This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century "e;Anti-Aesthetic"e; movement and the 21st-century "e;Beauty Revival"e; movement.
In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse.
In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse.
Church Beyond Walls tells inspiring, informative and occasionally funny stories of how a group of people took Christian spirituality outside of church buildings to engage a world increasingly uninterested in religion, God and faith.
Taken together, the chapters in this book outline a theory and a practice of painting ecstatic ordinarinesses in contemporary, diverse American queer life.
First published in 1917, On Collecting Japanese-Prints is meant to assist the amateur who has started a collection for the first time, or the person who, while not actually a collector, is sufficiently interested to read about the subject, yet finds the more exhaustive and advanced works thereon somewhat beyond them.
WINNER Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2025, Society of Architectural HistoriansWINNER Historians of British Art Book Award 2025 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800-1960Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible.
This book examines three exhibitions of contemporary art held at the Vienna Kunstlerhaus during the period of National Socialist rule and shows how each attempted to culturally erase elements anathema to Nazi ideology: the City, the Jewess and fin-de-siecle Vienna.
Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersections with cognate research areas.
First published in 1917, On Collecting Japanese-Prints is meant to assist the amateur who has started a collection for the first time, or the person who, while not actually a collector, is sufficiently interested to read about the subject, yet finds the more exhaustive and advanced works thereon somewhat beyond them.
This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.
This book examines three exhibitions of contemporary art held at the Vienna Kunstlerhaus during the period of National Socialist rule and shows how each attempted to culturally erase elements anathema to Nazi ideology: the City, the Jewess and fin-de-siecle Vienna.
The German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts.
Growing from 4 to 400 GenerationsWeve heard stories about disciple-making movements that are sweeping the globe, transforming the way people are coming to Christ in places like Asia, western Africa, and South America.
Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1896 account of the excavation, mainly, of tombs in the area around Ballas and Naqada on the edge of the Egyptian desert, 30 miles north of Thebes.
Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and perspectives excluded from the privileged and uncontested narrative of "e;isms.
Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition of Understanding Early Christian Art makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to students.
In Terracene Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror.
Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1896 account of the excavation, mainly, of tombs in the area around Ballas and Naqada on the edge of the Egyptian desert, 30 miles north of Thebes.
Der Expressionismus scheint als Bewegung uneingeschränkt mit Deutschland verbunden zu sein, sowohl im Hinblick auf Topoi der Bildenden Kunst als auch hinsichtlich ästhetischer Konventionen literarischer Werke.
Artists and the Practice of Agriculture maps out examples of artistic practices that engage with the aesthetics and politics of gathering food, growing edible and medicinal plants, and interacting with non-human collaborators.
This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic interventions can contribute to our understanding of human rights as a critical and embodied doing.
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Durer's depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outside his Western European milieu.
First published in 1967, Victorian Artists documents the painting of the Victorian period, that is, the period between the death of Constable and William IV in 1837, the first Post-Impressionist painting in 1910 and the end of an epoch in British painting.
Opens with several first-person anecdotes about the author's life as a practicing artist and a discussion of the intellectual lineage of his vision-based pedagogy.
The Temple University Aegean Symposium was an annual event from 1976 until 1985 sponsored by the Department of Art History at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.
Adjusting to a New World Missionaries must adjust to new cultures, learn languages, work as a team, maintain healthy relationships, and discern best ministry practices.
This textbook is a compilation of the author's more than 35 years of teaching and excavation experience in the field of Aegean Bronze Age art history and archaeology.
As the first monograph dedicated to Walter Gropius's activity in Britain, this book provides a comprehensive account of the Bauhaus founder's contributions to architecture and design while living in London between 1934 and 1937.
This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.
WINNER Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2025, Society of Architectural HistoriansWINNER Historians of British Art Book Award 2025 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800-1960Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible.
