History of Art & Design

Grant selects some of the most significant examples of painting, portraits, architecture, mosaic, jewellery and silverware. He provides a valuable insight into the functions of art in the Empire, focusing on frontier regions...

By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation-states, and promoted particular group ideologies...

Elizabeth Sutton, using a phenomenological approach, investigates how animals in art invite viewers to contemplate human relationships to the natural world...

This edited scholarly volume offers a perspective on the history of the genre of the nude in the Middle East and includes contributions written by scholars from several disciplines (art history, history, anthropology)...

Art, Religion and Amnesia interrogates the fundamental assumptions fuelling many current controversies over representation, idolatry, blasphemy, and political culture...

Art, Religion and Amnesia interrogates the fundamental assumptions fuelling many current controversies over representation, idolatry, blasphemy, and political culture...

This volume provides a stimulating and adventurous exploration of the theme of travel from an art-historical perspective...

These essays, which focus on art from 1800 to the present that engages with Nordic landscapes, argue that artists and scientists both examine the human impact on these landscapes as well as the difficulty of controlling nature...

Valpey extends the discussion on Indian images and their worship, bringing historical and comparative dimensions and considers Krishna worship in the context of modernity, both in India and the West. The book focuses on one specific worship tradition, the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition of the fourtee..

This book rewrites the history of 'Victorian' art to explore the relationship between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle...

The absent body is represented in two distinct periods of art: medieval art using the absent body for religious reflection and contemporary art using the absent body from a secular perspective. In this collection, some essays deal broadly with the human condition, such as the abstract notion of the ..

First published in 2005. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron known to have been painted by a major artist. Beginning with the discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portrait’s provenance and its relat..