History of art

Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History.

In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy.

Wie nah oder fern stehen sich das europäische Theater und das amerikanische Musical?

This interdisciplinary book critically studies the processes of making art and creative arts education in the post-digital era.

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.

A renowned scholar’s reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to them With his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period.

This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo's well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pieta, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time.

'Avant-garde' Art Groups in China gives a critical account of four of the most significant avant-garde Chinese art groups and associations of the late 1970s and '80s.

Focusing on the art of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and his colleagues Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Frederic Bazille, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Fellow Men argues for the importance of the group as a defining subject of nineteenth-century French painting.

We are taught to believe in originals.

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.

Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibon-these Southern California artists formed a "e;bad boy"e; trifecta.

Create your own elegant greeting cards with the beauty of lifelike paper flowers!

Music and fashion: the deep connection between these two expressive worlds is firmly entrenched.

With an emphasis on photographic works that offer new perspectives on the history of American social documentary, this book considers a history of politically engaged photography that may serve as models for the representation of impending environmental injustices.

Wer war Max Huggler?

A brilliant brief account of romanticism and its influence from one of the most important philosophers and intellectual historians of the twentieth centuryIn The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers dissects and assesses a movement that changed the course of history.

The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St.

Pop art has traditionally been the most visible visual art within popular culture because its main transgression is easy to understand: the infiltration of the low into the high .

Giotto (1334) is the first European artist about whom it is possible to write following the schema of "e;life and work"e;.

A collection of distinguished essays by some of today's best nonfiction writers and journalistsFrom a Swedish hotel made of ice to the enigma of UFOs, from a tragedy on Lake Minnetonka to the gold mine of cyberpornography, The Princeton Reader brings together more than 90 favorite essays by 75 distinguished writers.

This volume seeks to close the gap between education systems across the world that remain systematically devoted to understanding our world through text rather than images.

This book of empirical studies analyzes examples of televisual shared universes since the 1960s to understand how the nature of televised serial narratives and network corporate policies have long created shared storyworlds.

A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art historyThroughout Chinese history, dynastic time-the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties-has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chinese art, even though there has been little examination of this concept in discourse and practice until now.

This book investigates theories of linear perspective in classical antiquity.

What is the work of art?

The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun, first staged in 1913 in St Petersburg, was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes designed by Kazimir Malevich.

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality?

Ambitious Form describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini.

In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals.

The first English-language book about Joanna Rajkowska and her unique practice of work in public space, in extremely diverse cultures and geographies.

Over the last few years, the ways in which we perceive and document rock art have shifted irreversibly.

The historic encounter around 1911 between the composer Arnold Schonberg and the painter Wassily Kandinsky occurred at a moment when the first wild revolts against traditional art, Dada and Futurism, had just manifested themselves.

In less than half a century, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia successfully defeated Fascist occupation, fended off dominating pressures from the Eastern and Western blocs, built a modern society on the ashes of war, created its own form of socialism, and led the formation of the Nonaligned Movement.

Wissenschaftliche Bilder prägen die Ergebnisse und Einsichten, welche sie darstellen, immer auch konstruktiv.

A study of the innovation and transfer of the building technology at the root of ancient Rome''s architectural revolution.

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A stylish collection of 100 recipes from the renowned BG restaurant at the singular luxury shopping emporium.

The ritual of eating and drinking together is one of the most important Christian events.

This book considers how art actually works, how the various art forms connect with the world of ordinary human experience.

In this book, Deborah Vischak argues that localized communities are an important source of identity in ancient Egypt.

The Evolution of Contemporary Arts Markets looks at the historical evolution of the art market from the 15th century to the present day.

This unique book presents an integrated approach to the chemistry of art materials, exploring the many chemical processes involved.

This title was first published in 2002.

The Art of Top Cow: Legacy brings together the past and present, showing the artistic evolution of the studio in a coffee table-style book featuring editorial commentary to guide collectors of exceptional comics' art through the history of each series and sure to bring fans of fine artwork from the world of comics together.