This book examines Qajar Iran (1785-1925) as an ocular-centered society founded on what was seen and unseen, in the context of increasing modernization and global contact during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive, focusing in particular on installation art. Jones considers i..
Uniting scholars from different art-historical fields, this interdisciplinary collection elucidates the agency of prints on more traditionally valued ..
This book rewrites the history of 'Victorian' art to explore the relationship between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and ..
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 var..
Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern. It explores some of the..
This updated edition of the History of Art: A Student's Handbook introduces students to the kinds of practices, challenges, questions and writings the..
The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and..
Art, Religion and Amnesia interrogates the fundamental assumptions fuelling many current controversies over representation, idolatry, blasphemy, and p..
First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history ..
Grant selects some of the most significant examples of painting, portraits, architecture, mosaic, jewellery and silverware. He provides a valuable ins..
Valpey extends the discussion on Indian images and their worship, bringing historical and comparative dimensions and considers Krishna worship in the ..
Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practi..