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

George Cruikshank's (1792-1878) etchings and wood-engravings graced the pages of such classics as Grimms' Fairy Tales and Dickens' Oliver Twist, ca...

For centuries, interest in Shakespeare's Hamlet has prioritised its brooding, melancholy prince. Yet, over time, the enigmatic Ophelia, his tragic ...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010. Designing the Modern Interior reveals how the design of the inside spaces of our homes and public buildi...

The debate about the return of cultural assets to former colonial territories is highly topical and at the same time much older than most assume. ...

This book is the first to examine Renoirs handling of fashion and textiles, so opening up a fresh approach to the initially fêted artist who came ...

This publication, together with the exhibition it accompanies, presents the largest ever survey of work by Vanessa Bell (18791961). Described in 19...

A beautiful, one-of-a-kind collection of more than 150 of Van Gogh's letters, paired with more than 250 works of art.Vincent Van Gogh wrote hundred...

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,...

In the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851) lies an impact akin to a sudden acquisition of sight. His landscapes and seascapes scorch t...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner regarded the picture and its frame as a unit. Contrary to Kirchners intention that they belong together, over the years some ...

The Kisokaid route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the countrys then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be inst...

A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world.Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted...

This book takes a timely look at how Scotlands national politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring the role the architecture of Scotl...

In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist science of imaginary solutions, a concept that has been no...

Breaking out of Tradition traces the pioneering developments in lacquer art at the beginning of the 20th century in Japan. The lacquer artists of t...

In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photographys vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the ninete...

Critical Voices is a fascinating account of women writing about art in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Meaghan Clarke employs extensi...

This volume explores the early history of the photographic studio and portrait in China and Japan. The institution of the photographic studio has r...

The first substantial Mexican colonial art historiography in English, this book examines the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico as a sym...

En 1901, deprimido por el suicidio de su intimo amigo, Carles Casagemas, Picasso se sumerge en los lienzos austeros y melancolicos del Periodo Azul...

From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resista...