History of art Books

Renowned art historian Robert Ornic takes readers on a breathtaking journey through the annals of artistic expression. From the earliest cave paintings to the cutting-edge digital creations of the 21st century, Ornic's vivid storytelling and expert...

How two roadside craft shops in upstate New York transformed American crafts into a fine art.Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional category Amid the economic turmoil of the Great Depression, in 1929, Clarence...

As the heritage of ancient culture, rock art is distributed at each continent around the world, from which the ancestors recorded their social and economic life via this method to manifest their understanding and recognition on the world.

Removed Paths Of Our Adinkra: Journals From Khader are excerpts from the Journals of a Freedom Fighter of a Lifetime. He was a cultural ghost haunting the digital ether, slipping through AGAM Mammon's grasp like water through a sieve. As the regime...

The interacting components of everyday life - the weekly supermarket shopping trip, fast food, children's toys - are still largely unremarked by cultural theorists. Grounded in Marxist theory, and guided by feminism, Susan Willis's lucid and entertaining...

As a response to the ubiquity of drawing in contemporary consciousness and a corresponding dearth of critical engagement with the medium, these collected essays provide original interpretations of artists' drawing today. Questions of process, politics,...

This study explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. By juxtaposing objects and places usually considered in isolation, provocative questions are raised about our...

Although the idea of excess has often been used to degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also been used as a strategy for self-fashioning and empowerment, particularly by women and queer subjects. This volume examines a...

The sixteen studies in this book include six specially translated from Greek and another two published here for the first time. They deal with the art of painting in Crete at a time when the island was under Venetian rule. The main emphasis is on the...

A favorite artwork can provide you with enjoyment and inspiration, help you recall important events of the past, and help you project a course into the future. Get even more enjoyment from a work of art you love by approaching it with an active mind.This...

This poem and art book includes amorous poems on relatable themes written by Antonio Journie, accompanied with gorgeous art works created by an artist named Deon(Stephanie Hayes).This book fascinates readers who inspire to love, and love deep. This...

This unique collaboration between scholars, practitioners and Muslim artists profiles emerging forms of contemporary British Muslim art, prompting a debate about its inclusion in UK society. It features analysis of Muslim art as a category, as well as...

The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early seventeenth to the midnineteenth centuries. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary, to...

This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine the dimensions of nefer, the term used to describe the good and the beautiful, within the context of ordinary life. Because the book is...

This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that are attached to them and the implications they have for...

From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, they also held mystical potential,...

The Russian budget process has received little detailed attention in academic literature. Here various key aspects of the formation of the federal budget, largely since Vladimir Putin began his third presidential term in 2012, are examined. It is...

Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of scholarship on this subject has yet to be produced. The Routledge Handbook of Street Culture integrates and reviews current...

For more than a century, the Ontario wine industry had found success producing mainly ports and sherries from American hybrid grapes, but as the 1970s approached, consumer tastes were changing and sales of the higher-alcohol wines were decreasing...

(UN)IMAGINABLEThe Pandemic SeriesWorldwide Pandemic? Honestly, who would've believed this could happen? Not me. But it did.I was laid off from my day job on March 18th, and all of a sudden told to stay home for the unforeseeable future. After ten days of...

What do Osama bin Laden, H.G. Wells, and the GTA series have to do with Hideo Kojima? A lot more than you'd think!In this stunning second installment of The Kojima Code series, author Terry Wolfe walks the reader through the brightest and darkest...

African people have a spirituality that is uniquely theirs. Before Judaism, Christianity and Islam even existed, African people had a history and spiritual system that these religions copied and plagiarized from. This book specializes in African...

""An Illustrated Itinerary of the County of Cornwall"" is a book written by Cyrus Redding and published in 1842. The book is a comprehensive guide to the county of Cornwall, located in the southwest of England. It provides a detailed account of the...

