History of art

The senses in interior design examines how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors.

"e;Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

A stunning collection from Governor General's Award winner Roy Miki, Flow presents all of this critically acclaimed writer's poetry - from his collections Saving Face, Random Access File, Surrender, There, and Mannequin Rising - as well as a substantial chapter of new, previously unpublished works.

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Italian graphic design offers a new perspective on the subject by exploring the emergence and articulation of graphic design practice, from the interwar period through to the appearance of an international graphic design discourse in the 1960s.

The architecture of social reform explores the fascinating intellectual origins of modern architecture's obsession with domesticity.

David Alfaro Siqueiros was perhaps the most important communist painter of the twentieth century.

Transcultural things examines four sets of artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: maps pointing to Poland-Lithuania's roots in the supposedly 'Oriental' land of Sarmatia, portrayals of fashions that purport to trace Polish culture back to a distant and revered past, Ottomanesque costumes worn by Polish ambassadors and carpets labelled as Polish despite their foreign provenance.

The painter and printmaker Albrecht Durer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance.

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).

Shortlisted for the 2025 Wolfson History PrizeLonglisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-fictionA Times Best History Book of the Year 2024'Every page glittering with insight.

This collection of Bertrand Russell's essays is available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1961.

What is design in modern China?

This is the first volume to focus on the diverse permutations of international surrealist cinema after the canonical interwar period.

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

Step into the world of Renaissance genius and uncover the secrets behind the most celebrated portrait in art history.

The ultimate reference on the global art market - now available as a newly revised six-volume box set.

Like many of their male peers, women artists have used their chosen mediums to explore and express their reactions to the violence of war, which they frequently experienced firsthand.

Like many of their male peers, women artists have used their chosen mediums to explore and express their reactions to the violence of war, which they frequently experienced firsthand.

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From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of scienceScience is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world, from ideas about our evolutionary past to our conceptions of the vast expanses of space and the smallest particles of matter.

This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to the cultural transmission of Romanticism.

The architecture of social reform explores the fascinating intellectual origins of modern architecture's obsession with domesticity.

By the late 1960s cartographic formats and spatial information had become a regular feature in many conceptual artworks.

This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender, and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art.