History of Art & Design Styles books

This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives...  Read More >>

The critically acclaimed definitive biography of Kate Bush, revised and updated for 2024, with a new foreword by...  Read More >>

Taking into account the era of the Dual Monarchy as well as the period after 1989, this book scrutinizes the imperial...  Read More >>

This book explores the impact of artistic experiments in inspiring people to turn away from current food consumerism...  Read More >>

A fascination with the path not taken is a logical consequence of a world saturated with choices. Reinhuber theorises...  Read More >>

"This book examines four contemporary sites of visual culture in East Asia through the poetic prism of the ""ruinous...  Read More >>

This book examines how China’s new generation of avant-garde writers and artists are pushing the boundaries of vernacular...  Read More >>

This book analyses the conceptual and concrete relationships between rhythm and law.  Read More >>

Affect and Belonging in Political Uses of the Past examines key political events of the past decade, to analyse...  Read More >>

The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics is a reference work that provides an introduction to this...  Read More >>

By analysing the philosophical lineage of notions of time, being, light, exposure, image, and representation, this...  Read More >>

The permeability between the private and public spheres in the Renaissance led to an emergence of new forms of masculine...  Read More >>

This study in comparative literature contributes to the understanding of the myth of the artist as a European cultural...  Read More >>

As the last generation of underground artists in the Soviet Union and the first on the post-Soviet scene, Moscow...  Read More >>

"""A personal look at the stunning and diverse collection of one of Canada's most significant patrons of the arts.""--"...  Read More >>

Pursuing a new and timely line of research in world art studies, Humor in Global Contemporary Art is the first edited...  Read More >>

This book of Ken Light's earliest photos from 1969 to 1974 documents the social, cultural and political landscapes...  Read More >>

Découvrez ""Steam Punk - Alphonse Mucha,"" un livre d'images unique qui combine l'élégance de l'Art Nouveau d'Alphonse...  Read More >>

Cholo Writing is the 20th century's oldest form of graffiti, a Mexican-American phenomenon evident in Los Angeles...  Read More >>

Despite having become marginalized on the map of contemporary art since the wars of the 1990s, the regions of former...  Read More >>

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Documenting an artist couple’s site-specific exhibition at Frank Lloyd Wright’s historic East Hollywood Hollyhock...  Read More >>

Intersecting art, science and the scenographic mise-en-scène, this book provides a new approach to anatomical drawing,...  Read More >>

Explores the meanings and iconography of monumental paintings of Christ's miracles in late Byzantine churches, and...  Read More >>

""The naïve style of painting gives a licence to use colour in a way that conventional artists would not use. Every...  Read More >>