Francisco de Goya is considered one of the most important Spanish painters of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, last of the Greats and first of the modernists. But his sumptuous...

Helena Michie's provocative new work looks at how women's bodies are portrayed in a variety of Victorian literary and non-literary genres--from painting, poems, and novels, to etiquette, books, sex...

Collecting essays about the experiences of thirteen countries, including the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Japan, The Patron State presents a global overview of recent government policies...

Integrating Kant's ideas on aesthetics and morality, Dr. Kemal explains how Kant's theories emphasize that art is critical to the development of culture and community goals. He clarifies Kant's often...

A major exhibition catalog on the work of William Blake, printmaker, painter and revolutionary poet. The catalog explores the influence on Blake of the master artist-printmakers at the beginnings of...

An original, splendidly illustrated history of gardens as seen through the eyes of painters by the highly acclaimed author of Landscape Painting: A History.The creation of gardens was among the first...

"Throughout Chinese history, dynastic time--the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties--has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chinese art. There has been...

A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artistsBetween the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British...

A thematic discussion of twentieth-century clothing design views fashions in light of art, social change, chemical and technological advances, and the growth of the fashion industry

"Visual studies is a rapidly expanding intellectual field, growing throughout colleges and universities around the world. But is it asking the most interesting questions? And is it just too easy to...

A critical mapping of the multiplicities of Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi—composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, inventor, collector, futurologist. Over the...

Using the iconography of New Deal murals and plays to interpret the cultural history of the 1930s, Engendering Culture demonstrates that the visual and dramatic images of each form contain an...

Gathers the series of watercolors Franz Marc sent to his friend, Else Lasker-Schuler, an Expressionist poet.

 The British artist Cornelia Parker is known for her large, site-specific installations. Often composed of ordinary objects, her works makes the familiar extraordinary, whimsical, and even poignant...

Roep om rechtvaardigheid' belicht de rijke en fascinerende wisselwerking tussen kunst, de praktijk van de rechtspraak en het idee van rechtvaardigheid in de gebieden die onder de jurisdictie van de...

First published in 1954 and having gone through several editions, this comprehensive book remains the authoritative source in the study of symbols in Christian art. This paperback edition includes...

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69), the son of a well-to-do miller from the university town of Leiden, was by the age of 26 Holland's most celebrated painter and has remained an artist of universal appeal...

An illustrated examination of a work—a Warhol that isn't by Warhol—that embodies a shift in attitudes about artistic authorship and originality.Warhol Marilyn (1965) is not a work by Andy Warhol but...

Rembrandt was the most famous painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and the opportunity to work in his studio attracted young artists for nearly four decades, until the artist’s death in 1669. This...