The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vig?e Le Brun (1755—1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, …
Encourages us to take a more careful look at many familiar phenomena, such as the variations in the duration of …
Journalist/photo artist Bamberg provides a thorough overview not only of digital photography but also of photography in general. The book …
Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture, ^The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and …
Angels are all around us. They flutter in stained glass windows, of course, and in cemeteries, but little ones shoot …
Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of "the economy" as …
What is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, and …
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an …
Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women's search for white beauty as a consequence of …
Suspenseful, deeply moving story of a horse's experiences at the hands of many owners, accompanied by 35 realistic, ready-to-color scenes …
A National Book Award FinalistA PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood …
In the aftermath of the 2016 US election, Brexit, and a global upsurge of nationalist populism, it is evident that …
A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous …
A gorgeous expanded edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, a landmark reference book on color and its origins in natureFirst …
The study of Roman sculpture has been an essential part of the disciplines of Art History and Classics since the …
In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. …
From the Renaissance idea of the painting as an open window to the nested windows and multiple images on today's …
Перевод с английского Л. Мотылева. «Не отпускай меня» — пронзительная книга, которая по праву входит в список 100 лучших английских …
Overview: Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel, The Goldfinch, introduced millions of readers to a painting …
Jack Ridl returns with a collection of poems that mix deft artistic skill with intimate meditations on everyday life, whether …
De Las Casas has adapted 25 folktales from across Asia for whole classroom use, borrowing a Japanese method of storytelling …
"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which …
Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different …
This book focuses on the theme of counter-surveillance in art through a multi-faceted engagement with the highly controversial Norwegian play …
These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian …
In this book, Douglas Biow analyzes Vasari's Lives of the Artists - often considered the first great work of art …
Is writing a world art history possible? Does the history of art as such even exist outside the Western tradition? …
The volume covers painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture and photography. Textiles, coins, pottery, enamels, gold and silver are also …
During the First World War the Australian Government established an official war art scheme, sending artists to the front lines …
The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people …
In 1978, faced with the pressure to modernize and a declining budget, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) reluctantly agreed …
