History of Art & Design

This volume presents a contrastive study of the overlapping careers of Shakespeare and Caravaggio through the comparison of their similar conventional belief in symbol and the centrality of the subject, only to gradually open it up in an exaltation of multiplicity and the "indistinct regard"...

This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes and techniques by Surrealist artists and writers in Europe and the Americas, from the 1920s through the 1960s...

As the first comprehensive analysis of the full lifespan and ongoing significance of the Small Landscape prints, this unique case study offers a new perspective on the trajectory of print publishing over the course of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries...

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth-Century explores the current state of scholarship vis-à-vis Dutch art in all of its complexity. Its 19 chapters, divided into three sections and written by a team of internationally renowned art historians, address a wide variety of topi..

The 16th century bronze plaques from the kingdom of Benin are among the most recognized masterpieces of African art, and yet many details of their commission and installation in the palace in Benin City, Nigeria, are little understood. The Benin Plaques, A 16th Century Imperial Monument is a detaile..

First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. It is an important and exciting addition to the history of European Art and establishes, scientifically, theories which only exi..

First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. It is an important and exciting addition to the history of European Art and establishes, scientifically, theories which only exi..

The British School of Sculpture is the first essay collection examining the rich array of sculpture produced and exhibited in Britain between 1768 and 1837. Featuring nearly 60 illustrations, many never reproduced before, and combining essays from leading scholars in the field with exciting new voic..

Drawing on a wide range of little known examples of interior schemes and surviving wallpapers, together with unpublished evidence from archives including letters and bills, this book charts wallpaper’s evolution across the century from cheap textile imitation to innovative new decorative material...

This work is a controversial critique of art theory, practice and politics, and a major enquiry into the history of primitivism and its implications for contemporary culture...

Piero della Francesca tried to introduce a new idea of painting. Based on a methodical application of perspective, his work cultivated the illusion that it reported on things found rather than imagined. Piero’s art marked an exception in fifteenth-century culture, with its emphasis on poetic inspira..