The Arts: treatments and subjects

Si le texte évangélique de l’Apocalypse est une des thématiques les plus représentées en histoire de l’art, ce n’est pas tant pour faire allégeance au texte sacré que pour sa représentation : celle de l’humanité en tant que telle.

In this work aggression and conflict in man and other primates are interpreted in the light of evolutionary biology and game theory models.

The expressions of American hostility toward France after 9/11 are not new - Franco-American relations in the early twentieth century were also difficult, characterized by the same antagonistic depictions of the other's culture.

Jürgen Kaumkötter zeigt, welche große Bedeutung das als "Selbstbildnis mit Judenpass" bekannt gewordene Werk von Felix Nussbaum für die Holocaust-Kunst hat.

This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the building's Plateresque facade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed ideas about the individual and communal cultural identities in sixteenth-century Yucatan.

What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe?

The Canada Council for the Arts is the country's largest provider of grants for artists and arts organizations, benefiting not only writers, visual artists, performers, and musicians but Canadian culture as a whole.

A pioneer among Palestinian artists, Sophie Halaby was the first Arab woman to study art in Paris, subsequently living independently as a professional painter in Jerusalem throughout her life.

From Francis Alys and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and the privatization of public space.

Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), the unconventional and controversial painter of Belorussian origin, combines influences of classic European painting with Post-Impressionism and Expressionism.

Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) gehörte zu den bekanntesten Kinderbuchillustratoren seiner Generation.

Icon painting has reached its zenith in Ukraine between the 11th and 18th centuries.

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

Drawing from the work of Dewey, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, this book aims to relate a series of philosophic insights to the practice of engaging in design research for change.

This book interprets the fiber art and craft-inspired sculpture by eight US and Latin American women artists whose works incite embodied affective experience.

Anarchic street performances in late-1950s Japan; inauguration of the first Happenings in Antwerp and charging of the "e;magic circle"e; in Amsterdam; Bauhaus Situationiste and anti-national art exchanges, networks and communes.

The first history of indigenous photography in the Middle EastThe birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem-photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region.

Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage.

First published in 1998, this volume explores the expanding wave of a new kind of museums of contemporary art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The daughter of Haitian journalist and pro-democracy activist Jean Leopold Dominique, who was assassinated in 2000, Jan J.

Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice.

Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art.

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests.

This book advances an enactivist theory of aesthetics through the study of inscrutable artworks that challenge us to think because we do not know what to think about them.

This volume provides a new perspective on the emergence of the modern study of antiquity, Altertumswissenschaft, in eighteenth-century Germany through an exploration of debates that arose over the work of the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann between his death in 1768 and the end of the century.

The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries.

Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida.

Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps.

Awakening the Hermit Kingdom: Pioneer American Women Missionaries in Korea gives a focused look at the long-ignored subject, the pioneer women missionaries to the Hermit Kingdom, as the early missionaries often called Korea.

The synthetic proposition examines the impact of Civil Rights, Black Power, the student, feminist and sexual-liberty movements on conceptualism and its legacies in the United States between the late 1960s and the 1990s.

Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South recounts the enormous influence of artists in the evolution of six southern cities-Atlanta, Charleston, New Orleans, Louisville, Austin, and Miami-from 1865 to 1950.

Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.

Explores the literary texts produced during Byzantine Iconoclasm and their use as ideological tools by the main political circles.

Serial Drawing offers a timely and rigorous exploration of a relatively little-researched art form.

This facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie’s extensive catalog of buttons and scarabs describes and illustrates over 1500 examples, along with an appendix on additions to the ‘Scarabs and Cylinders’ volume published earlier.

During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail.

A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.

Missionaries, while being prepared in the Bible, often receive little training in understanding the world in which we live and some experience great hardship out in the field as a result.

Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen observer of postmodern art and lesbian feminist life who challenged how dance, art, and women can and should be seen.

In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gerin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, theatre, cinema, and the circus under Lenin and Stalin.

Taken together, the chapters in this book outline a theory and a practice of painting ecstatic ordinarinesses in contemporary, diverse American queer life.

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America.

To walk through Florence is to step into one of the most remarkable histories of any European city.

This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility-actual, social, virtual, and imaginary-as related to visual culture.

First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Nestor Garcia Canclini's deft assessment of contemporary art.

*WINNER OF THE NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author*A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneersfamous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, and morewith biographical reflections, all created and curated by an award-winning graphic designer.