History of Art & Design Styles: c 1800 to c 1900

The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain. This book is the f...

Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltze...

A collection of quotes from Vincent van Gogh on art, love, nature, colour, ambition, friendship, future, sorrow and consolation. There are so many...

Briefe gehörten für Warburg zu den wichtigsten Formen des gedanklichen Austausches. In der Korrespondenz mit Familie, Freunden und Kollegen äußerte...

Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. It looks at seven women spanning t...

This book is the first volume on the artistic representation of industrial disputes in European art (from 1870 to 1914) since the catalogue of the ...

With essays on sojourning artists like Situ Qiao and local artists such as Tchang Ju Chi, Singaporean scholar and educator Yeo Mang Thong demonstra...

With their collecting boxes, notebooks and paintbrushes, Harriet and Helena Scott entered the masculine worlds of science and art and became two of...

Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. It describes how, during that period, ph...

The definitive English-language account of a singular Nordic artistThe Norwegian painter, novelist, and social critic Christian Krohg (18521925) is...

Fifty years ago, Canada celebrated its hundredth anniversary of Confederation. At Expo 67, in communities across the country, we celebrated our com...

The Ash K. Prakash Collection of works by James W. Morrice offers an exciting journey into the personal and artistic explorations of the first Cana...

No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (18401926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists,...

When all that was solid melted into air... For decades, intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in thrall to this vi...

The Courtauld Gallery holds the most important collection of works in the United Kingdom by the Post-impressionist master Paul Gauguin (18411903). ...

In Making the Unknown Known, leading scholars throughout Texas explore the significant role women artists played in developing early Texas art from...

In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic pro...

Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (18661944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early ...

Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (18661944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early ...

Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (18661944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early ...

Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Pierre-Auguste Renoir Masterpieces of Art features the popular works of this insightful artist, f...

Winter, spring, summer, autumnspend the whole year with masterworks of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in this new weekly engagement calendar ...