History of art

In this bold rewriting of visual culture, Brooke Belisle uses dimensionality to rethink the history and theory of media aesthetics.

The first book to chart Scott Burton's performance art and sculpture of the 1970s.

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and conceptual perspectives in a single volume of new essays that facilitate a deeper understanding of the field of art activism as it stands today and as it looks towards the future.

Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international politics during the decades of the 1950s and 1960s.

A richly illustrated introduction to the contribution of Roman and provincial coinage to the history of this period, aimed at undergraduates.

This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music.

Reflections on Art and Culture: From Diderot's Salons to Panodyssey and Art Explora offers a series of art reviews of some of the most exciting and artistically diverse trends in contemporary painting, sculpture and photography, presented in light of art history, aesthetics and intellectual history.

This set of 11 volumes, originally published between 1946 and 2001, amalgamates a wide breadth of research on Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, including studies on photography, theatre, opera, and music.

Felix Vallotton (1865-1925) was active at the turn of the century.

This book follows Chagall's life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being.

This book examines the early development of the graphic arts from the perspectives of material things, human actors and immaterial representations while broadening the geographic field of inquiry to Central Europe and the British Isles and considering the reception of the prints on other continents.

The evolution of city planning theory and practice in the first half of the twentieth century was captured and driven by a range of exhibitionary practices in a variety of settings globally, from international expos to local public halls.

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Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality?

During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield.

It will be essential reading for anyone interested in arts and culture in the city.

The strict prohibition on the representation of the human form has channeled artistic creation into architecture and architectural decoration.

The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century.

Globalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as 'networks' or 'flows' and usually in relation to recent history.

Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev opened up greater freedoms in cultural and intellectual life.

Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an "e;artist-engineer-scientist,"e; a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincare.

In this multidisciplinary book, Sanda Iliescu articulates a rich, multi-faceted approach to the aesthetic experience.

Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of its potable water.

The Necessity of Sculpture brings together a selection of articles on sculpture and sculptors from Eric Gibson's nearly four-decade career as an art critic.

This volume of edited essays is the first one in English to offer a critical overview of the specific features of Belgian modernity from 1880 to 1940 in a multiplicity of disciplines: literature and poetry, politics, music, photography and drama.

Through a combination of theory, practice, and a range of interdisciplinary case studies, this book expands how we define and think about the critical role and relationship between design and emergencies.

Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-consciously modern nations.

China has been one of the first countries to develop its own aesthetic for dynamic images and to create animation films with distinctive characteristics.

The art of public structure is nearly as old as society itself, and its figurative representations (and gaps) represent deep wells of insight into culture.

An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current “drone vision” works.

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "e;cartographic abstraction"e; - a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction.

The 1970s is often considered the period that design forgot.

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A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada's best-known artists, Jackson's Wars follows A.

The Material Culture of Tableware is a fascinating and authoritative study of patterned tableware in the US.

During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society.

Against Ambience diagnoses - in order to cure - the art world's recent turn toward ambience.

Focusing on Black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early Black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of Black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Positioning cultural democracy in a historical context and in a context of adjacent movements such as the creative commons, open source movement, and maker movement, this book goes back to first principles and asks what personhood means in the twenty-first century, what cultural democracy means, why we should want it, and how we can work towards it.

How the interactions of non-elites influenced Athenian material culture and societyThe seventh century BC in ancient Greece is referred to as the Orientalizing period because of the strong presence of Near Eastern elements in art and culture.

Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure.

Architectural discourse and practice are dominated by a false dichotomy between design and chance, and governed by the belief that the architect's role is to defend against the indeterminate.

This book offers a fundamental reworking of the history of the development of Greek music from the classical period to Roman times.

One of the most vibrant artists of her generation, Pegi Nicol MacLeod was a charismatic bohemian whose expressive images of the contemporary world were an essential component of Canadian modernism during the 1930s and 1940s.

Images of Justice resonates with voices of the North and comes alive through interviews with many of those involved in the cases - defendants, judges, and prosecutors.

The Art of Resistance surveys the lives of seven paintersDing Cong (19162009), Feng Zikai (18981975), Li Keran (190789), Li Kuchan (18981983), Huang Yongyu (b.

This richly illustrated volume provides an architectural history of the central section of the Roman Forum during the Empire (31 BCE–476 CE).