Art Styles Not Defined by Date

Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) is an emblematic figure of Orientalism. The son of the cabinet-maker Louis Majorelle, he trained at the École nationa...

From artifacts to the avant-garde: the “Amerindian” visual aesthetic presented in a colossal and copiously illustrated catalog After Europeans chr...

“The sound of the yidaki calls everyone together in unity.” - Djalu Gurruwiwi Yidaki, more commonly known as didgeridoo, is the iconic Aboriginal ...

An innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state. How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capa...

In Do You Remember? Celebrating Fifty Years of Earth, Wind & Fire, Trenton Bailey traces the humble beginning of Maurice White, his development...

Winner, 2024 Geiss-Hsu Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Ming StudiesThe goddess Guanyin began in India as the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara...

Highlighting many examples of previously unseen and unusual garments from one of the preeminent kimono collections, this dazzling volume explores t...

This book celebrates the thriving world of Islamic arts and crafts, as well as presenting the rich cultural, philosophical and historical heritage ...

The ultimate publication on Hokuei, the master of Osaka ukiyo-e printmakers and one of the most intriguing artists ever in kabuki-actor prints.Hoku...

Follows the path of an everyday object, from quarry to deskAn inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instru...

Korean painters participated in two major cultural trends of the late Choson period in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: inquiry into things...

Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly...

Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the...

This book showcases the work of contemporary ink artist Christina Tung Wai. Feathers and Taoist philosophy have been recurring subjects in her pain...

Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian HumanitiesBuddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of hi...

From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Gang...

National Jewish Book Awards 2019 Finalist for Visual Arts. Richly illustrated and meticulously documented, this is the first comprehensive survey...

Focusing on the prolific trade, transport and consumption of Chinese silk and porcelain, and Japanese lacquer abroad between 1500 and 1644, this gr...

Joseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894–1967) is recognized as one of the great Coast Salish artists, carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth century....

Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has ...

This volume accompanies the Art Brut CUBA exhibition organised by Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne and features essays by Cuban authors and oth...

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...

A celebration of female inventiveness and aesthetic sensibility, Shedding the Shackles explores women’s craft enterprises, their artisanal excellen...

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...