History of art

First published in 1998, this volume explores the expanding wave of a new kind of museums of contemporary art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The daughter of Haitian journalist and pro-democracy activist Jean Leopold Dominique, who was assassinated in 2000, Jan J.

Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice.

Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art.

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests.

This book advances an enactivist theory of aesthetics through the study of inscrutable artworks that challenge us to think because we do not know what to think about them.

This volume provides a new perspective on the emergence of the modern study of antiquity, Altertumswissenschaft, in eighteenth-century Germany through an exploration of debates that arose over the work of the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann between his death in 1768 and the end of the century.

The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries.

Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps.

The synthetic proposition examines the impact of Civil Rights, Black Power, the student, feminist and sexual-liberty movements on conceptualism and its legacies in the United States between the late 1960s and the 1990s.

Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South recounts the enormous influence of artists in the evolution of six southern cities-Atlanta, Charleston, New Orleans, Louisville, Austin, and Miami-from 1865 to 1950.

Explores the literary texts produced during Byzantine Iconoclasm and their use as ideological tools by the main political circles.

Serial Drawing offers a timely and rigorous exploration of a relatively little-researched art form.

During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail.

A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.

Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen observer of postmodern art and lesbian feminist life who challenged how dance, art, and women can and should be seen.

In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gerin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, theatre, cinema, and the circus under Lenin and Stalin.

Taken together, the chapters in this book outline a theory and a practice of painting ecstatic ordinarinesses in contemporary, diverse American queer life.

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America.

To walk through Florence is to step into one of the most remarkable histories of any European city.

This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility-actual, social, virtual, and imaginary-as related to visual culture.

First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Nestor Garcia Canclini's deft assessment of contemporary art.

*WINNER OF THE NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author*A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneersfamous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, and morewith biographical reflections, all created and curated by an award-winning graphic designer.

Ornans, Courbet's birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape.

More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history.

This book demonstrates the pervading influence of visual art in the composition, production and reception of Renaissance English drama.

This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cultures of Scotland and Brittany (poetry, song and story) can be transformed by the use of hybrid forms and new digital technologies.

The Spaces of the Hospital examines how hospitals operated as a complex category of social, urban and architectural space in London from 1680 to 1820.

Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet.

* 'Great art has dreadful manners.

In a recent poll of practicing art critics, 75 percent reported that rendering judgments on artworks was the least significant aspect of their job.

Weapons and tools are frequently found depicted in rock art in many parts of the globe and different periods and in varying social contexts.

Combining an economic perspective with sociological and historic insights, this book investigates the separation of 'popular' and 'serious' art over a period of almost two centuries.

A scholarly, passionate and brilliantly-written biography of Pablo Picasso by Patrick O'Brian, the famous author of the much-loved Aubrey-Maturin series, reissued in a stunning new cover.

El presente libro constituye sin duda un hito en la produccion historico-artistica de nuestro pais.

A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.

By paying tribute to matter, materiality and materialisation, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What's Next?

This exciting collection of David Goldblatt's essays, available for the first time in one volume, uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand a variety of art world phenomena.

Between the third and sixth centuries, the ancient gods, goddesses, and heroes who had populated the imagination of humankind for a millennium were replaced by a new imagery of Christ and his saints.

We regularly touch and handle media devices.

The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history.

This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body.

More Sermon Nuggets contains ninety-five topics treated in hundreds of Fred R.

This exquisite anthology welcomes you into an enchanted realm rich with  myth, mystery, romance, and abounding natural beauty.

The Brooklyn Bridge is a pre-eminent global icon.

Drawing on thousands of historical documents from Polish and Dutch archives, this book explores Cold War cultural exchange between so-called 'smaller powers' of this global conflict, which thus far has been predominately explored from the perspective of the two superpowers or more pivotal countries.

Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France is the first major study of Salon caricature, a kind of graphic art criticism in which press artists drew comic versions of contemporary painting and sculpture for publication in widely consumed journals and albums.