History of art

Nicknamed the "e;Island of Lace,"e; the Caribbean island of Saba is the smallest special municipality in the Netherlands.

The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies-termed the post-soul era-created new ways to understand the aesthetics of global racial representation.

In Unconsolable Contemporary Paul Rabinow continues his explorations of "e;a philosophic anthropology of the contemporary.

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

Gegenstand des Werkes ist die Darstellung und Analyse des amerikanischen Künstlermilieus in Venedig und seiner Entwicklung von 1880 bis zur Gegenwart.

This collection explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision.

This study is an analysis of 'high' and 'late' modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Right now, there is no city in the United States more "e;it"e; than Nashville, TN.

Written at the height of the arts and crafts movement in fin-de-siecle Vienna, Alois Riegl's Stilfragen represented a turning point in defining art and understanding the sources of its inspiration.

Comedy in Crises provides a novel contribution to an emerging comedy studies field, offering a fresh approach and understanding toward both the motivation and reception of humour in diverse contemporary art contexts.

Early American Children's Clothing and Textiles: Clothing a Child 1600-1800 explores the life experiences of Indigenous, Anglo-European, African, and mixed-race children in colonial America, their connections to textile production, the process of textile production, the textiles created, and the clothing they wore.

Examining the extraordinary influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on French thought from 1875 to 1910, Rae Beth Gordon argues for a reconsideration of modernism both in time and in place that situates its beginnings in the French cafe-concert aesthetic.

For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz has selected from the fuller third edition his entries on North Americans, including Canadians, Mexicans, and resident immigrants.

The essays in Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art build on Marcia Hall's seminal contributions in several categories crucial for Renaissance studies, especially the spatiality of the church interior, the altarpiece's facture and affectivity, the notion of artistic style, and the controversy over images in the era of Counter Reform.

Claims authorial intention, art history, and morality play a role in our encounter with art works.

At a moment when the discipline of Canadian art history seems to be in flux and the study of Canadian visual culture is gaining traction outside of art history departments, the authors of Negotiations in a Vacant Lot were asked: is "e;Canada"e; - or any other nation - still relevant as a category of inquiry?

This book addresses practical issues in connoisseurship and authentication, as well as the legal implications that arise when an artwork's authenticity is challenged.

New insights into inscribed and stone monuments from across Europe in the early middle ages.

Modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy reach back to the time of Homer's Iliad.

This innovative how-to guide and reference book on the Jewish holidays provides a well-rounded foundation for both knowledge and action.

Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (Mercury in his Roman alter ego) is the most versatile, enigmatic, complex, and ambiguous.

When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Barelli had spent the better part of forty years responsible not only for one of the richest treasure troves on the planet, but the museum's staff, the millions of visitors, as well as American presidents, royalty, and heads of state from around the world.

Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars, theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian culture and photography.

Just as in his previous volume, The Secrets of Hebrew Words, Rabbi Blech brings readers into the fascinating world of gematria (the reckoning of numbers) and acronyms to uncover the vast profundity hidden in everyday Hebrew language.

'Art is continually haunted by the animal', wrote Deleuze and Guattari.

The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern eraThe life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and at the court which Goya served, changes in society, the devastation of the Iberian Peninsula in the war against Napoleon, and an ensuing period of political instability.

In Fashion, Media, Promotion: the new black magic Fashion is linked to its communication networks - involving the reader in the process of selling Fashion in the global marketplace.

Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue celebrates ten years of Ginger Dunnills podcast of the same name and exalts the intersectionality of contemporary artists.

Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 1,500 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world.

Ever since its triumph at the Paris Universal Exposition, Art Nouveau has continued to inspire artists.

From Subjection to Survival is a work of feminist scholarship that works at the intersection of literature and art history, the written and the visual.

This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing that these gemstones were a referential group with complex interrelationships.

Readers will know Bob Ross (1942-1995) as the gentle, afro'd painter of happy trees on PBS.

This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the Dialogues on Painting, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (1568-1638) in 1633.

In recent years, celebrities from George Clooney to Bono to Angelina Jolie have attempted to play an increasingly important role in global politics.

The book investigates the lives and careers of the Procaccini brothers: Camillo (1561-1629), Carlo Antonio (1571-1631) and Giulio Cesare (1574-1625), the most important family of painters working in northern Italy at the start of the seventeenth century.

Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian perspective.

Fok focuses on the ways in which these artists use their own bodies, animals' bodies and other corporeal substances to represent life and death in performance art, installations, and photography.

A leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Across the nine thematic chapters of Experiencing Medieval Art, renowned art historian Herbert L.

In many different parts of the world modern furniture elements have served as material expressions of power in the post-war era.

Examining the extraordinary influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on French thought from 1875 to 1910, Rae Beth Gordon argues for a reconsideration of modernism both in time and in place that situates its beginnings in the French cafe-concert aesthetic.

Wien um 1900 – Hier befand sich nicht nur das Zentrum der Habsburgermonarchie, sondern auch das Herzstück des europäischen Kunstlebens.