Art Treatments & Subjects

This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their homes.This leads to a recons...

Restoring the role of theatrical performance as both subject and trope in the aesthetics of self-representation, Staging the Artist questions how n...

The presence of the orthopedically impaired body in art is so pervasive that, paradoxically, it has failed to attract the attention of most art his...

Remains to be Seen explores a disappearing but still tangible American landscape, from the rust-belt towns of the Midwest to the borscht-belt resor...

A long-overdue biography and rediscovery of 20th-century British artist John Nash ‘Andy Friend deftly carries the reader into a much-peopled narr...

Gronk was born in 1954 in the barrios of East Los Angeles. An autodidact by circumstance, he began his career as an urban muralist who had to look ...

This volume lists more than 4,800 European and 400 Australian, South African, and Japanese artists who worked from 1800 to 1990, and offers 9,000 s...

A welcome overview of the career of a significant yet often overlooked American painterAlfred Henry Maurer (1868–1932) was a prolific artist who wo...

Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) is an American artist who portrayed the sounds and colors of nature in his paintings and drawings, producing such wo...

This body of work is a contemplation of human beings' passage on earth and their intimate interrelation with the environment. This book attempts ...

Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of ...

The spread of the British Empire around the globe made vast changes in the relationship of peoples to places. Because the logistics of colonization...

William Powell Frith was one of the most popular and most successful figures of the Victorian art world. His work spanned the entire Victorian age ...

John Caspar Wild, expert painter and lithographer, produced some of the earliest known depictions of urban America in the nineteenth century. His p...

This is the first comprehensive book dealing solely with artists' monograms and signatures that are difficult to identify. This volume includes som...

We grant men a right to solitude. Why can’t we do the same for women? Ivory Frame arrives in Paris at the height of the surrealist movement. She f...

Vanessa Bell was a central figure within the Bloomsbury Group and lent to it a stability and coherence it might otherwise have lacked. A talented a...

An up-to-date look at the life and work of Pitseolak Ashoona.

The reception of Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy from its origins to its appearances in contemporary visual culture reveals how its popularity was a...

Learn dynamic sketching and watercolor techniques for creating cityscapes, landscapes, figures and faces, still lifes, and more, enhancing the stor...

100 Japanese Gardens is an ambitious attempt to profile the finest gardens in Japan, while also highlighting lesser known, but equally accomplished...

This 10th Anniversary Edition of Force: Animal Drawing: Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators offers readers an enlarged and an enhan...

In den 1950er-Jahren fand herman de vries über die informelle Malerei zur Kunst, gehörte in den 1960er-Jahren zur internationalen ZERO-Bewegung und...

This study explores the role of early medieval religious art in its historical context, focusing on England from the reign of Alfred the Great to t...

This highly anticipated catalogue, accompanying Gerhard Richter’s first exhibition with David Zwirner, presents Richter’s last paintings along with...