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Volumes I and II bring together all of Irving Lavin s studies aside from those on Gian Lorenzo Bernini. They range from ......more
Pottery tells us about religion, daily life, humor, trade, sex, folklore and creativity. Bearing the imprint of their ma......more
This popular textbook serves as a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates in art history. Offering......more
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The 19th-century ocean world inspired a multifaceted material discourse that intersected with scientific exploration, co......more
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- One of the oldest museums in Poland - Includes paintings, drawings and prints by European masters from the end of the ......more
Eminent art historian Charles C. Eldredge brings together top scholars to celebrate forgotten artists and create a more ......more
From the first contacts between European conquerors and the peoples of the Americas, objects were exchanged and treasure......more
- Accessible highlights tour of this renowned museum - Rich with explanations and insights by the museum’s director - Fe......more
Unpublished writings of Colin Rowe--letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard--clarify his thinking on key concepts whil......more
Modern history is a history of aesthetizations - and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize ......more
Modern history is a history of aesthetizations - and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize ......more
This highly ambitious volume addresses the idea of "Jewish art and architecture" by posing and responding to a series of......more
The evolution of Alex Katz: nearly 80 years of restless innovation in portraiture and landscape across painting, works o......more
A homage to history’s little-known, underappreciated and lost heroes This volume gives pride of place to the secondary f......more
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A history of the evolving field of African art. This book examines the invention and development of African art as an ar......more
A history of the evolving field of African art. This book examines the invention and development of African art as an ar......more
This work in two volumes brings together all of Irving Lavin s studies aside from those on Gian Lorenzo Bernini. They ra......more
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A major new biography of legendary art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart Gardner Isabella Stewart Gardner (1......more
Exquisitely illustrated, the first thorough history of these astonishing Early Modern cabinets of curiosities. Kunstkamm......more
An engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created--a world that perishes or decays over t......more
Can studying an artist’s migration provide the key to unlocking a "global" history of art? The artistic biography of Mic......more
Jan L. de Jong studies how tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600) did not just function as a place to bury the dead, but......more
This book is an investigation of the widely overlooked photographic style of pictorialism in the American West between 1......more
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Aesthetic practices shape and are shaped by spatial formations. The essays in this volume survey configurations of space......more
This comprehensive reference dictionary, including some images of artwork and author photographs, reveals the exceptiona......more
This book reflects the most recent research devoted to a systematized perspective and a critical (re)construction of pre......more
This edited volume considers the many ways in which landscape (seen and unseen) is fundamental to place-making, colonial......more
The Hidden Language of Symbols covers a wide-ranging selection of visual culture and art under one unified theme: symbol......more
The alluring mermaids sighted by lonely mariners. The winged angels, by turns avenging and comforting, that abound in Ch......more
Tells the story of a Chinese intellectual community in London in the 1930s and ’40s. Chiang Yee and His Circle celebrate......more
This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally. The e......more
Why are the daughters and sons of Far East prisoners of war still captivated by the stories of their fathers? What is it......more
Every year millions of travelers arrive in Athens eager to catch a glimpse of the ancient city and savor its classical h......more
What makes a work of art a masterpiece? Discover the answers in the fascinating stories of how these artworks came to be......more
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Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this book is a beautifully designed collection of true stories about si......more
Spaces of Connoisseurship explores the ’who’, ’where’ and ’how’ of judging Old Master paintings in the nineteenth-centur......more
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For decades, artists and architects have struggled to relate to the Holocaust in visual form, resulting in memorials tha......more
One of the nation’s top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing the greatest......more
A stunning introduction to the history of Japanese printmaking, with highlights from the de Young museum’s vast collecti......more
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This collection of articles explores a possible alternative beginning of Global Art History and World Art Studies, two m......more
The 4th century BC Greek painter Parrhasius murdered his model--an old man who was his slave--to achieve, so the story g......more
In 75 eye-popping pairings of designer pieces and the artworks that inspired them, this stylish book reveals the art beh......more
On the tenth anniversary of its publication, this upated edition of a work ARTNews hailed as "one of the best books ever......more
In Colours of London Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of colour - with specially commissioned ......more
Featuring a new package and an additional 60 pages of material, this revised edition of The Art of Feminism covers an ev......more
Celebrated novelist, biographer, and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the world’s greatest cities i......more
Focusing contextually on the initial lockdowns of the pandemic in 2020, this book proposes that art-based research has a......more
Affect and Belonging in Political Uses of the Past examines key political events of the past decade, to analyse the rela......more
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- Lavishly illustrated with many full-page and mind-blowing illustrations The lavishly illustrated art book The Flemish ......more
Wake up to artistic inspiration every day with this popular, chunky hardback made available again in a refreshed edition......more
This tour-de-force of Britain’s Royal Collection provides a very rare opportunity to see an art trove not readily access......more
The enigmatic oeuvre of an Italian artist operating between the microscopic and the abstract This monograph presents the......more
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This study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre.......more
Traces the history of visual representations of anti-Jewish hatred in Czech Bohemia. The vicious scourges of religion-ba......more
This edited volume is about the application of design-led approaches for developing interventions that have the intentio......more
Brimming with examples from across the artistic spectrum, this is the perfect primer to hook future art enthusiasts. Pub......more
A dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today’s most well-respected......more
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In the rolling hills of Limburg, near Margraten, they slowly loom up, row after row: the thousands of white marble cross......more
In A Time of One’s Own Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of femi......more
In A Time of One’s Own Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of femi......more
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