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The most comprehensive and best-illustrated introduction to Western art, the two volumes of ART: A History of Painting, Sculpture, And …
Automated facial recognition algorithms are increasingly intervening in society. This book offers a unique analysis of these algorithms from a …
In the 1930s, the crises brought about by the Depression, climatic devastation, and the rearmament of Europe led Americans from …
This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately first to seventh centuries). It …
De Las Casas has adapted 25 folktales from across Asia for whole classroom use, borrowing a Japanese method of storytelling …
Is writing a world art history possible? Does the history of art as such even exist outside the Western tradition? …
This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, …
Folio 46r from Codex Telleriano-Remensis was created in the sixteenth century under the supervision of Spanish missionaries in central Mexico. …
This book focuses on the theme of counter-surveillance in art through a multi-faceted engagement with the highly controversial Norwegian play …
Embodying the entire system of Robert Henri's teaching, The Art Spirit contains much valuable advice, critical comment, and inspiration to …
A comprehensive work on the art of China with the emphasis on antiquities. Many color illustrations of sculpture, ceramics and …
During the Cold War, culture became another weapon in America's battle against communism. Part of that effort in cultural diplomacy …
Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics: Ways of Seeing the Religious Other, edited by Emma O’Donnell Polyakov, examines the hermeneutics of …
In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art …
During the First World War the Australian Government established an official war art scheme, sending artists to the front lines …
Comprehensive, authoritative, highly readable and generously illustrated, Herbert Read's text has been rightly acknowledged as "by far the best introduction …
The essays in this volume represent some of the best new thinking about the crucial relations between visual representation in …
This book by artist, diver, and editor-in-chief of an underwater magazine Jürgen Claus is a milestone among the books dedicated …
Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different …
Short stories have enjoyed a long and popular history, with many famous writers attempting the craft at some point or …
The work of Chippewa artist George Morrison (1919–2000) has enjoyed widespread critical acclaim. His paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures have …
Thirty million presentations will be given today. Millions will fail. Millions more will be received with yawns. A rare few …
A vivid and compelling history of human artistic achievements, from the first stone fashioned into a figure by a hunter-gatherer …
The volume covers painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture and photography. Textiles, coins, pottery, enamels, gold and silver are also …
"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which …
This fascinating book examines some of the characteristics of technological/engineering models that are likely to be unfamiliar to those who …
"The art world is bound to the economy," writes Julian Stallabrass, "as tightly as Ahab to the white whale." In …
The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people …
Demonstrates how the experience of East-Central and Eastern Europe needs to be integrated into evolving scholarship on the world wars. …