History of art

The course of German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought.

Communities of Style examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE).

From the mid-eighteenth century on, cultural life in the northern valley of the St John River blended the traditions of Acadian and French Canadian settlers with those of American immigrants.

Major Stigand was the Governor of Mongalla Province in the Sudan.

In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives.

Die Monografie stellt sich der Herausforderungen des global turns"e; in den Geisteswissenschaften aus der Perspektive der Kunstgeschichte.

Das in der Universitätsbibliothek Gießen als Codex 660 aufbewahrte Evangeliar entstand im späten 10.

How the practice of titling paintings has shaped their reception throughout modern historyA picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image.

This book studies the unexplored history of China-aided architecture erected in the developing world since the 1950s.

This book brings together, in systematic and generalized form, the main outlines of a conceptual scheme for the analysis of the structure and processes of social systems.

Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant?

Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other.

In and Out of View models an expansion in how censorship is discursively framed.

Responding to Heidegger's stark warnings concerning the essence of technology, this book demonstrates art's capacity to emancipate the life-world from globalized technological enframing.

Covering 2001 to today, Designing Retail Experience in the 21st Century presents readers with a critical, cross-disciplinary perspective on retail design, bringing together scholarship from design, architecture, branding, cultural studies and social studies.

Rooted in the places, cultures, histories, and wisdom of the diverse Asia-Pacific region, this book gathers heterogeneous practices of designing social innovation that address various social, political, and environmental challenges.

This book focuses on avant-garde literature and art in Europe and America during the first quarter of the twentieth century.

The compelling life story of Armenian ceramicist David Ohannessian, whose work changed the face of Jerusalem-and a granddaughter's search for his legacy.

More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents.

Originally describing language use and class position, vulgarity became, over the course of the nineteenth century, a word with wider social implications.

From 2016-2018, teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil found themselves at the center of a crisis.

A beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to todayWhile the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the invention of paper in China around 200 BCE.

This book considers a movement within Russian religious philosophy known as "e;full unity"e; (vseedinstvo), with a focus on one of its main representatives, Pavel Florensky (1882-1937).

President Nixon's famous 1972 trip has gone down in history as the first great opening between the West and Communist China.

This title explores the controversy surrounding the design of the new Foreign Office in London during Britain's Imperial heyday.

In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power.

Violence and Power in Ancient Egypt examines the use of Egyptian pictures of violence prior to the New Kingdom.

Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England.

Justin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan reframes the history of art and its politics in Japan post-1945.

Peter Paul Rubens and the Crisis of the Beati Moderni takes up the question of the issues involved in the formation of recent saints - or Beati moderni (modern Blesseds) as they were called - by the Jesuits and Oratorians in the new environment of increased strictures and censorship that developed after the Council of Trent with respect to legal canonization procedures and cultic devotion to the saints.

An engaging argument about what experimental music can tell us about being human.

In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, this book's author Joris Escher found two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.

WINNER Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2025, Society of Architectural HistoriansWINNER Historians of British Art Book Award 2025 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800-1960Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible.

Kirsten Malmkjaer argues that translating can and should be considered a valuable art form.

Olga von Boznańska (1865–1940) und Otolia Gräfin Kraszewska (1859–1945) gehören der ersten Generation von Künstlerinnen an, die professionell tätig waren und damit auch teilweise ihren Lebensunterhalt selbst bestritten.

Herbert Bayer was one of the most extraordinary artists associated with the Bauhaus school.

This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art.

The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism.

In 1970 a concrete replica of the St John’s Cross arrived in Iona sitting incongruously on the deck of a puffer delivering the island’s annual supply of coal.

Defending National Treasures explores the fate of art and cultural heritage during the Nazi occupation of France.