Art Styles Not Defined by Date

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century...

Who was responsible for the crimes of the Nazis? Party leaders and members? Rank-and-file soldiers and bureaucrats? Ordinary Germans? This question...

Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes two dozen newly-commiss...

Kalighat painting developed in the vicinity of the Kali temple in Kolkata, India, in the mid-nineteenth century. The paintings were completed on mi...

Tony C. Brown examines the inescapable yet infinitely troubling figure of the not-quite-nothing in Enlightenment attempts to think about the aesthe...

Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it m...

One of the great conceptual artists of the twenty-first century, Terry Adkins (1953-2014) was renowned for his pioneering work across mediums, from...

Pop América, 19651975 accompanies the first traveling exhibition to stage Pop art as a hemispheric phenomenon. The richly illustrated catalogue rev...

'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'.This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from acros...

In this book, leading art experts, art historians, and critics review the life, career, and artistic development of New York based Chinese artist Z...

This beautifully illustrated catalogue showcases 126 Spanish and Portuguese artworks from the 17th and 18th centuries, all highlights from the dazz...

Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration o...

The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals o...

Hiroshige is one of the most important artists of the Japanese woodblock print and is considered a master of ukiyo-e, the pictures of the floati...

His Great Wave off Kanagawa is the most famous work in East Asian art. Hokusai, a self-confessed eccentric and obsessive, created with his pictures...

The art world is on the move. As part of a critical reassessment of European-American art in an international context, many previously marginalised...

The subject of this book is the so-called London Qazvn, an early 14th-century illustrated Arabic copy of al-Qazvn's The Wonders of Creation and the...