Painting & Paintings

The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America’s found...

Intense visual experiencesIn her paintings, Rebekka Steiger takes us into strange and colorful dream worlds. Sometimes flowery, sometimes eerie, he...

In this book, Aleš Debeljak offers a refreshing alternative to postmodernists such as Baudrillard, who declare the death of art conceived as yet an...

With its dramatic landscapes and rugged beauty, Alberta's Bow River valley has inspired generations of artists. The Painted Valley brings together ...

In the art of the Italian Renaissance, the subject of the Madonna with Child was chosen for pictures more frequently than any other. Raphael’s pai...

In 1951, Joan Eardley visited the coastal fishing village of Catterline in north-east Scotland for the first time. Her visit sparked a fascination ...

'The lives of the characters get entangled in this powerful read' WOMAN'S OWN'A pacy, gripping tale of secrets, love and betrayal in 1950s Cataloni...

Trompe L’Oeil Today offers a fascinating overview of the range of styles and techniques of illusionistic painting for private residences and public...

The late-Ming official Hsieh Chao-che traveled widely, spending most of his career in the provinces. His Wu-tsa-tsu (Five miscellanies) is a pricel...

In Chinese painting there is no clear desire to separate the subjective world and the objective world. Rather, there is a constant, conscious play ...

In the second half of the twentieth century, studies in Chinese painting history have been greatly aided by several major lists of Chinese artists ...

Reta Cowley came to maturity as an artist in the late 1950s and early 1960s at a time when abstraction was on the ascendant and the Regina Five and...

The Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia began in 1984 as a summer youth program with modest support from city government. Under the guidance of Jan...

V monografii vpervye rassmatrivaetsja žizn’ i naučnoe tvorčestvo prof. N. L. Okuneva (1885-1949), iskusstvoveda, specialista po vizantijskomu, drev...

Over the past decade, the integration of psychology and fine art has sparked growing academic interest among researchers of these disciplines. The ...

In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surroundin...