History of art

When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "e;who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it.

This handsomely illustrated book is a welcome addition to the history of women during America's Gilded Age.

What did sex mean to the ancient Romans?

Of the six Impressionist painters whose first exhibition scandalized and fascinated Paris in 1874, Berthe Morisot was the only woman.

Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage.

Skin in the Game follows on from the acclaimed fieldwork diary, The Metabolic Museum.

Seit der Moderne steht die Kunst für Freiheit, Provokation und Mut.

Seit der Moderne steht die Kunst für Freiheit, Provokation und Mut.

Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work.

When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "e;who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it.

This handsomely illustrated book is a welcome addition to the history of women during America's Gilded Age.

What did sex mean to the ancient Romans?

Of the six Impressionist painters whose first exhibition scandalized and fascinated Paris in 1874, Berthe Morisot was the only woman.

In the fully rewritten third edition of this classic text, Nicholas Mirzoeff introduces visual culture as visual activism, or activating the visible.

In the fully rewritten third edition of this classic text, Nicholas Mirzoeff introduces visual culture as visual activism, or activating the visible.

Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 1300-1800 probes the significance of trees in religious iconography of Western art.

Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of interior design and interior spaces from 1700 to 1850.

Plongez-vous dans le monde fascinant des samouraïs avec « Le grand âge du samouraï – Le long voyage du guerrier du Japon ancien aux temps modernes ».

In Beyond the Sovereign Self Grant H.

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance.

A history of Germans' attempts to transform society through art in an age of revolution.

Focusing on the 'postinternet' art of the 2010s, this volume explores the widespread impact of recent internet culture on the formal and conceptual concerns of contemporary art.

Focusing on the 'postinternet' art of the 2010s, this volume explores the widespread impact of recent internet culture on the formal and conceptual concerns of contemporary art.

This is a visually stunning superb collection of artwork depicting British explorers and their journeys over the centuries.

Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795 brings to life women's unique and extravagant fashions of 1785-1795 in a beautifully illustrated and accessible way.

This book explores histories which have only recently been rediscovered by artists and researchers.

Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new understanding of classical architecture in the Asian colonial context.

In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression.

Whether a smoky portrait of a coal mine or a sweeping shot of workers building an immense dam, photographs of established and emerging industries fundamentally shaped the visual culture and politics of South Asia in the decades after independence.

Der Band nimmt erstmals den spätantiken Klerus der italischen Halbinsel in seiner Gesamtheit in den Blick.

Reveals Barcelona's artistic legacy, featuring renowned artists, contemporary creators, and essential tips for an immersive art experience in the city.

This book explores the author's ten-year ethnographic journey in different locations in Shanghai.

Waldbilder der Frühen Neuzeit sind häufig als Ausdruck eines neuen Naturempfindens und als Vorbote einer romantischen Naturästhetik verstanden worden.

This book contains everything you need to know about suits, from the traditional designs of the early 1900s, to innovative contemporary variations.

Von der Galluspforte bis zur Performance-Kunst, von Hans Holbein bis zu Jean Tinguely – in 24 Essays nimmt die Kunsthistorikerin Jana Lucas die Leserinnen und Leser mit auf eine Reise durch die Basler Kunstgeschichte vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart.

This book explores the improbable rise of medical hypnotism in Victorian Britain and its subsequent assimilation and neglect.

In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression.

A history of Germans' attempts to transform society through art in an age of revolution.

An entirely new perspective on Byzantine art and culture through the lens of secular artA winged centaur with the spotted body of a leopard playing a lute; a naked man with an animal head; a goat-footed Pan; a four-bodied lion; sphinxes and hippocamps.

Based on an extensive and very meticulous study of different archives and the evaluation of original, previously unpublished, archival material, this book highlights the key aspects and trends of the European and American art markets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

An entirely new perspective on Byzantine art and culture through the lens of secular artA winged centaur with the spotted body of a leopard playing a lute; a naked man with an animal head; a goat-footed Pan; a four-bodied lion; sphinxes and hippocamps.

An important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht DurerAlbrecht Durer's depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered by many to be among his most perplexing images.

This book explores the author's ten-year ethnographic journey in different locations in Shanghai.

Brilliant and controversial, art critic Sadakichi Hartmann wrote copiously about American and European art and the shaping of American culture during the decades from 1890 to 1910.

This is a visually stunning superb collection of artwork depicting British explorers and their journeys over the centuries.

Through a combination of theory, practice, and a range of interdisciplinary case studies, this book expands how we define and think about the critical role and relationship between design and emergencies.