Art Treatments & Subjects

Initiating readers in the fascinating and complex history of witchcraft, from the goddess mythologies of ancient cultures to the contemporary embra...

The concept of the avant garde is highly contested, whether one consigns it to history or claims it for present-day or future uses. The first volum...

The Art of Eliza Ivanova is an evocative, edgy, and beautiful book filled with the work of this exciting artist. A graduate of the California Insti...

The notion of a person--or even an object--having a double has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the bod...

Musical Mathematics is the definitive tome for the adventurous musician. Weaving together mathematical analysis, music history, and hands-on expert...

Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Caravarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert-these renowned view painters are perhaps best...

In Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs Fourth Edition, scholar C.A.S. Williams offers concise explanations of the important symbols and motifs relevan...

From ballet to burlesque, from the frontier jig to the jitterbug, Americans have always loved watching dance, whether in grand ballrooms, on Missis...

Through 349 images, celebrate America in all her glory. Whether its a piece to hang on a wall, to be worn, or for marketing propaganda, see how six...

The sculptural sensibility of Sarbari Roy Choudhury represented in this monograph is figurative and animated, revealing the artist''s connection wi...

Through a unique partnership model with forty-five community organizations, the Detroit Institute of Arts' 2012 community photography project Revea...

This book traces some key developments in British 18th- and 19th-century painting, focusing in particular on the outstanding portraits and landscap...

This series, packed with glorious full-colour illustrations throughout - explores some the most enduring themes found throughout the history of art...

'There's something about the Whiteknights area that makes people stay here.' - From the Foreword by Fiona Talkington, BBC Radio 3 Presenter and lon...

It is astonishing how deeply the figure of Ophelia has been woven into the fabric of Spanish literature and the visual arts from her first appeara...