Andrey Shabanov's seminal reinterpretation of the Peredvizhniki is a comprehensive study that examines in-depth for the first time the organizational structure, self-representation, exhibitions, and critical reception of this 19th-century artistic partnership.
This study demonstrates the significance of using contemporary art in scholarly debates about cultural aspects of skin, in particular "e;whiteness"e; as a phenomenon that is both overly visible and invisible.
Wenn von Goethe als dem bedeutendsten "Klassiker" der deutschen Literatur gesprochen wird, so sind damit vor allem sein "Faust", seine "Iphigenie", sein "Wilhelm Meister", seine autobiographischen Schriften sowie seine Gedichte und Balladen gemeint.
Elizabeth Gwillim (1763-1807) and her sister Mary Symonds (1772-1854) produced over two hundred watercolours depicting birds, fish, flowers, people, and landscapes around Madras (now Chennai).
Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly original process metaphysics.
Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art.
This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into obscurity after leaving New York to marry a scientist in Baltimore, and her constant efforts to reinvent her style and subject matter.
The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity.
Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and perspectives excluded from the privileged and uncontested narrative of "e;isms.
This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007.
Mit der Suche nach dem im elterlichen Garten vergrabenen Gorilla beginnt Valérie Favres Reise in die Welt der Imagination, der Fantasien, Alpträume, Erinnerungen und Werke der Kunstgeschichte.
