The Arts: treatments and subjects

This book visualises key moments in history where ordinary people have risen up and fought governments, corporations, even empires.

A collection of papers - revised or previously unpublished - about the history, institutions, and literature of Boiotia, by a leading expert on the region.

How art played a central role in the design of America's racial enterprise-and how contemporary artists resist it.

This revised and updated edition addresses the international history and practice of design from the 17th century to the present day.

Explore the magical world of moss, with this fully-illustrated and comprehensive guide.

Since the democratisation of the clothing industry in the early 19th century, buyers have become increasingly disconnected from the creative and human aspects of the production of clothing.

Winner of the AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) Book Prize 2024The Art Gallery on Stage is the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage and to discuss how playwrights have begun to regard it as inspiration, location, focus or theme in an ever-more intense game of cross-fertilization.

We live in an age of the mobile image.

This anthology honors Lawrence Nees' expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Delaware.

This collection explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision.

How a famous painting opens a window into the life, times, and philosophy of Rene DescartesIn the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher.

Die Geschäfte der Galerie Gerstenberger in Chemnitz waren charakteristisch für den Handel mit Kunst auf dem auch abseits der Metropolen regen und umfangreichen Kunstmarkt des 20.

The power exercised by the mother on the son in Mediterranean cultures has been amply studied.

This book explores the relationship between collecting Chinese ceramics, interior design and display in Britain through the eyes of collectors, designers and tastemakers during the years leading to, during and following the Second World War.

Combining the talents of two renowned artists, Margaret Eggleton and Denis John-Naylor, this is a detailed, comprehensive guide to drawing trees and flowers.

This book examines ancient figurines from several world areas to address recurring challenges in the interpretation of prehistoric art.

Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence.

Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the contested aspects of arabesque while exploring its penchant for crossing artistic and cultural boundaries to create new forms.

This book aims to provide readers with a clear and comprehensive picture of the development of Chinese art.

Offering historical identity fortified by the presence of women belonging to the various areas of creative and intellectual life, this book allows readers to understand greater contexts of their identity.

This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments.

The course of German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought.

Theory for Art History provides a concise and clear introduction to key contemporary theorists, including their lives, major works, and transformative ideas.

Luise Straus-Ernst, die »Muse der Dadaisten« – das dramatische Leben der ersten Frau von Max ErnstDer Kunstwelt ist sie bekannt als erste Frau des Malers Max Ernst, als Muse der Dadaisten und Surrealisten.

Born in Hungary in 1928, Gabor Szilasi is one of Quebec's best-known living photographers.

Access the glossary of Tibetan terms.

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Over the past few decades, the Nordic region has witnessed large shifts in its political, social and international outlook.

Waldbilder der Frühen Neuzeit sind häufig als Ausdruck eines neuen Naturempfindens und als Vorbote einer romantischen Naturästhetik verstanden worden.

This book examines the legacy of international interwar modernism as a case of cultural transfer through the travels of a central motif: the square.

What is the work of art?

During the early modern period there was a natural correspondence between how artists might benefit from the knowledge of mathematics and how mathematicians might explore, through advances in the study of visual culture, new areas of enquiry that would uncover the mysteries of the visible world.

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Longlisted for the Historians of British Art (HBA) Book Prize 2023Between 1750 and 1840, the home took on unprecedented social and emotional significance.

A fresh take on the group of artists known as the Pictures Generation, reinterpreting their work as haunted by the history of fascism, the threat of its return, and the effects of its recurring representation in postwar American culture.

Discover anew the herstory of art that Publishers Weekly calls illuminating and Foreword Reviews calls spirited for an enlightening art history read.

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This volume is an anthology of current groundbreaking research on social practice art.

This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today.

This book reinterprets Wifredo Lam's work with particular attention to its political implications, focusing on how these implications emerge from the artist's critical engagement with 20th-century anthropology.

Decorate your desk, home, wedding or next get-together with these professional looking paper blossoms!

Waterford Crystal is the first ever fully illustrated history of Ireland's most iconic cut-glass manufacturer, its name synonymous with high-end glassmaking throughout the world.

In Another Aesthetics Is Possible Jennifer Ponce de Leon examines the roles that art can play in the collective labor of creating and defending another social reality.

A Church-Based Missions StrategyIn world missions, the author proposes, the local church is the biblical sending body through which missionaries serve.

The most renowned travel story of the Middle Ages has never lost its allure.

The art of the Ukiyo-e reflected the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation which, when it became accessible to the West, significantly influenced a number of European artists.

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The Being With course is an introduction to Christianity with a difference.