History of art

A fun and stunningly illustrated introduction to the art of linear optimizationLinear optimization is a powerful modeling method for discovering the best solution to a problem among a set of available alternatives.

Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens uses literary sources and archaeological and iconographic evidence to investigate children's identities throughout the ninth to fourth centuries BCE in Athens and Attica, the city's surrounding hinterland.

From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lamp, the world in which we live has been profoundly influenced for over a century by the work of American designers.

Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980, Fifth Edition, offers students and readers an introduction to recent art.

Some artists have an inclination towards violence, with art helping to mitigate or redirect their destructive energy.

Some artists have an inclination towards violence, with art helping to mitigate or redirect their destructive energy.

Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history.

Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history.

Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens uses literary sources and archaeological and iconographic evidence to investigate children's identities throughout the ninth to fourth centuries BCE in Athens and Attica, the city's surrounding hinterland.

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity.

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity.

Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall, important German theater artists have created plays and productions about unification.

In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for constructing scientific achievement as a counternarrative in popular discourse about Islam.

This book presents case studies that analyze the diplomatic uses and functions of robes, furniture, weapons, tools, jewelry, paintings, sculptures, books, food, and other material objects in early modern inter-cultural diplomatic encounters in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific world.

This book presents case studies that analyze the diplomatic uses and functions of robes, furniture, weapons, tools, jewelry, paintings, sculptures, books, food, and other material objects in early modern inter-cultural diplomatic encounters in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific world.

100 Days is a collection of one hundred poems, each marked not by sequence but by memory — echoes of thought, heartbeats caught in ink, truths and lies once believed.

Ronald Lockett (19651998) stands out among southern artists in the late twentieth century.

All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality.

This monograph explores British Conflict Related Metal Boxes (CRMBs) and the memories they contain that come directly from, or are influenced by, the First World War.

This monograph explores British Conflict Related Metal Boxes (CRMBs) and the memories they contain that come directly from, or are influenced by, the First World War.

Dollhouses were a notable outlet for women in the Netherlands as collectors during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Collecting the Now offers a new, in-depth look at the economic forces and institutional actors that have shaped the outlines of postwar art history, with a particular focus on American art, 1960-1990.

All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality.

Crying holds a privileged place in conversations around emotions as an expression of authentic feeling.

Dollhouses were a notable outlet for women in the Netherlands as collectors during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Ronald Lockett (19651998) stands out among southern artists in the late twentieth century.

Crying holds a privileged place in conversations around emotions as an expression of authentic feeling.

Collecting the Now offers a new, in-depth look at the economic forces and institutional actors that have shaped the outlines of postwar art history, with a particular focus on American art, 1960-1990.

Im Mittelpunkt dieser Untersuchung steht die umfassende Analyse der Seebilder Jacob van Ruisdaels.

Das Buch stellt erstmals die architekturhistorischen Deutungen der mittelalterlichen Kathedrale zusammen, welche die Forschung in den letzten rund 150 Jahren erarbeitet hat.

Wie lasst sich politische Gewalt in literarischen Texten darstellen - und welche Formen von Widerstand kann Literatur selbst hervorbringen?

Das Buch stellt erstmals die architekturhistorischen Deutungen der mittelalterlichen Kathedrale zusammen, welche die Forschung in den letzten rund 150 Jahren erarbeitet hat.

Die Autorin befasst sich mit dem Wirken von Vladimir Boudnik (1924 - 1968), der zu den bedeutendsten tschechischen Kunstlern der zweiten Halfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts gehort.

Die Autorin befasst sich mit dem Wirken von Vladimir Boudnik (1924 - 1968), der zu den bedeutendsten tschechischen Kunstlern der zweiten Halfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts gehort.

This book uses the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer to paint a picture of a creative, communal and hopeful modernity once promised, but almost forgotten behind ‘end of history’ and ‘clash of civilizations’ predictions.

This book uses the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer to paint a picture of a creative, communal and hopeful modernity once promised, but almost forgotten behind ‘end of history’ and ‘clash of civilizations’ predictions.

MAHA (Make America Human Again): The Music Album Scorebook is a hybrid art book, songbook, and musical archive documenting the album Make America Human Again.

In Transplanetary Americas, Robb Hernandez launches a propulsive pathway for Latinx cultural studies by exploring how the modern space race has driven artists to look upward and attune to expressions derived from the solar system and beyond.

Understanding the world of art-particularly antiquities and archaeological artifacts-requires tracing how objects are removed from the ground, displaced by conflict or economic hardship, and ultimately reappear in the international art market.

Self-portraiture is a singular form within the broad field of first-person film and video - not so much an account of the filmmaker's intimate life as a representation of the artist at a given instant.

Self-portraiture is a singular form within the broad field of first-person film and video - not so much an account of the filmmaker's intimate life as a representation of the artist at a given instant.

En todas las areas, las personas con voluntad de cambio y desarrollo social utilizan las formas artisticas y la creatividad para conmover la esfera publica, atraer la atencion, tomar poder sobre los espacios urbanos y generar nuevos lenguajes y voces sociales.

En todas las areas, las personas con voluntad de cambio y desarrollo social utilizan las formas artisticas y la creatividad para conmover la esfera publica, atraer la atencion, tomar poder sobre los espacios urbanos y generar nuevos lenguajes y voces sociales.

The word parasite evokes nearness and feeding: the Greek parasitos is one who eats at the table of another .

The word parasite evokes nearness and feeding: the Greek parasitos is one who eats at the table of another .

Scottish artist William Johnstone (1897–1981) has been significantly overlooked in the histories of British modernism, yet his role as the progressive Principal of Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and subsequently the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London helped shape the the work and careers of artists such as Richard Hamilton, Victor Pasmore, Nigel Henderson, Alan Davie and Eduardo Paolozzi.

Scottish artist William Johnstone (1897–1981) has been significantly overlooked in the histories of British modernism, yet his role as the progressive Principal of Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and subsequently the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London helped shape the the work and careers of artists such as Richard Hamilton, Victor Pasmore, Nigel Henderson, Alan Davie and Eduardo Paolozzi.

Understanding the world of art-particularly antiquities and archaeological artifacts-requires tracing how objects are removed from the ground, displaced by conflict or economic hardship, and ultimately reappear in the international art market.