Art History category: 15294 books
Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas
Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In the past fifty years, the study of indigenous and pre-Columbian art has evolved from a groundbreaking area of inquiry in the mid-1960s to an established field of research. This period also spans the career of art historian Esther Pasztory. Few scholars have made such a broad and lasting impact...
Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture
Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC–AD 250
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring fascination with Greek culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture for new ends. This book provides a comprehensive account...
War & Art
Destruction and protection of Italian Cultural Heritage during World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
War and Art: The Preservation of Italian Treasures is the result of a joint effort by the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento in Rome, the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, and the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C.. All joined forces to ensure...
Beyond the Battlefield
Women Artists of the Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
World Wars I and II changed the globe on a scale never seen before or since, and from these terrible conflicts came an abundance of photographs, drawings, and other artworks attempting to make sense of the turbulent era. In this generously illustrated book, Catherine Speck provides a fascinating account...
Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art
Agency, Performance, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This book offers a renewed look at Emma Hamilton, the eighteenth-century celebrity who was depicted by many major artists, including Angelica Kauffman, George Romney, and Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun. Adopting an art historical and feminist lens, Ersy Contogouris analyzes works of art in which Hamilton...
by Adem Cetinkaya
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
The greatest contribution of Ottoman art is in the fields of manuscript painting and ceramics. Ottoman ceramics, mass-produced to supply both local and foreign markets, enjoyed the widest circulation and the highest reputation of all portable Turkish objects. By contrast, illustrated manuscripts were...
New Deal Art in Alabama
The Murals, Sculptures and Other Works, and Their Creators
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
As the United States struggled to recover from the Great Depression, 24 towns in Alabama would directly benefit from some of the $83 million allocated by the Federal Government for public art works under the New Deal. In the words of Harold Lloyd Hopkins, administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief...
The Art of the Body
Antiquity and its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first...
Art Against Dictatorship
Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country’s least powerful citizens—impoverished women living in Santiago’s shantytowns—spotlighted the government’s failings and use of violence by creating...
Discovery of El Greco
The Nationalization of Culture versus the Rise of Modern Art (1860–1914)
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this book is a comprehensive study of the rediscovery of El Greco – seen as one of the most important events of its kind in art history. The Nationalization of Culture versus...
by Emmanouil Kalkanis
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Erwin Panofsky’s Meaning in the Visual Arts is considered a key work in art history. Its ideas have provoked widespread debate, and although it was first published more than sixty years ago, it continues to feature regularly on numerous university reading lists.
Meaning in the Visual Arts...
The Rock-Art of Eastern North America
Capturing Images and Insight
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in 12 states and 4 Canadian provinces.
In archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology...
by Herbert R. Broderick
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In Moses the Egyptian, Herbert Broderick analyzes the iconography of Moses in the famous illuminated eleventh-century manuscript known as the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch. A translation into Old English of the first six books of the Bible, the manuscript contains over 390 images, of which 127...
by Dr. Anjali
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
The present Book “ Social and Cultural History of Ancient India” has been prepared for the students of graduate, Post Graduate and other Competitive Examination of History Courses Syllabus in almost all the Indian Universities. This work is also meant for the general readers who have some interest...