Art Treatments & Subjects

Although mastery of the representation of the human figure was central to art making as early as the fifteenth century in Europe, in the nineteenth...

The Kathmandu Valley is the most populated region of Nepal, and the Newar, probable descendants of the Kirati who settled in the Valley in the firs...

A fascinating look at how Mapplethorpe and Munch, although separated by many years, shared certain affinities in their lives and artwork This revel...

Cuban American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta addresses what author Alejandro Anreus calls the “wounds and screams” of the human condition. Although Cruz...

For a long time only slightly noticed, modernist movements in Chinese art history are gaining more and more recognition. One of its key fi gures is...

Though very much an individual and spiritual artist, Alphonse Mucha was a defining figure of the Art Nouveau era and is loved for his distinctive l...

A new generation of American medieval art historians explores how sacred images were perceived during the Middle Ages in Byzantium and Europe. The ...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEARA revolutionary ne...

Comprised of more than thirty large-scale works in two- and three-dimensions and drawn entirely from the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger C...

Angels from Infinity: The Sculptures of Chi Wing Lo explores and interprets Chi Wing Lo’s sculpture art. His works remind us that art is, among oth...

The catalogue, divided into two volumes, follows chronologically the development of Gauguin's work. Each painting is reproduced in color and is fol...

It’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and street...

An authoritative annual record of scientific research and conservation carried out at the National Gallery, London  The National Gallery Technical ...

The saw is one of the most basic tools and tends to be taken very much for granted. Many hours and much effort can be saved, and more accurate work...

The nation’s premier private collection of Rookwood art pottery featuring American Indian portraiture is on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum fr...

The increasing appearance of vertical milling machines in model engineers' and other small workshops has brought the versatility of this type of ma...

Henry Darger (1892–1973) was a hospital janitor and an immensely productive artist and writer. In the first decades of adulthood, he wrote a 15,145...

Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women’s lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, ...

Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except ...

In less than two decades, Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876–1923) created a powerful oeuvre comprising paintings, woodcuts, glass works and mosaics. Her ...

In the capital of Kievan Rus’, princely Kiev, almost 70 medieval hoards have been discovered to date. The hoards published in this book contained g...

Creator of such acclaimed works as the performance Meat Joy and the film Fuses, for decades the artist Carolee Schneemann has saved the letters she...

This book addresses specialized translation, focusing on the forms of translation with the potential to make specialized languages more comprehensi...

The centre-lathe is by far the most versatile machine tool in the workshop, but as soon as you depart from plain turning between centres, the quest...

Renew your soul through the beauty of art and creativity. Certified as one of nine Master Penmen in the world, fine artist Jake Weidmann invites yo...

Two series of small, colourful paintings by Birmingham (UK) based artist Ben Sadler, inspired by a curious cast of imaginary visitors to an imagina...

The Canadian War Museum possesses one of the finest twentieth-century official war art collections in the world. Until relatively recently, however...

The Great Landscape with a Tempest in Vienna is one of Peter Paul Rubens’s largest and most dramatic landscapes. Starting from the far-reaching dis...

In this valuable book Tubal Cain takes the reader beyond the superficial or the simply practical with explanations of the composition of steel, its...

Ours is a culture defined by marketing and acquiring. Virtually every activity in our lives is experienced through purchases, from layettes to cask...

Despite the growing numbers of milling machines in amateur workshops, a majority of model engineers still rely on a lathe and a drilling machine as...

Although much of model engineering work is a matter of making one part to fit another and thus may obviate the need for the sophisticated means of ...

The techniques of depositing a thin metallic layer on an object for decoration, corrosion protection, electrical conductivity, wear resistance and ...

The art of welding wrought iron has been practiced by village smiths in their forge fires for centuries. Gas and electric arc welding are however c...

This catalogue accompanying the exhibition Invisibilia constitutes the first substantive monograph on Oscar Munoz’s work in English. The publicatio...

Groundbreaking book that explores the collection of the Brooklyn Museum  to reframe the narrative of American Art from a Black feminist perspective...

Paradise Lost has never received a substantial, book-length reading by a philosopher. This, however should surprise no one, for Milton himself desp...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was the best-selling American children s book of the twentieth century, and the classic 1939 movie of this quintessentia...

Portraits are everywhere. One finds them not only in museums and galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of people and in the...

Daniel Clowes (b. 1961) emerged from the ""alternative comics"" boom of the 1980s as one of the most significant cartoonists and most distinctive v...

Joining metals by one form or another of soft or hard soldering, or brazing with various alloys, are run-of-the-mill jobs in model and light engine...

Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women’s lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, ...