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

In the last years of the nineteenth century, the Tunisian city of Qayrawn suddenly found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the c...

Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany is the first English-language examination of this German impressionist painter whose long life and ca...

Harness the beauty of the natural world to create unique textile art pieces. Learn how to create beautiful textile art inspired by details in natur...

The revered tradition of botanical illustration dates back to the Renaissance. It emerged from the desire to catalog nature in its unpredictable sp...

This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his st...

As inviting and sensual as a warm summer day, this opulent exhibition catalog offers a deep appreciation of Klimt's ornate, exquisitely detailed, a...

Text in English & German. The beautiful Lau, the heroine of Eduard Mörike's story, is only half a water spirit -- her mother was a human woman,...

The theme of the book is the interpretation of Italian Renaissance art by French artists as of the final decades of the 18th century. In particular...

One of the difficulties about how our minds work is that we often cannot quite clearly see or know what is inside us. Art therapists have a longsta...

In early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among Chinas educated elites began to use touch...

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before. Inventions, suc...

In this book, three famous, late 19th-century artists take centre stage: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and Henri Le Faucon...

Utagawa Hiroshige (17971858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning pictures of the floating world, ukiyo-e ...

This anthology outlines a research project at the Angermuseum in Erfurt and forms the start of a new assessment of the landscape painter Friedrich ...

Motherhood, whether achieved through biological or other means, is not a rare experience; dressing oneself, even less so. The two phenomena are int...

This is a fascinating look at one of the defining images of the Impressionist movement. Manet Paints Monet focuses on an auspicious moment in the h...

With contributions from outstanding specialists in glass art and East Asian art history, this edited volume opens a cross-cultural dialogue on the ...

It is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even hostility towards Vincent and his work, to feel towards the end of my life that the...