Before the tragedy of the Holocaust, many of the leading art and antiques dealers across Europe were Jewish, establishing dynamic cross-Channel, international and transatlantic networks.
The author investigates the points of contact between literature, visual arts and feminist criticism by offering fresh readings of selected Romantic and Victorian poems about women and a discussion of their wide-ranging visual history - a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study.
Olga von Boznańska (1865–1940) und Otolia Gräfin Kraszewska (1859–1945) gehören der ersten Generation von Künstlerinnen an, die professionell tätig waren und damit auch teilweise ihren Lebensunterhalt selbst bestritten.
In William Blake's 'America a Prophecy (Illustrated Edition)', the author delves into the complex themes of revolution and spiritual awakening, set against the backdrop of the American Revolution.
Wurden Rahmengestaltungen in der Forschung zur mittelalterlichen Buchkunst bisher vor allem in Bezug auf das Seitenlayout diskutiert, widmet sich Kristin Böse dem Verhältnis von rahmender Seitengestaltung und dem Buch als Ganzem.
What I hope this timely and fascinating book does is to take the reader beyond the lurid interest in art by society's outcasts, to discovering the hugely positive role art plays in prison life - Grayson Perry.
A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art.
This edited book contests that if design's raison d'etre is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it - the world-for-us.
Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like Garcia Marquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante.
A major reassessment of the methods and meaning of impressionismAt pivotal moments in his career, Claude Monet would go out with a fellow artist, plant his easel beside his friend's, and paint the same scene.
This book explores a spectrum of contemporary photographic practices across the fields of image-making, curating, archiving, teaching, community development and activism that have envisioned photography as ontologically and ethically collaborative.
A critical study of the life of art criticism in the 1970s, this volume traces the evolution of art and art criticism in a pivotal period in post-war British history.
A critical study of the life of art criticism in the 1970s, this volume traces the evolution of art and art criticism in a pivotal period in post-war British history.
A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of printIn process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact.
Der Winter hat die Stadt Krefeld fest im Griff, als das idyllische Studentenleben von Johannes Wassen und seinen Mitstudierenden abrupt durch den Mord an einem Kommilitonen beendet wird.
"Vergnügliches" wird gemeinhin nicht als eine prototypische Kategorie des Didaktischen betrachtet und umso reizvoller erscheint es uns, diesen Zusammenhang (neu) zu denken.
This book explores a spectrum of contemporary photographic practices across the fields of image-making, curating, archiving, teaching, community development and activism that have envisioned photography as ontologically and ethically collaborative.
This edited book contests that if design's raison d'etre is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it - the world-for-us.
La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499.
This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship.
La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499.
In 1944, Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) wrote his first letter to fellow painter Mark Tobey (1890-1976) after seeing Tobey's first solo show at the Willard Gallery in New York.
This book examines the many functions of paper in the fine art and aesthetics of the early twentieth-century modernist or historic avant-garde (Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Constructivism and many more).
Der Band ist Jutta Held (1933–2007) und Norbert Schneider (1945–2019), der Gründerin und dem langjährigen Herausgeber von »Kunst und Politik«, gewidmet.
In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention this has made in the discipline.
