Art Styles Not Defined by Date

Rising from a forest mist or soaring overhead in parks and museums, magnificent cedar totem poles have captured the attention and imagination of vi...

The Admonitions scroll is an internationally recognized masterpiece of narrative painting and is arguably the earliest surviving Chinese painting. ...

Accompanying a major exhibition, this stunning volume serves as an introduction to North American Indian art and a rare opportunity to see this com...

The Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators consists of over 3,000 entries on a range of British artists, from medieval manu...

A new series of blank sketch books, with luxurious bindings. Combining high-quality production with on the best and most popular art, the covers ar...

The offering of gifts is a practice nearly as ancient and widespread as human culture itself. At courts throughout the Islamic world, the exchange ...

Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how c...

An expert guide to the history and the role of hei tiki, a beloved and much prized Maori artform. Of all Maori personal adornments, the human figu...

A beautiful reference book that explores Indian Art through 5000 years, collected from museums, galleries and private collections worldwide. Exqui...

What makes this work exceptional is the color photography, use of illustrations and diagrams, and maps.... One really gets the sense that this is a...

This book introduces readers to the belief and symbolism present in the prehistoric art of the Bering Strait region. For about a century, the archa...

From the 1860s through to the early 20th century the rise of Japonisme and the Art Nouveau movement meant that few could ignore or resist the obses...

There is a vast collection of Indian natural history drawings in the Library of the Natural History Museum, London. Spanning a period of more than ...

In 1788, nearly fifteen-hundred people on eleven sailing ships came ashore at Port Jackson in Australia after a gruelling eight month journey from ...

Many traditional crafts practiced in contemporary Egypt can be traced back hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Scenes inscribed on the walls of a...