Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great’s audacious power grab in 1762 marked a watershed in imperial Russian history. During a momentous 34-year reign, her rapacious vision and intellectual curiosity led to vast territorial expansion, cultural advancement, and civic, educational and social reform. In this pioneerin...

The Bronzes of Rodin

This is a catalogue raisonné of Rodin's bronzes. There are 455 entries with over a thousand pictures in 2 volumes. Each work lists the inventory number, the technique and a bibliography. Information about provenance and historical context along with comparison to other works is also included. The...

The Diary of Mary Watts 1887-1904

Mary Watts (1849-1938) was a leading designer of the Arts & Crafts period, the founder of the Compton Pottery and the wife of the great Victorian painter George Frederic Watts (1817-1904). She was also an avid diarist and filled copious volumes with her musings on art and society and her day-...

Hans Hofmann

Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was a pivotal figure in Abstract Expressionism and stands as one of the most important characters of post-war American art. This ground-breaking catalogue raisonne of paintings, which has been painstakingly researched over sixteen years.

Light and Splendour

Silver and gold have always indicated wealth and power; in Late Antiquity these metals were semantically combined with the religious metaphor of ‘light’. Contributions are variously in German, English, French or Italian, all with either English or German summaries.

Technical Studies of Asian Art

Thirty richly-illustrated papers presented at the seventh Forbes Symposium offers a multidisciplinary examination of a rich expanse of art from across Asia.

Adrift in Time

Chimera

Reimagines the human relationship with technoscience and environment, offering fresh, non-hierarchical and ethical perspectives beyond dystopian futures. Exploring the evolving relationship between the human body, technoscience, and the environment, Chimera introduces the concept of the “expande...

Performing Punctuation

A transdisciplinary collection raising awareness of the limiting effects of the dominance of English language and vociferous use of punctuation. How can English language punctuation discard its domineering and strident overcoat to enable a greater diversity of readers, listeners, performers, writ...

Studies in Persian Art, Volume II

This second volume of Basil Robinson's Studies concentrates on Persian manuscript illumination, beginning with six studies of artists who worked in this medium. There then follows twenty-two studies of individual manuscripts, from the fourteenth century onwards.

Forget-Me-Not, Iran

Facing hardship, enduring pain, losing all – such things are a bitter pill to swallow for anyone. For those devoted to the life of the spirit, cruel misfortune – even violent opposition – are familiar stages of the journey of life. Walking a spiritual path in a material world is rarely an easy ex...

African Luxury

Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be 'saved', and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as 'rising', African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics highlights and critically interrogates the visual and material cultures of lavish and luxurious consumption already pres...

Reframing Consciousness

Georges Braque’s Post-Cubism Masterpieces

The book features a group of 32 works by Georges Braque made after his cubist period. They are accompanied by new texts on the subject by Professor Frederic Montegu. All the works illustrated were painted between 1920 and 1960. It showcases the vision of a collector focusing on one of the artist’...

Cappenberg - der Kopf, das Kloster und seine Stifter

The so-called Cappenberger Barbarossakopf is one of the most famous and well-known monuments of 12th century art. This book sheds new light on the importance of Cappenberg for the spread of the Premonstratensians, but above all it explains the origin, function and significance of the Cappenberg h...

The Great Illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe

An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day  

Let's Talk about Critique

Explores the tradition of critique in art and design education. It contextualizes current practices and suggests ways to have more open, inclusive and dynamic classroom conversations about art and design. The centerpiece is a collection of alternative critique approaches developed by experienced ...

Bringing modernity home

Bringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period.

The Return of Twin Peaks

Franck Boulègue's latest book about David Lynch and Mark Frost's famous television series focuses on the eighteen new episodes directed by Lynch for season 3, screened in 2017. Analyses the season with special importance given to readings from an intertextual, ontological and spiritual perspectiv...

Into the Story 2

Following the first collection of story drama structures, Into the Story 2: More Stories! More Drama! presents a well-argued approach to the value of children’s picture books as a way to look at contemporary issues of social justice while building connections that promote a literacy that is multi...

