Art History category: 15294 books
by R Champalakshmi
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Indian iconography has chiefly been catalogued by historians; it has not been extensively subjected to the analytical scrutiny that is essential to its use as a source of knowledge about our historical past. The present volume is therefore a pioneering study in that it looks at iconography as an index...
by Christopher Drew Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (1724–1803) and his impact on architectural theory and pedagogy.
Despite not leaving any built work, Leroy is a major international figure of eighteenth-century architectural theory and culture. Considering...
Visions of War
Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyber Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
From the dawn of time to the present, from the days of mammoth hunting to the era of Scud-busting, pictures of war constitute the most persistent genre of images human beings have created. In fact, human beings are the only creatures who engage in these two activities--organized violence and the making...
by Pausanias
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Pausanias is the second century Greek travelographer who is most well known for his "Description of Greece." This work is often cited as an important firsthand account of ancient Greece which provides a crucial link between classical literature and modern archaeology. "Description of...
Coptic Monasteries
Egypt's Monastic Art and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Egypt, the birthplace of communal monasticism, has a rich store of monasteries and monastic art. Coptic Monasteries takes the reader on a tour of the best preserved and most significant of these ancient religious centers, documenting in exhaustive detail the richness and the glory of the Coptic heritage....
Navajo Textiles
The Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Navajo Textiles provides a nuanced account the Navajo weavings in the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science—one of the largest collections of Navajo textiles in the world. Bringing together the work of anthropologists and indigenous artists, the book explores the Navajo rug...
Designing Modern Norway
A History of Design Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design history survey that focuses on designers and objects, this is an in-depth study of the ideologies, organizations,...
by Henrietta Leyser
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
'Here lies our leader all cut down, the valiant man in the dust.' The elegiac words of the Battle of Maldon, an epic poem written to celebrate the bravery of an English army defeated by Viking raiders in 991, emerge from a diverse literature – including Beowulf and Bede's Ecclesiastical History...
Soviet Salvage
Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected “elitist” mediums and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life.
Applying anthropological models borrowed from...
A Short History of the Middle Ages, Volume I
From c.300 to c.1150, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures—as well as their Eurasian connections—in a dynamic narrative. This volume spans the period *c.*300 to *c.*1150. The text has been significantly updated...
by Barbara H. Rosenwein
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures—as well as their Eurasian connections—in a dynamic narrative. The text has been significantly updated to reflect growing interest in the Islamic world...
A Short History of the Middle Ages, Volume II
From c.900 to c.1500, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures—as well as their Eurasian connections—in a dynamic narrative. This volume spans the period *c.*900 to *c.*1500. The text has been significantly updated...
Pin-Up Grrrls
Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
Subverting stereotypical images of women, a new generation of feminist artists is remaking the pin-up, much as Annie Sprinkle, Cindy Sherman, and others did in the 1970s and 1980s. As shocking as contemporary feminist pin-ups are intended to be, perhaps more surprising is that the pin-up has been...
by Britni Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Frustrated by the lack of a concise compilation of research into the pigments used by medieval artists for painting various works of art, Britni Patterson decided to create one as a reference for all students of the historical art of illumination.Taking advantage of the newest techniques of...