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.
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.
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.
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.
This pioneering book offers fresh insights into the photographic work of the American artist Frederick Sommer, whose long career spanned the 20th century.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining the ways in which films can promote students' historical understanding while also addressing the potential drawbacks to using film.
The first substantial Mexican colonial art historiography in English, this book examines the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico as a symptom of the development of modern museum practice in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico City.
A comprehensive exploration of the evolutions, innovations, and legacies of French art from the late eighteenth-century to the present Charting the artistic eras from the transformative upheavals of the French Revolution to the dynamic global intersections of contemporary art in the 21st century, A Companion to French Art, 1789 to the Present provides an unparalleled analysis of French art.
This book is about machines: those that have been actualized, fantastical imaginal machines, to those deployed as metaphorical devices to describe complex social processes.
This study presents the first history of the South African national pavilion at the Venice Biennale since it first participated in 1950 up until its contemporary pavilions.
This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining the ways in which films can promote students' historical understanding while also addressing the potential drawbacks to using film.
This book is about machines: those that have been actualized, fantastical imaginal machines, to those deployed as metaphorical devices to describe complex social processes.
This study presents the first history of the South African national pavilion at the Venice Biennale since it first participated in 1950 up until its contemporary pavilions.
This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining the ways in which films can promote students' historical understanding while also addressing the potential drawbacks to using film.