Franklin Furnace and the Spirit of the Avant-Garde

Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts organization that preserves, documents and presents works of avant-garde art by emerging artists. This book shows its comprehensive history from conception to the present. It intersperses first-person narratives with readings by artists and schol...

Further Studies in Romanesque Sculpture

Professor Zarnecki's influential work in English Romanesque sculpture reinterprets familiar landmarks. This volume compiles 22 papers focusing on exhibitions, links between Normandy and England, English Romanesque sculpture, iconography, the Eadwine Psalter, and Norman and English art around 1180.

National Archaeological Museum, Athens (Chinese language edition)

A guide to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, providing information about all the collections with emphasis on how they are displayed in the Museum. Illustrations of representative works which demonstrate the quality and value of exhibits in the largest, most important museum in Greece...

Rocks, Paper, Memory

This catalogue documents an exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology of watercolor paintings by American artist Wendy Artin and selected objects from the Museum's permanent collections. Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series of watercolors of ancient Greek and Roman scul...

A Manual of Egyptian Pottery

The first comprehensive guide to Egyptian pottery from earliest (Fayum A) to modern day. Invaluable to students and experienced field archaeologists. In paperback, and in spiral-bound versions that are designed especially for the field and lab. Quick identification guides, extensive introductions...

Narrating the Catastrophe

This book guides readers through unfamiliar textual landscapes where 'being' is defined as an act rather than a form. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's notion of intersubjective narrative identity as well as the catastrophe theory of Gilles Deleuze, Jac Saorsa creates an alternative perspective from whic...

The Problem of Assessment in Art and Design

With its inevitable dependency on the essential, and often contested, nature of art, the subject of assessment or evaluation in art and design education remains a matter of continuing controversy. This collection of essays examines the principal issues as they relate to the main phases of formal ...

Sargent to Basquiat

The catalogue of an exhibition in 2016 at the Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont. Includes work by John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Wassily Kandinsky, Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Henry Moore, Andy Warhol, Howard Hodgkin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, C...

Showing resistance

This study charts how exhibitions were used for propaganda and political intervention during the two decades from 1933: giving urgent warnings against the rise of fascism, providing practical information about how to live frugally and signalling international political alignments, beliefs and aff...

The challenge of the sublime

This interdisciplinary study looks at the influence of Edmund Burke's theories of the sublime on British Romantic art, arguing that it is far more significant than previously imagined.

Eye and Mind

The thirteen articles collected in this volume were published between 1971 and 1997. Reprinting them is meant not only to make the articles more accessible but also to present a cohesive body of work (primarily on Anglo-Saxon art) that as a whole has yet to be surpassed or methodologically replac...

Macedonian Treasures (English language edition)

This guide to the Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai - in Imathia, Central Macedonia - takes the reader step by step on the tour of this particularly spare and austere, yet simultaneously atmospheric, exhibition of the treasures from these tombs. Impressive photographs accompany historical inform...

Word, Picture, and Spectacle

Essays addressing issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts, connections between word and picture in religious art, perceived relationship between divine and human creativity and an exploration in the phe...

The Care for the Antiquities in Greece and the First Museums

Book discusses issues connected both with the development of archaeology and with the history of modern Greece. Covers the fifteenth century until the mid-1970s, from the state of ancient monuments under Turkish rule to the building museums in Athens and the provinces. Greek language text. 142 b&...

The Mosaics of Thessaloniki Revisited

Essays on the chronology and interpretation of the Byzantine mosaics of Thessaloniki. Edited collection of papers by expert authors, originally presented at a symposium held in 2014 at the Courtauld Institute of Art. 67 colour illustrations.

Cypriote Antiquities in the S.O.F.I.A. Foundation Collection

This volume, authored by a leading authority in Cypriot archaeology, Professor Emeritus Vassos Karageorghis FBA, and with contributions by other scholars, aspires to make accessible many of the Cypriot artefacts from the collection of the S.O.F.I.A. Foundation in Nicosia, together with a part of ...

