History of Art & Design

Uniting scholars from different art-historical fields, this interdisciplinary collection elucidates the agency of prints on more traditionally valued objects, and vice-versa. Contributors explore how paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, scientific instruments, and armor exerted their own influence..

Uniting scholars from different art-historical fields, this interdisciplinary collection elucidates the agency of prints on more traditionally valued objects, and vice-versa. Contributors explore how paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, scientific instruments, and armor exerted their own influence..

This book presents the history of a gentlemen’s club in London that was founded in 1866 for the purpose of exhibiting private art collections. It takes the main exhibition themes as a starting point to explore approaches to art, connoisseurship and display in a unique setting...

Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field, which has experienced dramatic shifts in the past 50 years._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ In discussions of the canon of art history, the notion of ‘inclus..

Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field, which has experienced dramatic shifts in the past 50 years._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ In discussions of the canon of art history, the notion of ‘inclus..

This book aims to redefine Australia’s earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "Aboriginal art," tracing the term’s use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

Beginning with a dissertation on Raphael’s drawings, Oskar Fischel made it his endeavor, with an ever growing knowledge of Raphael, to arrive at a comprehensive representation, and this he has left behind this book...

Rome, Travel and the Sculpture Capital, c.1770–1825 is the first study to piece together the labyrinthine sculptors' world of Rome between 1770 and 1825. The volume sheds new light on the links connecting Neo-classicism, sculpture collecting, Enlightenment aesthetics, studio culture, and queer studi..

First published in 1935, this book was intended to provide westerners with a more definite and comprehensive understanding of Chinese Art and its achievements. Newly available opportunities to study authentic examples, such as the Royal Academy exhibition that provided the impetus for this volume, a..

First published in 1935, this book was intended to provide westerners with a more definite and comprehensive understanding of Chinese Art and its achievements. Newly available opportunities to study authentic examples, such as the Royal Academy exhibition that provided the impetus for this volume, a..

This book demonstrates the roles that Senecan eclecticism and a classicizing approach to emulation played in Rubens’s joining of form to matter in his formative drawings practice, and arguably in his early ambitions to strengthen art for a new and troubled age._x005F_x000D_  ..

Despite the status of Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1485-1547) as a significant figure of the High Renaissance—he was a close associate and rival of the central artistic figures of the period, notably Michelangelo and Raphael—no recent scholarly study in English has focused comprehensively on his life an..