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This volume examines the visual culture of Japan's transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century.
This edited collection explores the intersection of historical studies and the artistic representation of the past in the long nineteenth century.
This book traces the development of scientific conservation and technical art history.
Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art addresses how researchers can challenge stereotypical notions of Islam and Islamic art while avoiding the creation of new myths and the encouragement of nationalistic and ethnic attitudes.
This book uses intermedial theories to study collage and montage, tracing the transformation of visual collage into photomontage in the early avant-garde period.
Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c. 1880-1945) and themes of health and hygiene, such as illness, contagion, cleanliness, and contamination.
This book illuminates the original functions of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century mural paintings in Britain and is intended to be read primarily by specialists, graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in new approaches to British art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal the evolution and function of these ritual objects.
This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelös well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time.
This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy and the history of ideas.
This volume offers a comprehensive perspective on the relationship between the art scene and agencies of the state in countries of the region, throughout four consecutive yet highly diverse historical periods.
Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele¿s work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist¿s visual borrowings from the Viennese humoristic journal, Die Muskete.
This book challenges existing notions of what is "American" and/or "Asian" art, moving beyond the identity issues that have dominated art-world conversations of the 1980s and the 1990s and aligning with new trends and issues in contemporary art today, e.g. the Global South, labor, environment, and gender identity.
This book takes an interdisciplinary, transnational and cross-cultural approach to reflect on, critically examine, and challenge the surprisingly robust practice of making art after death in an artist's name, through the lenses of scholars from the fields of art history, economics and law, as well as practicing artists.
Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art addresses how researchers can challenge stereotypical notions of Islam and Islamic art while avoiding the creation of new myths and the encouragement of nationalistic and ethnic attitudes.
This study is an analysis of the high point and subsequent decline of modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s. Through a close reading of a selection of key critics of the period, the book examines the ways that modernist criticism's discourse remains of especial disciplinary interest.
This book traces the development of scientific conservation and technical art history.
This volume examines the visual culture of Japan¿s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century.
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