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The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Arms and Armour from India, Iran and the Ottoman Empire

A beautifully illustrated catalogue of a world-class collection of arms and armour from India and the Middle East. The Wallace Collection...

The Alchemical Feminine - Women, Gender and Sexuality in Alchemical Images

A sweeping panorama of images of women in alchemical manuscripts, early printed books, prints and paintings The images of women compiled ...

Downtown Style - Laffanour Galerie Downtown Paris

Having exhibited the most iconic works made by famous designers - from Charlotte Perriand, Serge Mouille, Jean Prouvé, Le Corbusier and E...

David Hammons - Day's End

An in-depth look at a public art project by David Hammons with an overview of the enigmatic artist’s career

Siena - The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350

An exploration of a crucial turning point in Italian art.

The Medieval Mediterranean Between Islam and Christianity - Crosspollinations in Art, Architecture, and Material Culture

"This volume offers an exploration of the Christian-Islamic encounter in a pan-Mediterranean context, through an array of new research pa...

Machine Modernism, Masculinity, and the Trauma of War - The Art of Fernand Leger

Investigates the artwork of Fernand Léger, one of machine modernism's leading figures, as a case study of the aesthetic's origins in Worl...

Magdalene Odundo - A Dialogue with Objects

A beautifully illustrated look at how the acclaimed ceramicist draws on the postcolonial experience in her work Magdalene Odundo (b. 1950...

Power, Politics and the Street - Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970

Providing a recent history of Southeast Asian art linked to the social and political contexts in which the illustrated work emerged, this...

Rethinking Japan's Modernity - Stories and Translations

In Rethinking Japan's Modernity, M. William Steele takes a new look at the people, places, and events associated with Japan's engagement ...

The Mirror of Art - Painting and Reflection in Early Modern Visual Culture

Genevieve Warwick brings a dual focus between art-making and art-viewing through an exploration of the early modern elision of the pictur...

Sanya Kantarovsky - Selected Works 20102024

An arresting and visually rich monograph of the work of contemporary artist Sanya Kantarovsky. Forlorn and spiritually bankrupt, tender o...

Nordic Art and Way of Life - Art World, Artists and Themes

An exploration of the development of the art scene, its socio-political context, and the role of the fine arts in nineteenth-century Nord...

The Art of George Wilson

What made many of the great adventure comics of the 1960s so attractive were their fantastic painted covers by artist George Wilson. Unli...

Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century

Analysing the works of literary naturalists writing about art, this book argues for the importance of disorder in the French art world in...

Donald Judd

This publication documents an exhibition of Judd's work held at David Zwirner in New York in 2011, which presented works drawn from the a...

Brilliant Exiles - American Women in Paris, 1900-1939

A scintillating account of the cultural freedom and empowerment that American women experienced as leaders in the avant-garde scene in ea...

Ribera's Repetitions - Paper and Canvas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Naples

Reassesses the complexity and creativity of seventeenth-century Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera, examining how his extensive experimentat...

Animal Sightings - Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400-1550

Animal Sightings challenges two common ideas about the depiction of animals in early modern European court art: first, that the human fig...

Cold War Asia - A Visual History of Global Diplomacy

This innovative collection uses visual sources to explore the role of Asia in Cold War global diplomacy. Scholars across disciplines demo...

The Mysterious Fayum Portraits - Faces from Ancient Egypt

A compact edition of this highly acclaimed survey of the Fayum paintings, the enigmatic and compelling funeral portraits created by the i...

Maker Space - Creative Environments in Early Modern Europe

This volume charts alternative courses through history via the physical conditions and artisanal ecologies in which cultural artifacts we...

Early Civilization and the American Modern - Images of Middle Eastern Origins in the United States, 18931939

Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer - An Intervention

Investigates the specific role that art history plays in education around gender-based violence in the arts.

Emily Young - Stone Carvings and Paintings

Exploring Emily Young's carved works from the 1980s to the present, Jon Wood's thoughtful survey places her sculpture within its resonant...

The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities

The Handbook of Cartographic Humanities offers a vibrant exploration of the intersection and convergence between map studies and the huma...

Facing Images - Medieval Japanese Art and the Problem of Modernity

Traces the turbulent discourse about the emergence of Japanese art history as a modern field, and presents a new paradigm for discussing ...

The World Atlas of Public Art

Essential reading for anyone interested in art, community, and the built environment

Art, Power, and Resistance in the Middle Ages

A collection of essays exploring how medieval works of art have engaged with discourses of power and resistance in both the Middle Ages a...

