The Arts: treatments and subjects

Since the Shah went into exile and the Islamic Republic was established in 1979 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the very idea of monarchy in Iran has been contentious.

Although a large majority of believers agree that they should share their faith, most report that they, in fact, do not.

These three essays were inspired by the Samothracian discoveries.

John McPhee's The Ransom of Russian Art is a suspenseful, chilling, and fascinating report on a covert operation like no other.

Images can be studied in many ways--as symbols, displays of artistic genius, adjuncts to texts, or naturally occurring phenomena like reflections and dreams.

With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the region's unique natural character.

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

War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and contemporary art.

A helpful guide for anybody wishing to impress by bringing some Asian flair to a dinner party.

How did art reform fit into the many initiatives for social and cultural change that contributed to the New Cultural Movement that transformed the Chinese cultural landscape during the Republican period?

Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again.

A study of Kusama''s era-defining work, a “sublime, miraculous field of phalluses,” against the background of abstraction, eroticism, sexuality, and softness.

Shaping the Future includes a global overview of girl child issues stemming from gender discrimination and explores the root causes for this disparity.

For sociologists, making, distributing, and using art and cultural products constitute social practices, yet, sociologists disagree on how to investigate these practices.

William Bouguereau (1825-1905) war ein Vertreter des französischen akademischen Klassizismus und des klassischen Realismus.

In Indenture Aesthetics, Jordache A.

This book is the first full-length study dedicated to French women Orientalist artists.

The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and architecture.

The 1970s is often considered the period that design forgot.

This book elaborates on the social and cultural phenomenon of national schools during the nineteenth century, via the less studied field of sculpture and using Belgium as a case study.

This edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today.

Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021From West African masquerades to Venetian carnivals and New York society galas, fancy dress has long been used to convey important social and political messages.

This book examines the artistic practices of a range of British-based artists of East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese) heritage to consider the social, political and cultural effects of migration or diaspora on their creative production.

Leonardo pasó los primeros años de su vida en Florencia, su madurez en Milán y los últimos tres años de su existencia en Francia.

Windows for the world explores the display and reception of nineteenth-century British stained glass in a secular exhibition context.

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

A celebrated young British artist uses her gift to convey the dignity and resilience of women survivors of violence in forgotten corners of the world.

Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions.

It introduces a religious dimension to the study of ethnic identity and globalization in the provinces of the Roman Empire.

The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art.

It has often been claimed that "e;monsters"e;--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times.

How might performance serve as a means for facing ubiquitous trauma and pain, in humans and ecologies?

Nobody ever said that oil painting was easy.

Gary Sutherland was a lapsed golfer, until he acquired his late dad's putter.

Critical texts and interviews that explore the drawings, animations, and theatrical work of the South African artist William Kentridge.

This book explores the fusion of myth, history and geography which leads to ideas of primitivism, and looks at their construction, interpretation and consumption in Western culture.

Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied.

The inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a century   Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast.

Artist Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), whose Russian Jewish family settled in Manhattan in 1912, was devoted to painting people in their everyday urban lives.

A beautifully illustrated, interdisciplinary look at the ceremonies and protocols of the dynastic court of Joseon KoreaRecording State Rites in Words and Images provides an engaging and in-depth exploration of the large corpus of court statutes compiled during the Joseon dynasty of Korea.

This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity.

'Full of gems .

This book reclaims Hegel's notion of the "e;end of art"e;-or, more precisely, of "e;art's past character"e;-not just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as a living critical and interpretive methodology.