History of art

Bringing together artists, curators, activists, academics, managers, and educators from around the world, this unique anthology examines the notion of ethics within socially engaged art.

Bringing together artists, curators, activists, academics, managers, and educators from around the world, this unique anthology examines the notion of ethics within socially engaged art.

Negative Aesthetics and Political Collapse in Eastern European and Balkan Cinema examines the theme of political collapse in select contemporary Eastern European and Balkan art cinema and documentaries from the late eighties to the present.

Partez a la decouverte du postmodernisme avec ce Grand Article Universalis !

En la historia de la cultura occidental, la consideracion de la enfermedad como tema de representacion se hace evidente con la llegada de la modernidad.

Seit Jahrtausenden faszinieren ungewöhnliche Himmelserscheinungen die Menschheit.

Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India.

This book examines Clarice Lispector's body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophical questions, which are placed in conversation with a range of theoretical frameworks and approaches.

Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India.

This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment.

The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system.

The incomparable play of light and color in Paul Cezanne's work was the foundation of his reputation as a forerunner of modernism.

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.

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.

Von Steinmännern, Käse und der Liebe zum (saisonalen) Leben in den Bergen: Acht Einblicke in Vorarlberger Alltäglichkeiten.

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.