History of Art & Design Styles books

This volume explores how Italian institutions, dealers, critics, and artists constructed a modern national identity...  Read More >>

Presenting a story of art and artists in Gunbalanya, western Arnhem Land between the years 2001 and 2005, this book...  Read More >>

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally....  Read More >>

This book examines British collectors of so-called “Persian art”...  Read More >>

Based on hitherto overlooked archival material, this book reveals Nell Walden’s significant impact on the Sturm...  Read More >>

This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which resemble...  Read More >>

Responding to Heidegger’s stark warnings concerning the essence of technology, this book demonstrates art’s capacity...  Read More >>

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Step into the world of Cameron Silver, the mastermind behind LA's renowned vintage haven, Decades. With him, embark...  Read More >>

William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist,...  Read More >>

Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international...  Read More >>

""Investigates the artwork of Fernand Lâeger, one of machine modernism's leading figures, as a case study of the...  Read More >>

A Sourcebook of Performance Labor presents the views and experiences of collaborators in other artists’ works.  Read More >>

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From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders...  Read More >>

This book examines Afrofuturism in African American art, focusing specifically on images of black women and how...  Read More >>

Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different...  Read More >>

This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient...  Read More >>

This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors’...  Read More >>

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 30s, Millard Meiss (1904-1975) developed...  Read More >>

This is the first book dedicated to Husserl’s aesthetics. Crowther pieces together Husserl’s ideas of phantasy and...  Read More >>

Long-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles, methods...  Read More >>

A deep look at Christina Ramberg’s life and work, the origins of her influential investigations of form and femininity,...  Read More >>

This multi-disciplinary book synthesises methodologies drawn from art history (close pictorial analysis), psychology...  Read More >>