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The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture is the first comprehensive, historical account of the afterlives of ancient Greek monumental sculptures. Whereas scholars have traditionally focused on the creation of these works, Rachel Kousser instead draws on...

Translated by Lucinda Byatt This book tells the remarkable story of a rare discovery: the uncovering of two lost paintings by the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Like many stories of artistic loss, this one begins in a library in Italy, where...

This volume responds to calls in visual and material cultural studies to move beyond the visual and to explore the multi-sensory impact of the image, across a wide range of cultural and historical contexts. What does it mean to practise art history after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648727620Author Lyn MerringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Are PressPublisher Are PressWeight(grams) 129g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043274Author Stefanie HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book examines the new institution of divinization that emerged as a political phenomenon at the end of the Roman Republic with the deification of Julius Caesar. Michael Koortbojian addresses the myriad problems related to Caesar's, and subsequently...

This volume fills a major gap: there are no modern publications describing the mosaics of the major Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki aimed at the contemporary reader, both specialist and layman. The preserved mosaic decorations of the Rotonda, Hosios...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538879Author Gabriel OrozcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In this collection of essays, leading academics, critics, and artists historicize collage and appropriation tactics that cut across diverse media and genres. They take up issues of appropriation in the popular and the avant-garde, in altered billboards...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548939Author Meredith MorseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Notions of civilization and barbarism were intrinsic to Eugene Delacroix's artistic practice: he wrote regularly about these concepts in his journal, and the tensions between the two were the subject of numerous paintings, including his most ambitious...

Audible Presence explores the time-based procedures employed by three influential 20th-century artists: Italian Lucio Fontana, French Yves Klein and American Cy Twombly. With historical texts, photographs and ephemera, it relates their work to music,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262029261Author Lauren CornellFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 241mm * 171mm * 43mm

Chibuike Uzoma (b. 1992, Port Harcourt, Nigeria), is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, photography, drawing, text and video, living and working in New Haven, Connecticut.Documented here are sixteen of the artist's large paintings rendered...

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context is a challenging exploration of the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of expressionism outside of the German-speaking world, in regions such as Central and...

Are women's orgasms more intense than men's? What did Andre Breton think of homosexuality? Can love be separated from physical desire?In 1928 a group of surrealist writers and artists held twelve round table discussions to address these questions...

New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from the Middle Ages. In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tapestry has moved beyond studies of its sources and analogues, dating, origin and purpose, and site of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486401034Author Carol Belanger GraftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498160810Author Batty LangleyFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Baroquemania explores the intersections of art, architecture and criticism to show how reimagining the Baroque helped craft a distinctively Italian approach to modern art. Offering a bold reassessment of post-unification visual culture, the book examines...

Modern Art in Pakistan examines interaction of space, tradition, and history to analyse artistic production in Pakistan from the 1950s to recent times. It traces the evolution of modernism in Pakistan and frames it in a global context in the aftermath of...

In this book, Philip Kiernan explores how cult images functioned in Roman temples from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity in the Roman west. He demonstrates how and why a temple's idols, were more important to ritual than other images such as votive...

The foundation stone for the exceptional collection of Gabriele and Anna Braglia was laid by an exhibition of German Expressionism in Venice. The collection will be made accessible to the public in Lugano starting in September. Fascinated by the vivid...

Starting with the groundbreaking 1981 exhibit called "Volumen I," New Art of Cuba provided the first comprehensive look at the works of the first generation of Cuban artists completely shaped by the 1959 revolution. This revised edition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996314510Author Dr Margaret HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Neurotic RavenPublisher Neurotic RavenWeight(grams) 281g

Women, the arts and globalization: Eccentric experience is the first anthology to bring transnational feminist theory and criticism together with women’s art practices to discuss the connections between aesthetics, gender and identity in a global world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039383Author Douglas KahnFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 241mm * 171mm * 30mm

Cotton Claudius B.iv, an illustrated Old English Hexateuch that is among the treasures of the British Library, contains one of the first extended projects of translation of the Bible in a European vernacular. Its over four hundred images make it one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982386736Author Liana De Girolami CheneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788876248047Author Valerio TerraroliFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2400g

A fascination with an artwork's materiality remains one of the hallmarks of the visual arts and modernism during the 20th century. This critical text examines the role of materiality primarily within the context of modernist painting, focusing on...

What are the origins of the imagery and designs on common jewelry and portable artwork between late antiquity and the Middle Ages? These dynamic centuries encompass the transformation of the Greco-Roman world into the nascent kingdoms and medieval states...

Through a close look at the history of the modernist hooked rug, this book raises important questions about the broader history of American modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. Although hooked rugs are not generally associated with the...

Modern Art: A Global Survey from the Mid-19th Century to the Present is a broad chronological history of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, and new media from 1850 to today. Each chapter covers particular artistic movements or parts of the...

In early modern Europe, the visual image began to move, not only as it traveled across great distances but also due to the introduction of innovative visual formats that produced animation within the image itself. This book traces the arduous journeys of...

This collection brings together some of the important minds in both contemporary art history and theory, and law and legal history. The result is a discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image. The essays draw on the...

Luxurious, beautiful, and portable, tapestry was the pre-eminent art form of the Tudor court. Henry VIII amassed an unrivaled collection over the course of his reign, and the author weaves the history of this magnificent collection into the life of its...

The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and '70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches...

Here Now: Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum features 200 of the museum's most notable Indigenous artworks. It reinterprets the collection and reveals new insights into the historic and contemporary work of Indigenous artists...

How and why did a medieval female saint from the Eastern Mediterranean come to be such a powerful symbol in early modern Rome? This study provides an overview of the development of the cult of Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Rome, exploring in...