Art History category: 15294 books
Impressionists and Politics
Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Impressionists and Politics is an accessible introduction to the current debates about Impressionism. Was the artistic movement really radical and innovative? Is the term "Impressionism" itself an adequate characterization of the movement of painters and critics that took the mid-nineteenth...
by Frank Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
“Face Value” takes a revolutionary new approach to art history, exposing complex networks of colonial artists and revealing important lost paintings of Richard Noble.This is a Dickensian tale of humble beginnings, great expectations, and migration to the ends of the earth, where instant...
by Stephanie J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation...
Animating Empire
Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts throughout the Holy Roman, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires. In Animating Empire, Jessica Keating recounts the lost history of six such objects and reveals the religious, social, and political...
Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening
An Anthropology of Residence in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Artistic residency has become widely adopted in Western countries while only recently having become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This book explores the challenges that this form of art practice faced in contemporary Taiwan from the revocation of Martial Law in 1987 to the 2000s—arguably...
Southwestern Pottery
Anasazi to Zuni
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
When this book first appeared in 1996, it was “Pottery 101,” a basic introduction to the subject. It served as an art book, a history book, and a reference book, but also fun to read, beautiful to look at, and filled with good humor and good sense. After twenty years of faithful service, it’s...
by Lord Byron, William Beckford, Pierre Benoit
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
ShandonPress proudly presents the Orientalism compilation which regroups major orientalist works (both paintings and writings).
Orientalism is a term used by scholars in art history, literary, geography, and cultural studies for the depiction of Eastern, that is "Oriental" cultures,...
The Art of Arthur Rackham: Celebrating 150 Years of the Great British Artist
Celebrating 150 Years of the Great British Artist
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This book, The Art of Arthur Rackham, celebrates 150 years of one of the best and most loved artists in British history. Over his long and illustrious career, he contributed to an extensive number of books, magazines and periodicals, resulting in a vast array of original artworks. In this book, Pook...
The Double Screen
Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1996
This book contemplates a large problem: what is a traditional Chinese painting? Wu Hung answers this question through a comprehensive analysis of the screen, a major format and a popular pictorial motif in traditional China. With a broad array of examples ranging from the early centuries C.E. to...
A Story of Ruins
Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous...
Screen of Kings
Royal Art and Power in Ming China
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy – relatives of the emperors – in Ming dynasty China (1368–1644). Through an analysis of their patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through a study...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
Questioning History / Reflect 7
imagining the Past in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Imagining the Past in Contemporary Art
Pop Art and Popular Music
Jukebox Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Jukebox modernism is a procedure by which Pop artists used popular music within their works to disrupt decorous modernism...