art historian and antiquarian Horace Walpole (1717-179...

A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of...

Amid reconstruction after World War II, Japan saw the emergence of modern manga, which quickly became a favorite pastime of its citizens. Over the ...