A Historical Essay On Architecture is a comprehensive book written by Thomas Hope in 1835. The book is a detailed account of the history of architecture, tracing its evolution from ancient times to the present day. Hope's work is a valuable resource for...

""An Illustration Of The Roman Antiquities Discovered At Bath"" is a book written by Richard Warner in 1797. The book is a detailed exploration of the Roman ruins found in the city of Bath, England. It contains a comprehensive description of the various...

""An Illustrated Essay On The Noctuidae Of North America: With A Colony Of Butterflies"" is a book written by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and published in 1882. The book is a comprehensive guide to the Noctuidae family of moths found in North America, which...

An Essay On The Military Architecture Of The Middle Ages is a book written by Eug�����ne Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc and published in 1860. The book provides a comprehensive study of the military architecture of the Middle Ages, with a focus on the design...

""An Episode In The Life Of Guido Reni"" is a historical novel written by Gertrude Grey and published in 1874. The book follows the life of the famous Italian painter, Guido Reni, during the 17th century. The story is set in Rome, where Reni lived and...

A Series of Sketches of the Existing Localities Alluded to in the Waverly Novels is a book written by James Skene and published in 1829. The book is a collection of sketches and descriptions of various locations that were mentioned in Sir Walter Scott's...

""A Series Of Discourses Upon Architecture In England From The Norman Era To The Close Of The Reign Of Queen Elizabeth"" is a comprehensive book written by James Dallaway in 1833. The book delves into the history of architecture in England, starting from...

""A Renaissance Leaning Facade At Genoa"" is a book written by William Henry Goodyear in 1902. The book provides a detailed analysis of the facade of a building in Genoa, Italy, which displays elements of Renaissance architecture. Goodyear examines the...

"Super Survivors: Citizens of the World and Planet Earth / Super Sobrevivientes: Ciudadanos del Mundo y del Planeta Tierra" is a memoir of survival across parts of the old and new worlds.  It is also the story of loss, pain, suffering, and...

""Geschichtliche Bilder aus �����sterreich V2"" ist ein Buch von Adam Wolf, das im Jahr 1878 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es ist der zweite Band einer zweiteiligen Serie, die historische Ereignisse und Pers������nlichkeiten aus �����sterreich behandelt...

Le ""Journal de Eug�����ne Delacroix V3: 1855-1863"" est un livre qui a �����t����� �����crit par l'artiste fran�����ais Eug�����ne Delacroix en 1895. Ce livre est le troisi�����me volume de son journal intime, qui a �����t����� publi����� apr�����s sa...

Le livre ""J. B. Simeon Chardin (1900)"" �����crit par De Fourcaud, Louis est une biographie de l'artiste fran�����ais Jean-Baptiste-Sim�����on Chardin. Ce livre explore la vie et l'�����uvre de Chardin, qui est connu pour ses peintures de natures mortes...

Le livre ""Jean D'Agreve"" (1897) de De Vogue, Eugene Melchior est un roman historique qui se d�����roule au XVIIIe si�����cle en France. Le personnage principal, Jean D'Agreve, est un jeune noble qui doit faire face ������ de nombreux d�����fis et...

Italiens et Flamands (1862) est un livre �����crit par Alexandre Dumas. Ce livre explore l'histoire de l'art en Italie et en Flandre, en se concentrant sur les artistes et les mouvements artistiques qui ont �����merg����� dans ces r�����gions. Dumas...

Italienische Bl�����tter ist ein Buch aus dem Jahr 1871 von Herman Riegel. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von Essays und Reiseberichten �����ber Italien, die der Autor w�����hrend seiner Aufenthalte in dem Land verfasst hat. Das Buch enth�����lt...

Inventaire Du Mobilier De Charles V, Roi De France (1879) par Labarte, Jules est un livre qui d�����crit en d�����tail le mobilier du roi Charles V de France. Il a �����t����� publi����� en 1879 et est consid�����r����� comme une source importante pour...