Art & Visual Culture

In Renaissance and early modern Europe, various constellations of phenomena - ranging from sex scandals to legal debates to flurries of satirical prints - collectively demonstrate an increased concern with cuckoldry, impotence and adultery. Deploying analytical tools from a range of disciplines, the..

Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: the art of the late medieval and early modern periods contains myriad examples of spectacular unmaking. The martyrdoms of saints, stories of justice, and reports of the atrocities of war provided fertile ground for scenes of bodily desecratio..

Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: the art of the late medieval and early modern periods contains myriad examples of spectacular unmaking. The martyrdoms of saints, stories of justice, and reports of the atrocities of war provided fertile ground for scenes of bodily desecratio..

Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: the art of the late medieval and early modern periods contains myriad examples of spectacular unmaking. The martyrdoms of saints, stories of justice, and reports of the atrocities of war provided fertile ground for scenes of bodily desecratio..

Debates in Art and Design Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in learning and teaching. It introduces key issues, concepts and tensions in order to help art educators develop a critical approach to their practice in response to the..

Debates in Art and Design Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in learning and teaching. It introduces key issues, concepts and tensions in order to help art educators develop a critical approach to their practice in response to the..

The aim of this book is to explore innovative forms of ethnographic representation, and also to show how, through these forms, a rich variety of "transcultural art" is being created. The book and the series website weave together visual and aural narratives, interviews and observations, life stories..

The aim of this book is to explore innovative forms of ethnographic representation, and also to show how, through these forms, a rich variety of "transcultural art" is being created. The book and the series website weave together visual and aural narratives, interviews and observations, life stories..

The 5th edition of the Directory of Museums, Galleries and Buildings of Historic Interest in the United Kingdom incorporates some 2,700 entries.It covers all types and sizes of museums; galleries of paintings, sculpture and photography; and buildings and sites of particular historic interest. The Di..

Ann Roberts here identifies and examines thirty objects from the convent of San Domenico of Pisa, commissioned for and made by fifteenth-century nuns. Roberts analyzes the social and religious functions of the images, firmly grounding her interpretation in the values of the nuns' Order, and in the p..

Ann Roberts here identifies and examines thirty objects from the convent of San Domenico of Pisa, commissioned for and made by fifteenth-century nuns. Roberts analyzes the social and religious functions of the images, firmly grounding her interpretation in the values of the nuns' Order, and in the p..

In an age where art history’s questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative - embracing doubt as a critical tool and asking how particular histories of art have come to be...