History of art Books

Polyptyque De Saint-Remi De Reims: Ou Denombrement Des Manses (1853) est un livre de l'auteur Guerard, Benjamin Edme Charles. Ce livre est une description compl�����te du polyptyque de Saint-Remi de Reims, qui est un document m�����di�����val important...

Das Buch ""Pommersche Geschichtsdenkm�����ler V2"" wurde 1867 von Theodor Pyl ver������ffentlicht und ist Teil einer Serie von Geschichtsdenkm�����lern, die sich mit der Geschichte von Pommern besch�����ftigen. Das Werk umfasst eine Vielzahl von Themen,...

Le Vol des Oiseaux est un livre �����crit par Etienne Jules Marey et publi����� en 1890. C'est un ouvrage scientifique sur la mani�����re dont les oiseaux volent. Marey �����tait un physiologiste fran�����ais qui a �����tudi����� le mouvement et le vol...

Le livre intitul����� ""Le Subconscient Chez Les Artistes, Les Savants Et Les Ecrivains"" a �����t����� �����crit par Paul Chabaneix en 1897. Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur explore la notion de subconscient chez les artistes, les scientifiques et les...

Il libro ""Osservazioni Artistico-Antiquarie Sopra La Statua Volgarmente Appellata Il Gladiator Moribondo; La Mitologia Di Sileno; La Favola della Sfinge Tebana"" ����� stato scritto da Antonio Nibby e pubblicato nel 1821. In questo testo, l'autore...

""Nozioni Elementari Di Arte E Storia Militare Ad Uso Degli Ufficiali Di Fanteria"" ����� un libro scritto da C. Linati nel 1862. Il libro ����� una guida per gli ufficiali di fanteria riguardo alle nozioni elementari di arte e storia militare. Il testo...

In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the physical building type is the foundation of this comprehensive architectural study, Iarocci reaches beyond...

Through a series of case studies from the mid-eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, this collection of essays considers the historical insights that ethno/auto/biographical investigations into the lives of individuals, groups and interiors...

Examining the literary career of the eighteenth-century Irish painter James Barry through an interdisciplinary methodology, this is the first full-length study of the artist's writings. Lenihan assesses the artist's own aesthetic philosophy about...

In the mid-1880s, an influential British architectural journal published an article characterizing Renaissance architecture as a corruption of classical architecture. By the turn of the century, however, the same journal praised the Renaissance architect...

One of "The Eight" a major group in the history of American painting John Sloan was also an illustrator and cartoonist

Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the 'art of fiction' debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction?This volume...

Repainting the work of another into one's own canvas is a deliberate and often highly fraught act of reuse. This book examines the creation, display, and reception of such images. Artists working in nineteenth-century London were in a peculiar...

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and...

Focusing on images of or produced by well-to-do nineteenth-century European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as resistant to easy codification vis-Ã -vis the public. Attending to various iterations of the public as space, sphere and...

Essays in this volume emphasize questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations, and provide an overview of current research on issues of circulation in relation to global art history and the globalization of art past and present...

Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War is a history of art during wartime that analyzes images in various media that circulated widely and were encountered daily by Spaniards on city walls, in print, and in exhibitions. Tangible...

A novel investigation into art pedagogy and constructions of national identities in Britain and Ireland, this collection explores the student-master relationship in case studies ranging chronologically from 1770 to 2013, and geographically over the...

For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded romanticism. In this study, Lauren Weingarden...

This work is a controversial critique of art theory, practice and politics, and a major enquiry into the history of primitivism and its implications for contemporary culture.

In The Subversive Imagination , professional writers, artists and cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors look beyond censorship and free speech issues and instead...

There was a time seven centuries ago when Famagusta's wealth and renown could be compared to that of Venice or Constantinople. The Cathedral of St Nicholas in the main square of Famagusta, serving as the coronation place for the Crusader Kings of...

The first English-language monograph on the French dancer and model, Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture explores the haunting legacy of this intriguing and glamorous figure, an international celebrity at the dawn of modern celebrity...

Drawing on art, literary, journalism, and publishing histories, this study argues that fine art practices of the Victorian period were influenced by the media culture of art publishing and journalism in formative ways, perhaps more than at any other time...

A radically new interpretation of Picasso's life and work by an important Jungian scholar, The Psychological Roots of Modernism is an exciting contribution to the fields of both Jungian psychology and cultural criticism.All of Picasso's major works, from...

This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art. In particular, it analyzes ludic participation, in which play and games are used organizationally so that participants actively engage with or...

Le livre ""Le Th����������tre ������ l'Exposition Universelle de 1889 (1890)"" �����crit par Arthur Pougin est une �����uvre qui d�����taille l'histoire du th����������tre pr�����sent����� ������ l'Exposition Universelle de 1889. L'auteur y d�����crit...

This book explores the historical and cultural significance of comics in languages other than English, examining the geographic and linguistic spheres which these comics inhabit and their contributions to comic studies and academia.The volume brings...

This book explores the complexities of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations in contemporary Australia.

"Black People Are My Business": Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation studies the works of Bambara (1939-1995), an author, documentary filmmaker, social activist, and professor. Thabiti Lewis's analysis serves as a cultural...

Since the advent of war, history has recorded the exploits of the generals or the heroic deeds of a few individuals. Although the commanders might acknowledge the exploits of their regiments, history books generally have neglected the cogs in the...

Is a book about Marci Rodgers' life as a child growing up and loving art. She heads off to college to pursue a degree in business however, she still seeks the world of creation. Through her journey she never gives up her faith, and through determination...

Acclaimed author, James Elkins, presents a road map of the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources. He takes the reader down a side road where visual studies becomes a more interesting place.

Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural...

In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's...

The internet has recently grown from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps this new domain of language, politics and identity, locating it within the histories of...

First published in 2000. Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? Carla Mazzio and Douglas Trevor have brought together an outstanding group of literary, cultural, and history scholars to answer this intriguing question. Through...

The Reader focuses on the practices of modern and contemporary science and technology located in different national and institutional settings, with some attention to non- Western contexts. By mapping some of the open questions and points of tension...

Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies...

Fugitive Cultures examines how youth are being increasingly subjected to racial stereotyping and violence in various realms of popular culture, especially children's culture. But rather than dismissing popular culture, Henry Giroux addresses its...

The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism differentiates the "Social Justice Left" from "Cultural Radicalism" and the various social movements for individual freedom.In The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism, Stanley Aronowitz asks the question,...

Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology.

More wide ranging, both geographically and chronologically, than any previous study, this well-illustrated book offers a new definition of Celtic art. Tempering the much-adopted art-historical approach, D.W. Harding argues for a broader definition of...

Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by...

This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the cultural politics of contemporary Taiwan film that goes beyond the auterist mode, the nation-state argument and vestiges of the New Cinema.

An absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and Europe and American colonialism, using case studies and recent forms of interpretive analysis. Now published for the first time in paperback.

Modern Art Culture: A Reader provides an essential resource for understanding the culture of modern art since the 1960s. In recent years, media theorists and historians have asked whether works of imaginative art can have any impact in our...

The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the 9th century. Some papers are devoted to the church calendar and the annual commemorations of hundreds of saints through...