The Arts: treatments and subjects

A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world.

The Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011 left Japan grappling with profound social, political, and environmental consequences.

The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of their lives, not least how they created and experienced works of art and the built environment.

Butoh – der avantgardistische Tanz der Dunkelheit – ist weit mehr als eine Kunstform.

Im Verbund mit Industrialisierung und Mobilisierung stellte die Urbanisierung eine der groten Herausforderungen fur das Leben und die Kunste in der Moderne dar.

Discover how Miamis local art community transformed the city into a hub of global artistic exchangeStep into the vibrant heartbeat of Miamis art scene during a transformative period in Miamis Art Boom.

Verschiedene Aspekte und Moglichkeiten im Umgang mit der NS-Geschichte anhand eines transdisziplinaren Beispiels.

How did objects move between places and people, and how did they reshape the Republic's arts, cultures and sciences?

The Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011 left Japan grappling with profound social, political, and environmental consequences.

Millions of paintings were produced in the Dutch Republic.

Incorporating over 250 illustrations, this is the first comprehensive study in English of French artist and caricaturist George Ferdinand Bigot (1860-1927) who, during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, was renowned in Japan but barely known in his own country.

Provenance research is so much more than a search for origin: It offers new perspectives on objects, collections, their histories, and the multifaceted relationships embedded within them.

The book is about how art arose; and how it became what we call art today.

The book is about how art arose; and how it became what we call art today.

Thinking Women represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century French and British art and visual culture.

Thinking Women represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century French and British art and visual culture.

In the Florentine basilica of San Miniato al Monte is a thirteenth-century marble zodiac.

French mercantile endeavors in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India were marked by novel intersections of aesthetics, science, and often violent commercialism.

Fear of death and disease preoccupied the European consciousness throughout the early modern era, becoming most acute at times of plague and epidemics.

This book examines Jacob van Ruisdael's treatment of five subjects-dunes, grainfields, ruins, rushing water, and woodlands-that recur throughout his career.

Fear of death and disease preoccupied the European consciousness throughout the early modern era, becoming most acute at times of plague and epidemics.

Did ordinary Italians have a 'Renaissance'?

This volume examines the emerging exhibition complex on Chinese art in early twentieth-century China, and from the mid-1950s onwards, the cultural politics involved in Asia with the exhibitions of traditional and modern Chinese art in Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Did ordinary Italians have a 'Renaissance'?

This book examines Jacob van Ruisdael's treatment of five subjects-dunes, grainfields, ruins, rushing water, and woodlands-that recur throughout his career.

This volume examines the emerging exhibition complex on Chinese art in early twentieth-century China, and from the mid-1950s onwards, the cultural politics involved in Asia with the exhibitions of traditional and modern Chinese art in Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

French mercantile endeavors in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India were marked by novel intersections of aesthetics, science, and often violent commercialism.

Focusing on one broadly representative figure, Francis Bedford, this study emphasizes how photographs operated to form and transmit cultural ideas and values.

The year 1997 was the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

This study examines the visual productions of the German Peasants' War - pamphlets, banners, and clothing - to argue for the disruptive and radical visual legacy in which hierarchies and modes of subjection were overturned.

This study examines the visual productions of the German Peasants' War - pamphlets, banners, and clothing - to argue for the disruptive and radical visual legacy in which hierarchies and modes of subjection were overturned.

The year 1997 was the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

This pioneering book offers fresh insights into the photographic work of the American artist Frederick Sommer, whose long career spanned the 20th century.

"e;The Language of Fiction"e; was the first book of criticism by the novelist David Lodge.

During much of the twentieth century, film was often assumed to be a 'flat' pictorial art, more often compared with painting and graphic media than with sculpture.

"e;The Language of Fiction"e; was the first book of criticism by the novelist David Lodge.

Focusing on one broadly representative figure, Francis Bedford, this study emphasizes how photographs operated to form and transmit cultural ideas and values.

During much of the twentieth century, film was often assumed to be a 'flat' pictorial art, more often compared with painting and graphic media than with sculpture.

This book explores the concept of estrangement from a psychoanalytic perspective, intertwining art and aesthetics to offer a paradigm of the aesthetic experience.

This book explores the concept of estrangement from a psychoanalytic perspective, intertwining art and aesthetics to offer a paradigm of the aesthetic experience.

In the Florentine basilica of San Miniato al Monte is a thirteenth-century marble zodiac.

This edited volume is centered on the production, discussion, and consumption of contemporary art in the post-Yugoslav space now.

This book explores the widespread fascination with world creation among early twentieth-century artists and examines those trends within the European avant-garde.

This book is the first academic study of contemporary feminist art in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

This book is the first academic study of contemporary feminist art in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

This book explores the widespread fascination with world creation among early twentieth-century artists and examines those trends within the European avant-garde.

Examining modern art vandalism across Europe and North America from 1970 to 2020, this book offers the first comprehensive sociological analysis of this phenomenon.

Examining modern art vandalism across Europe and North America from 1970 to 2020, this book offers the first comprehensive sociological analysis of this phenomenon.

This pioneering book offers fresh insights into the photographic work of the American artist Frederick Sommer, whose long career spanned the 20th century.

Focusing on masks and faces as figures and objects that carry ethical and political meanings, this volume examines the scientific, cultural, visual, and philosophical histories and traditions in which they are imbricated and which allow them to gather force and to become central to how human relationships are made.