Art & Visual Culture

Interpreting Art in the Museum, Gallery and Beyond is both a study and a manual of curatorial practices of art interpretation in museums, galleries and other contexts such as the urban environment...

This third volume in "The Art Seminar" is essential reading on art and visual studies with contributions from the worlds’ most prominent and widely-travelled art history scholars...

J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History is an in-depth consideration of the artist's complex response to the challenge of creating history paintings in the early nineteenth century. Structured around the dual themes of making and unmaking, this book examines how Turner's history paintings reveal ch..

J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History is an in-depth consideration of the artist's complex response to the challenge of creating history paintings in the early nineteenth century. Structured around the dual themes of making and unmaking, this book examines how Turner's history paintings reveal ch..

This richly illustrated work examines Japanese influences on four artists working in Britain: the American James McNeill Whistler, the Australian Mortimer Menpes, and the 'Glasgow boys' George Henry and Edward Atkinson Hornel...

This title was first published in 2002: Jörg Breu belonged to the generation of German Renaissance artists that included Dürer, Cranach, Grünewald, Altdorfer, and, in his own city of Augsburg, Hans Burgkmair the Elder. His art registered the early reception of Italian art in Germany and spanned t..

Exploring the thought of historical figures seldom consulted by art historians - including Dionysius the Carthusian, John Calvin and Constantijn Huygens - Boudewijn, Bakker sheds new light on the history and significance of landscape in Netherlandish painting. Through his analysis of these writers' ..

_x005F_x000D_ Law for Artists is an invaluable resource to professional practitioners and art graduates, as well as the academics who instruct them. This insightful publication, the first of its kind, helps introduce artists to the professional practice skills needed to ensure they are well-equipped..

_x000D_ Law for Artists is an invaluable resource to professional practitioners and art graduates, as well as the academics who instruct them. This insightful publication, the first of its kind, helps introduce artists to the professional practice skills needed to ensure they are well-equipped to de..

Eight years after being released from imprisonment on the papal galleys, Leone Leoni (1509-90) became the chief sculptor to Emperor Charles V, was granted a noble title, and began the building and decoration of the most impressive house ever owned by an artist up to that time. Based on archival doc..

Eight years after being released from imprisonment on the papal galleys, Leone Leoni (1509-90) became the chief sculptor to Emperor Charles V, was granted a noble title, and began the building and decoration of the most impressive house ever owned by an artist up to that time. Based on archival doc..

Using examples of indigenous models from Indonesia, the Pacific, Africa and Native North America, Kreps illustrates how the growing recognition of indigenous curation and concepts of cultural heritage preservation is transforming conventional museum..