Cartographies of Exclusion - Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England

Analyzes representations of Jews on medieval English Christian maps, focusing on cartographic imagery intended by royal and ecclesiastica...

Aboriginal Art

An updated and expanded edition of this classic survey, which has established itself as the superlative introduction to the full diversit...

Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World - 1200-1800

This book focuses on the techniques and materials of polychromy used in early modern Europe and the Americas from 1200 to 1800.

Storied Deserts - Reimagining Global Arid Lands

Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of rese...

The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art

The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people of Af...

Byzantine Media Subjects

"An innovative approach to the history of Byzantine art that applies media theory to Byzantines' relationship to representations of their...

Teaching Labor History in Art and Design - Capitalism and the Creative Industries

Drawing from American history, fashion design, visual culture, museum studies, and women¿s history, among others, this book explores the ...

Earth Diplomacy - Indigenous American Art, Ecological Crisis, and the Cold War

Jessica L. Horton reveals how Native American art in the mid-twentieth-century mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the ea...

Durer's Knots - Early European Print and the Islamic East

"The first comprehensive study of Duerer's treatment of Islamic themes in his prints"--

Grime, Glitter, and Glass - The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art

Focusing on the art of Renée Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Nikki A. Greene examines how Black visual artists ...

Reckoning - Protest. Defiance. Resilience.

Explores the powerful ways in which visual art has long provided its own rich outlet for protest, commentary, escape, and perspective for...

The Monument's End - Public Art and the Modern Republic

"How the founding of the Dutch Republic compelled artists and intellectuals of Rembrandt's time to pose enduring questions about the ways...

Leon Battista Alberti - Writer and Humanist

"The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti's major literary works in Latin and Italian, whch are often overshadowed by h...

Paris 1874 - The Impressionist Moment

A wide-ranging exploration of the birth of impressionism centered around the landmark exhibition in Paris in 1874

Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938

This book introduces readers to an important but largely unknown strand of European modernism in Vienna--defining a new domestic culture ...

Storm Cloud - Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis

A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis

The Art of the Eurasian Steppe - Its Influence on European Cultures

The Art of the Eurasian Steppe is a contextual analysis which traces the stylistic transformation of artefacts depicting animals from var...

Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin-de-siecle - Seeing and Hearing the Beyond

This edited volume explores the dialogue between art and music with that of mystical currents at the turn of the twentieth century.

The Art of Sam Yang

In this gorgeous hardback book, discover the incredible journey of Sam Yang (samdoesarts), whose stunning art has earned him 1.9million f...

Modern Painting in Egypt

Modern Painting in Egypt is an invitation to travel through the Egyptian art scene of the 20th century, highlighting several major painte...

The Radical Print

A groundbreaking account of printmaking in Britain that explores the medium’s intersection with radical politics

Peter Weibel - Art as an Act of Cognition

The first comprehensive overview of Peter Weibel’s visionary work, covering over half a century of artistic expression from material to m...

Visual Counterculture in Japan - Political Shifts and the Dynamics of Resistance

This book presents innovative analysis of emergent visual trends in Japan from the late 1960s to the present day. Adopting a thematic app...

Eternal Offerings - Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art

The collection of ancient Chinese bronzes at the Minneapolis Institute of Art is exceptional in its depth and rarity. It is generally con...

The Book of Marvels - A Medieval Guide to the Globe

This fascinating volume explores an important fifteenth-century illustrated manuscript tradition that provides a revealing glimpse of how...

Marianne North - A Victorian Painter for the 21st Century

This lavishly-illustrated book re-assesses the work of the nineteenth-century botanical painter Marianne North (1830-1890) and the purpos...

The Great Mughals - Art, Architecture and Opulence

The Great Moghuls presents, for the first time the opulent, internationalist culture of Moghul Hindustan in the age of its greatest emper...

The Little Book of Art History

An easy and extensive introduction to art history that appeals to both younger and older readers. This book gives everyone, young and old...

Ewa Juszkiewiez

"I wish to tell a new tale and create my own language: ambiguous, dense, natural, and organic." Ewa Juszkiewicz was born in 1984 and live...

Amaravati - Art and Buddhism in Ancient India

A visual exploration of the Buddhist stupa or reliquary mounds at one of ancient India's most remarkable monuments at Amarāvatī. In this ...

A Book about Ray

"This is a book about Ray Johnson, "New York's most famous unknown artist." Johnson was a collagist, performance artist, and practitioner...