History of Art & Design

The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take...

Building on literary and anthropological interpretations of liminality, this book demonstrates how the exploration of boundaries in Netherlandish art served to infuse the works with greater meaning...

Addressed to students of the image--both art historians and students of visual studies--this book investigates the history and nature of time in a variety of different environments and media as well as the temporal potential of objects...

 This volume makes its contribution by offering new interdisciplinary approaches that not only investigate perspective, but also examine how mathematics enriched aesthetic theory and the human mind...

Individually and collectively, the essays in this cross-disciplinary collection explore the impact of the revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on European visual culture, from the outbreak of the pan-European conflict with France in 1792 to the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815...

In this study, first published in 1979, Landow contends that Hunt’s version of Pre-Raphaelitism concerned itself primarily with an elaborate system of painterly symbolism rather than with a photographic realism as has been usually supposed. George Landow examines Hunt’s work in the context of this a..

In a departure from conventional biographies, this book concentrates on Hunter’s position at the very centre of artistic, scientific and cultural life in London and in doing so, presents a sustained and critical account of the relationship between anatomy and artists over the course of the long eigh..