"The way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing developments to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed down by...

How do pictures tell stories? Why does the literary romance so often refer to paintings and other visual art objects? Beginning with these two seemingly unrelated questions, Wendy Steiner reveals an...

"In 1987 the Belgian artist Marie-Jo Lafontaine created Les larmes d'acier (Steel Tears) for documenta 8 in Kassel - a video sculpture which aroused greater interest than might have been expected and...

During the Reformation, statues and carvings of saints, once commonly revered as aids to salvation, were condemned by increasing numbers of Protestants as fearsome idols. Moral doubts coupled with...

Creates a typology for the decorative and informative Roman historical reliefs

"It is an inspiration to analyze Robert Smithson's earthworks through the lens of Martin Heidegger's philosophy of art, in which the concept of earth plays so central a role. It is fitting artist and...

The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno...

"From the mid-1960s, the world of comics rapidly evolved into a highly creative art form for a sophisticated readership: in France, the magazine Hara-Kiri provided new terrains for graphical humour,...

"Of the hundreds of printed books Katsushika Hokusai created in his lifetime, a huge proportion of these were dedicated drawing manuals, known as e-tehon. They display not only Hokusai's great...

A compact edition of this highly acclaimed survey of the Fayum paintings, the enigmatic and compelling funeral portraits created by the inhabitants of Roman Egypt in the 1st century CE. These...

An expansive volume featuring over two decades of incisive reflections on race, art and pop culture by one of the greatest artists working todayThis long-awaited and essential volume collects...