"The fourth edition of the essential introduction to digital art, one of contemporary art's most exciting and dynamic forms of practice. Digital art, along with the technological developments of its...

A remarkable collection of metalwork from the Mediterranean, Iraq, Iran, and the Indian subcontinent, published here for the first time.This volume, the latest in the series on the treasures of The...

Celebrating sixty years of Yves Saint Laurent, this collection juxtaposes YSL creations with fine art masterpieces from major museums. In January 1962, Yves Saint Laurent launched his very first...

"Mini Artists introduces young children to art through twenty fun and easy craft projects inspired by famous artworks. Each project has been prepared for children between the ages three and six years...

A classic monograph in the World of Art series, offering a a detailed insight into Rembrandt's life and work. Rembrandt is among the few Old Master artists to retain universal appeal among art lovers...

"Internationally renowned artist Yuki Kihara--the first Fa'afafine and Pacific artist to represent New Zealand at the Venice Biennale--reframes history through a contemporary queer, Indigenous lens...

A kaleidoscopic journey tracing the methods and means of visual communication from cave paintings of the earliest humans to the first image of a black hole in deep space From the cave dweller...

This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage, stencils,...

Third edition of a history of Australian painting, first published in 1962 and revised in 1971. The relationship between international influences and changing political, social and artistic contexts...

The purpose of this book, which had its inception in a doctoral thesis, is to describe and interpret the iconography of the historiated initials accompanying the Pauline Epistles in twelfth- and...

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This volume contains reproductions of 100 16th-century Master Drawings from the outstanding holding of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Providing a broad view of drawing styles and functions in...

Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarized Spanish society...

Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses and...

The lives, loves, and works of key British Surrealists revealed by one of the last surviving members of this movement, best-selling author and artist Desmond Morris. Honored for their idiosyncratic...

A leading young Italian semiologist scrutinizes today's cultural phenomena and finds the prevailing taste to be "neo-baroque"--characterized by an appetite for virtuosity, frantic rhythms,...

Political acts are encoded in medial forms — feet marching on a street, punch holes on a card, images on live stream, tweets — that have force, shaping people as subjects and constituting the...

A trailblazing look at the historical emergence of a global field in contemporary art and the diverse ways artists become valued worldwidePrior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of “international”...

A basic premise of the book is that the social sciences offer a perspective that is essential for anyone desiring a well-rounded education. American education is returning to fundamentals and should...