Art History category: 15294 books
Image Problems
The Origin and Development of the Buddha's Image in Early South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism�s relationship with figural art as an...
by Edward Spiers
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Available in paperback for the first time, The Victorian soldier in Africa re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period, 1874–1902 – the zenith of the Victorian imperial expansion – and does so from the perspective of the regimental soldier. The book utilises...
Henrietta Maria
Piety, Politics and Patronage
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Compiled by art historians, literary scholars, musicologists, and historians, this essay collection is an innovative and interdisciplinary study of Queen Henrietta Maria and her multi-faceted roles and responsibilities. Elements of the queen's popular biography - her European identity and devout Catholic...
by Heather Warren-Crow
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
You are girlish, our images tell us. You are plastic. Girlhood and the Plastic Image explains how, revealing the increasing girlishness of contemporary media. The figure of the girl has long been prized for its mutability, for the assumed instability and flexibility of the not-yet-woman. The plasticity...
Early Illustrated Books: (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This 1893 publication includes chapters devoted to early book illustration in Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Spain, and England. Pollard presents a history of book illustration in each country, details what distinguished the books from those being produced elsewhere, and offers an overview of specific...
by Marsha Meskimmon
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more than simply reflect and represent the processes...
Imperfect Fit
Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. Allen Fisher—a highly accomplished poet, painter, critic, and art historian as well as a key figure in...
Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition
Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has historically been excluded from Western notions of art; that the Western aesthetic tradition's preoccupation with the human body has meant that Islamic and Western art being perceived as inherently...
by Nicole A. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
In a world so vivid with color and a society so beautifully diverse, there's an overwhelming amount of impressionable, young minds to educate and inspire. Celebrate individuality with Nicole A. Jones' new book, My Black History, where love and respect prove virtuous above all else!
With...
Paul Gauguin
The Mysterious Centre of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
French artist Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) once reproached the Impressionists for searching “around the eye and not at the mysterious centre of thought.” But what did he mean by this enigmatic phrase? In this innovative investigation into Gauguin’s art and thought, Dario Gamboni...
The Beast Between
Deer Imagery in Ancient Maya Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
The white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization; it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya sites and also functioned as a major ceremonial symbol. Offering an in-depth semantic analysis of this imagery, The Beast Between considers iconography, hieroglyphic...
The First Smithsonian Collection
The European Engravings of George Perkins Marsh and the Role of Prints in the U.S. National Museum
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015
Winner, Ewell Newman Award of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 2016
In 1849 the Smithsonian purchased the Marsh Collection of European engravings. Not only the first collection of any kind to be acquired by the new Institution,...
Modernism versus Traditionalism
Art in Paris, 1888-1889
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Modernism vs. Traditionalism: Art in Paris 1888-1889 considers questions surrounding artistic developments at the end of the nineteenth century in Paris. Students will debate principles of artistic design in the context of the revolutionary changes that began shaking the French art world in 1888-1889....
by Raya Yotova
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Jacob Jordaens is a completely distinct Flemish artist who, unlike most of his compatriot artists from his era, has never taken trips to Europe, and especially to Italy, to study the experience of foreign artists.
He was born and spent his entire life in Antwerp, where he created his glory as an unsurpassed...