A bold new interpretation of two northern Renaissance mastersIn this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its polar opposite: the depiction of an enemy hell-bent on destroying us.
He was the son of a citizen in comfortable circumstances, and had been, in Vasari's words, "e;instructed in all such things as children are usually taught before they choose a calling.
Der selbst ernannte Wortführer der 1905 in Dresden gegründeten Künstlergruppe Die Brücke, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, war eine Schlüsselfigur des deutschen Expressionismus.
Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion.
Born near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1815, Domenico Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plaster casts in nineteenth-century Britain.
Due to the phylogenetic relationship and close genetic and biological similarities with humans, non-human primates (NHP) are regularly used in biomedical and behavioural research.
In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings.
Connu pour la subtilité de ses toiles pointillistes, Georges Seurat (1859-1891) était un peintre unifiant l’art et la science, qui obtenait des résultats exceptionnels.
The smoothly metallic portraits, nudes and still lifes of Tamara de Lempicka encapsulate the spirit of Art Deco and the Jazz Age, and reflect the elegant and hedonistic life-style of a wealthy, glamorous and privileged elite in Paris between the two World Wars.
Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts interrogates the politics of space expressed via womxn's artistic practices, which prioritise solidarity and collaboration across borders, imagining attentive geographies of difference.
Pieter Bruegel, l'Ancien (près de Breda, 1525 – Bruxelles, 1569)Pieter Bruegel fut le premier membre important d'une famille d'artistes, actifs durant quatre générations.
This is an art book on the politics of urban conflict based around artist Stan Douglas' stunning photo installation of the same name, depicting a violent confrontation in 1971 between police and Vancouver's counterculture known as the Gastown Riot.
Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches.
Rigorously and objectively examines the evolving context within which great ape and gibbon habitats are increasingly interfacing with extractive industries.
Marc Chagall nació en el seno de una familia judía sumamente estricta, para la cual la prohibición de la representación de la figura humana tenía la fuerza de un dogma.
Paintings, magisterial and universal, that capture the essence of a vibrant African American communityIn his art Jonathan Green paints the world of his childhood and an ode to a people imbued with a profound respect for the dignity and value of others-the Gullah people of the South Carolina barrier islands.
Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle-faced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault.
The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists.
This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist.
