Art History category: 15294 books
Miserere Mei
The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
In Miserere Mei, Clare Costley King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. During this period, the Penitential Psalms inspired an enormous amount of creative and intellectual work: in...
Early Rock Art of the American West
The Geometric Enigma
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
The earliest rock art�in the Americas as elsewhere�is geometric or abstract. Until�Early Rock Art in the American West,�however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety....
Criminal Ingenuity
Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
"Poetry was declining/ Painting advancing/ we were complaining/ it was '50," recalled poet Frank O'Hara in 1957. Criminal Ingenuity traces a series of linked moments in the history of this transfer of cultural power from the sphere of the word to that of the image. Ellen Levy explores the New York...
Shades of Black
Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
In the 1980s—at the height of Thatcherism and in the wake of civil unrest and rioting in a number of British cities—the Black Arts Movement burst onto the British art scene with breathtaking intensity, changing the nature and perception of British culture irreversibly. This richly illustrated...
by Felix Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Palaces like the Aljafería and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at Córdoba, Kairouan and many other sites has vastly increased our knowledge about the origin and development of Islamic palatial architecture, particularly in...
by Margaret L. Laird
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The combination of portrait statue, monumental support, and public lettering was considered emblematic of Roman public space even in antiquity. This book examines ancient Roman statues and their bases, tombs, dedicatory altars, and panels commemorating gifts of civic beneficence made by the Augustales,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Dancing beasts of myth and legend, thick foliage that appears to live and breathe, reclining figures engulfed by symbols of fate — this magnificent compendium of 15th- and 18th-century embellishments offers up a dizzying array of Gothic and Renaissance designs steeped in religion and fantasy. A...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under the line between the ancient world and Christianity erected by the early Church in late antiquity. Ancient rhetorical theory is obsessed with...
Representations and Communications
Creating an Archaeological Matrix of Late Prehistoric Rock Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
In this volume, which is the outcome of the four-year long collaboration project SARA (Scandinavian and Atlantic Rock Art) between the archaeology department at University of Gothenburg and the Laboratory of Heritage of Spanish National Research Council, nine papers summarize new excavation and survey...
A New Middle Kingdom
Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700–1850)
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after a series of devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the seventeenth century, the late Chos n dynasty was a period of unprecedented economic and cultural renaissance. This book questions this age-old...
by Maria Peitcheva
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Thomas Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. He painted several hundred portraits, usually of friends, family members, or prominent people in the arts, sciences,...
by Andrew Cochrane, Andrew Meirion Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Prehistoric imagery is enigmatic and has been largely overlooked by archaeologists; it is only in the last two decades that it has garnered serious academic attention. This volume addresses this lacuna and discusses visual expression across Neolithic Europe. The papers in this volume result from a...
Networks of Stone
Sculpture and Society in Archaic and Classical Athens
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Networks of Stone explores the social and creative processes of sculpture production in Athens in the sixth and fifth centuries BC. Using the concept of art worlds, it analyses the contributions and interactions of all those who were in some way part of creating the sculpture set up in the sanctuaries...
by Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The Greeks inscribed their works of art and craft with labels identifying mythological or historical figures, bits of poetry, and claims of ownership. But no type of inscription is more hotly debated or more intriguing than the artist's signature, which raises questions concerning the role and status...