History of art

Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedlander (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Hoch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century science.

This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cultural patronage and international gendered networks developed by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere.

Georg Osterwald wurde 1803 in Rinteln geboren und studierte in Bonn und München.

This collection of articles explores a possible alternative beginning of Global Art History and World Art Studies, two methodologies that set a worldwide focus in the study of art around the 2000s.

For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs no introduction.

This book examines early modern drama's depiction of non-standard forms of masculinity grounded in superficiality, inauthenticity, affectation, and the display of the extravagantly clothed body.

For many children of the sixties, the gift of a Schwinn was a ticket to freedom, a chance to feel the wind on their face and the steady rotation of rubber at their feet.

How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to create a work of art in a world where humanity could be rendered extinct by its own hand.

Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.

Ron Athey is an iconic figure in contemporary art and performance.

This book is an in-depth study of the Old Testament narratives in Lorenzo Ghiberti''s masterpiece Gates of Paradise.

This fascinating Japanese photography book features over 140 images taken between 1853 and 1905 by the most important local and foreign photographers then working in Japan.

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day.

The fin de siecle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism.

Aside from Hagia Sophia, the monuments of the Byzantine East are poorly understood today.

Of the few historical shortlists women make as influencers in the arts, the same few names are recognized, making the catalogue of powerful and gifted females feel like an small and exclusive club.

Curation as a concept and a catchword in modern parlance has, over recent decades, become deeply ingrained in modern culture.

In Athens, most remains of the ancient city-wall were revealed during rescue excavations; as a result, documentation is scattered and fragmented.

The first comprehensive, comparative study of the visual culture of monarchy in the reigns of William and Mary and Queen AnneThis book provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of the visual culture of monarchy in the reigns of William and Mary and Queen Anne.

Saints and Spectacle examines the origins and reception of the Middle Byzantine program of mosaic decoration.

This book is focused on the transcultural memory of the Mediterranean region and the different ways it is articulated by contemporary art practices and museum projects linked to migrations, exile, diaspora and transnationality.

Die Kunstgeschichte tendiert dazu, Artefakte einzelnen Künstlerpersönlichkeiten zuzuschreiben und als "eigenhändig" zu qualifizieren.

The famous Italian artist Raphael's illustrations, drawings and portraits, shown in this book of plates by Oskar Fichnel.

What made art modern?

Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity.

The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artefacts of ancient Egypt.

This is a book about contemporary literary and artistic entanglements: word and image, media and materiality, inscription and illustration.

First published in 1967, Victorian Artists documents the painting of the Victorian period, that is, the period between the death of Constable and William IV in 1837, the first Post-Impressionist painting in 1910 and the end of an epoch in British painting.

Photography: History and Theory introduces students to both the history of photography and critical theory.

This edited volume explores the dialogue between art and music with that of mystical currents at the turn of the twentieth century.

The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century.

An interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth-century Florence.

How Drawings Work cheekily explains that what architects make is information that enables other people to make buildings.

This comprehensive, beautiful book delves deep into the complex but fascinating story of our relationship with colour throughout human history.

*Winner of the American Society for Aesthetics 2019 Outstanding Monograph Prize*Until now, research on art schools has been largely occupied with the facts of particular schools and teachers.

Through its examination of five quite different art events in cities across Europe, Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe offers a compelling exploration of how public art takes place in the modern city.

A groundbreaking account of the role of writing in Michelangelo's artMichelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Pieta, and the dome of St.

Art journaling is a vital activity for artists who need a place to experiment, draw, paint, document ideas, and continue an interior dialog.

This book presents both a historical survey and a critical re-evaluation of the contested and contingent nature of the medium of painting over the last 60 years.

This book examines the ways in which luxury fashion brands use their heritage in their digital storytelling and marketing.

Lillian Daniel shares how her congregation re-appropriated the practice of testimony one Lenten season, a practice that would eventually revitalize their worship and transform their congregational culture.

The Art of Resistance surveys the lives of seven paintersDing Cong (19162009), Feng Zikai (18981975), Li Keran (190789), Li Kuchan (18981983), Huang Yongyu (b.

A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts.

In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010.

During the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the censorious attitude that characterized China's post-1989 official response to contemporary art gave way to a new market-driven, culture industry valuation of art.

This book offers a radically new perspective on the so-called 'Pop Art' creative dynamic that has been around since the 1950s.