History of art

Using five case studies of contemporary art, this book uses ideas of systems and dispersion to understand identity and experience in late capitalism.

Using five case studies of contemporary art, this book uses ideas of systems and dispersion to understand identity and experience in late capitalism.

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORYThe boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men.

Having procured a cult-like following in the modern field of design, this extraordinary volume is brimming with over 100 intricate typeface examples, all skilfully produced and vibrantly coloured.

This book explores the historical and contemporary connections between art and politics in Colombia.

Explores the Safavid and Ottoman empires through the lens of gifts.

'I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland' Yayoi KusamaNonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet.

**WINNER OF THE SALTIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024****WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 | NON-FICTION****SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**A beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.

Math is an essential component of the interior design profession.

Adopting the perspective of anthropology of art and combining it with global academic insights, this book helps the readers to recognize that "e;history is, in great measure, the record of human activity which spreads from the local to the regional, from the regional to the global, and from the global to the universal.

This newly edited volume, Bali Nyonga Today covers about thirty years of (1985-2015) developments in Bali Nyonga, Cameroon.

In 2016, a landscape painting of the source of the Lison river in France was discovered at the University of Pennsylvania and was immediately suspected of being the work of Gustave Courbet.

This volume provides an interdisciplinary history of the Gothic, from antiquity up to the end of the long eighteenth century.

¿Cuál es el sentido del desarrollo histórico?

El objetivo de este libro es reflexionar sobre cómo se manifestó artísticamente el muralismo en Bogotá, y en qué condiciones fueron producidas las imágenes que dan cuenta de él.

Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this book looks at the place of the poor within the multi-layered hierarchies of Byzantine society using evidence from archaeology, art, architecture, as well as narrative, theological, and legal texts.

En una Europa convulsionada por la guerra, un grupo de personas, en su mayoría no militares, se lanza al rescate del patrimonio cultural de la humanidad.

A study of the representation of education in material culture, at a period of considerable change and growth.

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding.

The life and cult of Edward the Confessor are here fully reappraised.

New insights into inscribed and stone monuments from across Europe in the early middle ages.

This book explores crucial moments in the emergence of feminine culture in Colombia through the work of ground-breaking artist Debora Arango, best-selling novelist Laura Restrepo, and three generations of documentary filmmakers.

This book explores the historical and contemporary connections between art and politics in Colombia.

Adopting the perspective of anthropology of art and combining it with global academic insights, this book helps the readers to recognize that "e;history is, in great measure, the record of human activity which spreads from the local to the regional, from the regional to the global, and from the global to the universal.

Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art.

This study examines the theories of postmodern visuality and representation and identifies concepts that resonate with Orthodox theology and iconography.

Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind.

Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind.

Post-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of the best art history writings of the Post-Impressionist period.

Der Band widmet sich aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive den vielfältigen Funktion und Bedeutung von Wissen in der Fantastik: Ob geheim, spezifisch oder allgemein, lassen sich zentrale Motive des Wissens und der Wissensinhalte bestimmen?

How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia.

When it comes to high-level journalism, you're either "e;in the know"e; or you're out of business.

This book is about avant-garde art in Shanghai in the 1980s which challenges the narrative in the current discourse on the appearance of contemporary art in China.

This book analyzes how contemporary visual art can visualize environmental crisis.

A book about how the espionage was done to the Lord, Jesus, Holy Spirits and We The People.

Leela sings while cutting grass on the hill-side.

More recently a post-modern world has emphasised the aggressive and destructive march of this age of reason.

"e;A grand yarn of twisty deceit, involving prestigious dupes and scads of money, with a sensational trial at the finish.

How does a visual artist manage to narrate a story, which has a sequential and therefore temporal progression, using a static medium consisting solely of spatial sign elements and, what is more, in a single image?

The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art.

Desde niño, Álvaro Delgado Vélez acompañaba a su padre, Manuel Delgado Hernández, a seguir de cerca los aconteceres de la sociedad cartagenera con una "máquina de retratar" en su manos.

The story of art is not always the story of art-historical 'isms' and complex academic debate.

Let Your Faith Be Moved by the MasterpiecesArt becomes a masterpiece when it stands the test of time and challenges its viewers to see the world from a new perspective.

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratological perspective.

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratological perspective.

Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon-and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselvesIn The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noe explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.

In the 1950's, Berlin had come under four-power occupation while still struggling to recover from the war.

In this book, Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY.

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs and buildings were removed or changed after countries' independence.