History of Art & Design Styles books

This absorbing monograph is the first to detail the captivating life and oeuvre of the Dutch artist Gesina ter Borch....  Read More >>

Printed images were widely disseminated in early-modern Britain, yet, by comparison with texts, they have been relatively...  Read More >>

Sport and Art is a study of the relationship between sport, art and philosophy. It argues that sport, like art,...  Read More >>

Angles of Atlanta introduces the photographic artistic expressions of diasporic photojournalist and street photographer,...  Read More >>

Work by artists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), interviews and first-hand accounts form the core of this book...  Read More >>

The first monograph on a groundbreaking Surrealist masterpiece, Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals offers a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Since the mid-1970s, the term zone has often been associated with the post-war housing estates on the outskirts...  Read More >>

Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the complex cultural exchanges that took place between Britain and America...  Read More >>

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The essays in this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral...  Read More >>

Histories of sculpture within the Nordic region are under-studied and the region's influence upon and translation...  Read More >>

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well...  Read More >>

Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's later writings, this collection makes a case for the seriousness and significance...  Read More >>

In Aesthetic Expertise, Ole Martin Skilleås explains what aesthetic expertise is, what it’s used for, how it manifests...  Read More >>

Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' To explain why, Paul Crowther investigates topics such...  Read More >>

The Art and Thought of John La Farge offers an unprecedented portrait of one of the most celebrated artists of the...  Read More >>

The first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist,...  Read More >>

Features an introduction to the life and art of the famous Impressionist, and beautifully reproduced full-page artworks...  Read More >>

This book sheds new light on one of the most important artworks of the early Italian Renaissance, Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s...  Read More >>

Through archival documents, pictorial and historical accounts, literature, and correspondence, as well as cultural...  Read More >>

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This book explores the dual roles of legends about the apocryphal character of Veronica and the history of the ""true...  Read More >>

This book centres on four Portuguese artists’ journeys between Portugal and Britain and aims at rethinking the cultural...  Read More >>