Man-made Objects Depicted in Art

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

An important resource for scholars of contemporary art and architecture, this volume considers contemporary art that takes architecture as its subj...

Dallas Then and Now is one of the latest revised 'Then and Now' titles in the 3-million selling series from Anova Books. John Neely Bryan...

Maritime prints, drawings and watercolours a re discussed, and a historical survey of the development of marine art is given, by a former Head of P...

When Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900, he began the modern study of a phenomenon that has fascinated human beings for t...

The Impressionists are world renowned for their vibrant depictions of the atmospheric effects and shimmering beauty of the French countryside. Thes...

"Benos-Amos opens for the reader richly detailed adn nuanced vistas into the intellectual and cultural history of one of the major kingdoms of prec...

Swiss photographer Roland Iselin, born 1958, graduated from the famous photography class at the School of Design in Zurich (today Zurich University...

Georg Oskar Giannakoudakis' (*1985) practice is regarded as a visual diary of his personal observations of the mundane, specifically in nature and ...

Philadelphia possesses an exceptionally large number of places that have almost disappeared—from workshops and factories to sporting clubs and soci...

Vivid, clear-sighted images of American vernacular signage and architecture encountered along old US highways showcase the early black-and-white wo...

A remarkable collection of artworks that shine a light on the city’s grand edifices, quirky nooks, hidden quarters and modern architecture with equ...

Art pushes boundaries and so does skateboarding. This book explores this philosophy by showcasing skateboard-inspired artists and their work from a...

Archive, Matrix, Assembly: The Photographs of Thomas Struth 1978-2018 presents the first comprehensive, systematic theory of contemporary German ar...

The Franco-Swiss photographer Hélène Binet (b. 1959) is renowned for making images that express an intimate experience of architecture. Using a com...

Explore the past, present, and future of rail travel through 30 years of one artist's work.Once a common part of the American landscape, trains are...

Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe is the first book to focus directly on the visual representation of marginal and outcast people in early...

In New York’s Golden Age of Bridges, artist Antonio Masi teams up with writer and New York City historian Joan Marans Dim to offer a multidimension...

While much has been written about how photography serves architecture, this book looks at how fine-art photographers frame constructed space – from...

Buildings and their surrounding spaces influence the collective identity of an urban population. In turn, images of buildings in paintings and o...

An groundbreaking book of car photography, revealing the car's unique role in our cultureCar photography often evokes the same recycled tropes. Pre...

Over the past sixteen years, during Dr Li Zhenyu's travels he has amassed a massive collection of aerial photographs of cities. They serve as an al...

Representations of political power play an important role in Western art history from the late Middle Ages up to modern times. This volume by leadi...

As London evolves into a Babylonian-style city of lofty towers, the artist Anna Keen has been inspired to paint this London Metamorphosis. While ea...

The images in this book, Historic Photos of University of Michigan Football, depict 100 years of gridiron action and the players and coaches who co...

Trope Publishing Company’s new Mobile Edition Series identifies fine art photographers shooting in a new way, using mobile devices as their primary...

This is the first full-length study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades ...

Portsmouth: Collected Saturdays is a volume of images that show the hardship of deindustrialization, floods, and crime in Portsmouth, Ohio. Ken D. ...

Marc Brandenburg (* 1965) strolls through cities, photographing his impressions and then drawing them “like a human photocopier.” In this almost me...

The Imagery of Chess Revisited recovers a celebrated and extraordinary moment in art history: the 1944-45 exhibition The Imagery of Chess, held at ...

Ιoannis Makriyannis (1797-1864) was a Greek politician and author, best known today for his Memoirs. Starting from humble origins, he joined the Gr...