The Arts: General Issues

Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art historys complex relationships with...

This book is the first comprehensive survey of aristocratic art collecting and patronage in Elizabethan England, as seen through the activities of ...

The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists whose primary medium is software. Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of c...

This second volume of Studies in Art, Science, and Technology unites studies by scientists, curators, and conservators, all of which are published ...

The National Gallery of Art introduces a new journal presenting the latest conservation research on works in its collection. Named for the manner i...

He also writes introducEons for exhibiEon catalogues and, to date, is the author of some 17 books, mostly full-length monographs on arEsts includin...

In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit, as works of art as sacred obj...

Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies . The ruins of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art's tur...

Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout...

Abridged version of the global bestseller. This historic volume showcases tribal cultures around the world. With globalization, these societies are...

City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s, but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively na...

The greatest paintings in today's most famous museums were once part of a fluid exchange determined by volatile political fortunes. In the firs...