Colonial art books

391 books were found.

The Cause of Art: Professionalizing the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador

The Cause of Art: Professionalizing the Art Gallery...

Author: Jeff Webb
ISBN: 9781487555351
Format: Paperback
$72.42

The Cause of Art reveals how curators and visual artists fought for control of a provincial art gallery during a...  Read More >>

The Cause of Art: Professionalizing the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador

The Cause of Art: Professionalizing the Art Gallery...

Author: Jeff Webb
ISBN: 9781487555344
Format: Hardback
$160.43

The Cause of Art reveals how curators and visual artists fought for control of a provincial art gallery during a...  Read More >>

Curating Transcultural Spaces: Perspectives on Postcolonial Conflicts in Museum Culture

Curating Transcultural Spaces: Perspectives on Postcolonial...

Author: Sarah Hegenbart
ISBN: 9781350227729
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Curating Transcultural Spaces asks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspectives might look...  Read More >>

The Image of Celestina: Illustrations, Paintings, and Advertisements

The Image of Celestina: Illustrations, Paintings, and...

Author: Enrique Fernández
ISBN: 9781487549787
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book examines imagery of the eponymous character from La Celestina from the early sixteenth century until today....  Read More >>

Dissident Authorship in Mozambique: The Case of António Quadros (1933-1994)

Dissident Authorship in Mozambique: The Case of António...

Author: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Tom Stennett (Exeter University)
ISBN: 9780198885900
Format: Hardback
$168.19

This book is the first monograph on neglected Portuguese poet and painter António Quadros (1933-1994). It analyses...  Read More >>

Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740–1940

Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity,...

Author: Maria Taroutina ,  Allison Leigh
ISBN: 9781526166234
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russia’s historic relationship with Asia...  Read More >>

The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain

The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the...

Author: Catherine Infante
ISBN: 9781487556457
Format: Paperback
$99.00

The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to...  Read More >>

Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle...

Author: Joseph Bristow
ISBN: 9781487546083
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Extraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth...  Read More >>

From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso: Christoph Schlingensief's Opera Village Africa as Postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk?

From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso: Christoph Schlingensief's...

Author: Sarah Hegenbart
ISBN: 9789462703582
Format: Paperback
$150.08

The postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk: Disrupting the Eurocentric perspective on art history and addressing Germany's...  Read More >>

African Art Now: Fifty pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century

African Art Now: Fifty pioneers defining African art...

Author: Osei Bonsu ,  Maro Itoje
ISBN: 9781781578384
Format: Hardback
$89.99

50 enlightening profiles of contemporary African artists who are revolutionising the art world.  Read More >>

Caribbean Art

Caribbean Art

Author: Veerle Poupeye
ISBN: 9780500204788
Format: Paperback
$35.00

An updated and expanded edition of this classic, illustrated survey of Caribbean art, featuring the work of over...  Read More >>

Media Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres

Media Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches, Scraps,...

Author: Joseph Monteyne
ISBN: 9781487527747
Format: Hardback
$134.55

Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...  Read More >>

Miss Clara and the Celebrity Beast in Art, 1500-1860

Miss Clara and the Celebrity Beast in Art, 1500-1860...

Author: Charles Avery ,  Samuel Shaw
ISBN: 9781913645021
Format: Paperback
$54.99

The fascinating story of the rhinoceros Miss Clara, the most famous animal of the eighteenth century.  Read More >>

Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial Histories through Contemporary Art

Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden Colonial...

Author: Selene Wendt
ISBN: 9788857245607
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The contemporary artists featured in this book include John Akomfrah, La Vaughn Belle, Manthia Diawara, Jeannette...  Read More >>

Photographic Subjects: Monarchy and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia

Photographic Subjects: Monarchy and Visual Culture in...

Author: Susie Protschky
ISBN: 9781526156990
Format: Paperback
$45.99

This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass...  Read More >>

Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa: A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows

Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early...

Author: Dr Zachary Kingdon (National Museums Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9781501377884
Format: Paperback
$54.99

The early collections from Africa in Liverpool’s World Museum reflect the city’s longstanding shipping and commercial...  Read More >>

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art

Author: Joanna Page
ISBN: 9781787359772
Format: Paperback
$64.69

An assembly of a new corpus of art-science projects by Latin American artists. Projects that bring the sciences...  Read More >>

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art

Author: Joanna Page
ISBN: 9781787359789
Format: Hardback
$116.44

An assembly of a new corpus of art-science projects by Latin American artists. Projects that bring the sciences...  Read More >>

The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in...

Author: Alice Procter
ISBN: 9781788402453
Format: Paperback
$24.99

If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.  Read More >>

A Short History of the Ottoman Empire

A Short History of the Ottoman Empire

Author: Renée Worringer
ISBN: 9781442600416
Format: Paperback
$99.99

This stunning new textbook traces the full history of the Ottoman Empire from its origins through to its dissolution...  Read More >>

British Art and the East India Company

British Art and the East India Company

Author: Geoff Quilley
ISBN: 9781783275106
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art, demonstrating how...  Read More >>

Resonances

Resonances

Author: Georges Petitjean ,  Bérengère Primat
ISBN: 9788874399345
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Contemporary Aboriginal and Western artwork from two important private collections on view at the Fondation Opale....  Read More >>

Pictured Politics: Visualizing Colonial History in South American Portrait Collections

Pictured Politics: Visualizing Colonial History in South...

Author: Emily Engel
ISBN: 9781477320594
Format: Hardback
$113.95

Featuring almost eighty illustrations from between 1590 and 1830, Pictured Politics is the sole study in English...  Read More >>

Andrés Pereira Paz: Radio Carabuco

Andrés Pereira Paz: Radio Carabuco

Author: Künstlerhaus Bethanien ,  Daniela Leykam
ISBN: 9783862067848
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book documents the project Radio Carabuco of the Bolivian artist Andrés Pereira Paz, which he created during...  Read More >>

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