History of art

The visual arts have long been held to have an intimate link with emotions.

How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist period?

Looking at the dark history of Italian fashion by focusing on the impact of 1930s Fascism, this is the second edition of Eugenia Paulicelli's classic text.

This book explores the making of saints' cults in the early modern world from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering the entangled roles of materiality and globalization processes.

The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the ground-breaking role played by Germanophone women artists working in surrealist traditions in responding to the traumatic events and legacies of the Second World War.

The postsocialist contemporary joins a growing body of scholarship debating the definition and nature of contemporary art.

This novel is considered the last novel by the writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, as he decided, after the death of his son Alexei in an epileptic fit, to search for a way out of his tragedy.

This book is the first major study exploring archival and memorial practices of the Soviet unofficial culture.

Cases of citation presents a history of artists who incorporated literary references into their work from the 1960s onwards.

This book is the first major study exploring archival and memorial practices of the Soviet unofficial culture.

The artistic strategies explored in this book are essential tools in fostering emancipatory consciousness in marginalized communities.

This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context.

Do the sacred decorations of a Florentine Renaissance chapel-saints, symbols, and scriptural stories-hold personal and political meanings?

This book examines the intersections of silence with immersive arts and experiences.

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The Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 and the ensuing communist regime have often been portrayed as a man's revolution, with women as bystanders or even victims.

Although the focus is on geopolitics rather than regional geography, the aim of the book is to provide a reorientation, while maintaining an essential continuity with W.

Although the focus is on geopolitics rather than regional geography, the aim of the book is to provide a reorientation, while maintaining an essential continuity with W.

The wood engravers' self-portrait tells the story of the image-making firm Dalziel Brothers, investigating and interpreting a unique archive from the British Museum.

This collection offers a response to the view that migration disrupts national heritage.

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Die erste umfassende Untersuchung barocker Perlfiguren – außergewöhnliche, fantasievolle Werke der Goldschmiedekunst, in die große, unregelmäßig verwachsene Perlen eingearbeitet wurden.

The 1970s is often considered the period that design forgot.

This is the origin story of Nashville's surging contemporary art scene told by the ones who were there before anyone else.

Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French women's movement or Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes (1970-81).