History of art

The volume is a detailed discussion of the history of Indian and Ceylonese art during ancient, medieval, and modern times.

Is literature of political use, and if yes, how might this use be defined?

From the Renaissance to the present day, this is the history of art told through the female form, with over 80 works of art.

The history of art in the Indian subcontinent, indeed, is highly rich in its content, aesthetical value, and ornated in nature.

Across Mexico, human rights abuses take many forms, as do the strategies designed to denounce and resist them.

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Este libro aborda los misterios de una obra de arte considerada por muchos el mejor cuadro de todos los tiempos.

This study investigates cultural exchange between the Surrealist movement and the People's Republic of China (1949-present).

This book offers an artist's perspective on the intriguing relationship between quantum physics and fine art, focusing particularly on the role of probability, chance and uncertainty.

This book unfolds the artistic and cultural exchanges between China, Persia, and Italy, picturing "e;a Transcultural Renaissance on the Silk Road"e; with fascinating reading of rich images.

This book unfolds the artistic and cultural exchanges between China, Persia, and Italy, picturing "e;a Transcultural Renaissance on the Silk Road"e; with fascinating reading of rich images.

This book offers an artist's perspective on the intriguing relationship between quantum physics and fine art, focusing particularly on the role of probability, chance and uncertainty.

This study investigates cultural exchange between the Surrealist movement and the People's Republic of China (1949-present).

Rembrandt's extraordinary paintings of female nudes - Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and Her Nymphs, Danae, Bathsheba - as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians, but they have also elicited vehement criticism.

An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscriptsFacsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts have long been a focus for this kind of reproduction.

In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in London's East End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional consideration of the entirety of the most infamous of crimes and their legacy for the first time.

Rembrandt's extraordinary paintings of female nudes - Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and Her Nymphs, Danae, Bathsheba - as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians, but they have also elicited vehement criticism.

Is literature of political use, and if yes, how might this use be defined?

In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in London's East End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional consideration of the entirety of the most infamous of crimes and their legacy for the first time.

This volume explores issues of repair, maintenance, sustenance, and adaptation within the context of interior design and its histories.

This volume explores issues of repair, maintenance, sustenance, and adaptation within the context of interior design and its histories.

Contemporary Art in the Conflicts of Globalization presents an authoritative introductory guide to the emergence, development, and meanings of contemporary art around the world from the era of twentieth-century western colonialism to the crises and conflicts of globalization over the last three decades.

This volume focuses on artists and writers associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, Scottish Symbolism and the Celtic Revival.

Contemporary Art in the Conflicts of Globalization presents an authoritative introductory guide to the emergence, development, and meanings of contemporary art around the world from the era of twentieth-century western colonialism to the crises and conflicts of globalization over the last three decades.

A traves de una serie de casos mas o menos anomalos, el reconocido historiador italiano Carlo Ginzburg reflexiona sobre las imagenes en el arte y su largo dialogo con las palabras: De Vasari a Aby Warburg; de Federico Zeri a Anthony Grafton; de Francis Galton a Freud y Wittgenstein.

This volume introduces key artists such as the Scottish Pre-Raphaelites and the Glasgow Boys and engages with the critical debates and artistic theories that were circulating in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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.

This volume reframes French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) in the history of art via a focus on the spaces and people that informed her work and thereby offers a new interpretation of Impressionism and of modernist aesthetics.

In Spoiled, Summer Kim Lee examines how contemporary Asian American artists challenge expectations that their work should repair the wounds of racial trauma.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) ist zweifellos einer der bedeutendsten und vielseitigsten Theoretiker der Aufklarung.

In Mavericks of Style, Uri McMillan tells the story of New York City's downtown art and fashion scene of the 1970s through the lives and careers of experimental Black and Brown artists.