Art Styles Not Defined by Date

This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijings Inside Out Art Museu...

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Ethan McGrath's setting of this well-known fourteenth-century macaronic text is expressive and rich, both h...

In Art for an Undivided Earth Jessica L. Horton reveals how the spatial philosophies underlying the American Indian Movement (AIM) were refigured b...

In Art for an Undivided Earth Jessica L. Horton reveals how the spatial philosophies underlying the American Indian Movement (AIM) were refigured b...

In this thought-provoking book, preeminent scholar Stephen Houston turns his attention to the crucial role of young males in Classic Maya society, ...

Comparing the radical aesthetic and social experiments undertaken by two exile intellectuals, Experiments in Exile charts a desire in their work to...

This revelatory book shows how the influential and controversial Empress Dowager Cixi used art and architecture to establish her authority   Empres...

Oriental Lifestyle will take you on a journey that explores astonishing artistic and architectural worlds, captured by a poetic eye. Like an enchan...

Illuminates the rich history of Asian Art from ancient times to the present Asian Art provides students with an accessible introduction to the hist...

One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with deviant male homosexuality by scor...

A unique style of court painting, combining Persian, Indian and European elements, developed in India under the Mughal emperors in the sixteenth an...

Winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits award (African Studies Association)Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects c...

Jaime Fernandes was born in 1899, in a small village, near one of the most unspoiled and rebellious rivers of Portugal, the River Zezere. He grew u...

This book tells the fascinating story of the rhinoceros Miss Clara, the most famous animal of the eighteenth century. It accompanies the fi rst eve...

In an age when so much of our time is spent staring at screens, it is easy to understand why the warmth, intimacy and idiosyncrasies of hand crafts...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival artnarrating war exploits in larg...

The Encyclopedia of East Asian Design is the first comprehensive publication to focus on East Asian design and its histories. Although definition...

In this book, author Martin Munro offers a new path into Caribbean studies based on sound. He argues that to understand and begin to transform the ...

Explanations in Iconography: Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning is a significant contribution to archaeology and to- iconography stud...

This illuminating exhibition catalogue interrogates the entanglement of the Islamic world with European visual culture during the medieval period a...

This latest philosophical text by John Sallis is inspired by the work of contemporary Chinese painter Cao Jun. It carries out a series of philosoph...