The Mycenaean Pictorial Style

Catalogue of the collection of the National Archaeological Museum - includes vases from every part of Greece -many of which are the work of known vase-painters- decorated with figures of humans and animals, with ships and helmets, and with other motifs. English language text. 522 b&w illustra...

The Acropolis Through its Museum (English language edition)

Guide to the works of art in the Acropolis Museum. 210 col illus, plans and reconstruction drawings. Presents the history of the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis as part of the cultural and wider history of Athens. Author is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Athens University.

National Archaeological Museum, Athens (German language edition)

A guide to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, providing information about all the collections with emphasis on how they are displayed in the museum. Illustrations of representative works which demonstrate the quality and value of exhibits in the largest, most important museum in Greece...

Acropolis (Greek language edition)

Designed to be a useful travel companion. Descriptions and interpretation show the monuments of Athens in a different way and help visitors to understand the historical, artistic and political events that contributed to their creation. 95 illus. French language edition. 95 col. illus. Greek langu...

The Early Art of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and Lesser Sites in Warwickshire

The study of the early art of England can be frustrating for scholars, as the destruction by iconoclasm and neglect was very thorough in certain regions. Aids those studying the early art, including relics and musical iconography, of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and other Warwickshire ...

Staring Back

Catalogue of 2015 exhibit at the Fleming Museum of Art in Vermont USA. The largest section of the exhibition highlighted the continuing pull of Picasso's major 1907 painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, over 100 years after its creation - as evidenced in the work of international artists.

National Archaeological Museum, Athens (Russian language Edition)

A guide to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, providing information about all the collections with emphasis on how they are displayed in the museum. Illustrations of representative works which demonstrate the quality and value of exhibits in the largest, most important museum in Greece...

Studies in Persian Art, Volume I

Basil Robinson is a renowned expert on Persian art, notably manuscript illumination. This first volume of his collected essays explores the evolution of Persian painting, from the 14th to 19th centuries. The work pays particular emphasis on that most characteristic of Persian manuscripts, the Sha...

Acropolis (Spanish language edition)

Designed to be a useful travel companion. Descriptions and interpretation show the monuments of Athens in a different way and help visitors to understand the historical, artistic and political events that contributed to their creation. 95 col. illus. Spanish language edition.

National Archaeological Museum, Athens (English language edition)

Guide to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. It gives general information about all the collections, with emphasis on how they are displayed in the Museum. Illustrates works representative of collections and which demonstrate the quality and value of exhibits in the largest, most import...

Mikros odigos archaiologikou mousiou thessalonikis (Greek language edition)

The exhibits on display in the Archaeological Museum of Thessalonike are presented and illustrated in the pages of this Short Guide by Julia Vokotopoulou, who was Director of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The illustrations are accompanied by a brief explanatory text. 189 colour illus...

Guide to the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (Italian language edition)

The Museum, one of the most important in Greece, houses masterpieces of Greek art associated with the history of Ancient Macedonia, from the 2nd millennium BC to the 4th century BC and the reigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great. The Guide presents the rich, varied finds from important Macedo...

Ceramics of Chios 17th–19th century

The core of this volume is the collection of Chian pithoi belonging to Angelos Vlastaris combined with other important ceramics and a wealth of archive material. It presents a picture of the cultural and social flowering of Chios before the Massacre of 1822. Illustrated in colour and black & ...

icones apo tis thracices arches tou Euxinou pontou sti Voulgaria (Greek language edition)

Published to accompany the exhibition 'Icons from the Thracian Coasts of the Black Sea', in the Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki. 52 Byzantine and Post-Byzantine icons presented and discussed in detail. Greek language text. 172 colour illustrations.

The Early Art of the West Riding of Yorkshire

Professor Palmer has systematically surveyed the art of the former West Riding of Yorkshire and has provided an iconographic index of this large region where medieval drama also flourished.

The Acropolis Through its Museum (Spanish language edition)

Guide to the works of art in the Acropolis Museum. 210 col illus, plans and reconstruction drawings. Presents the history of the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis as part of the cultural and wider history of Athens. Author is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Athens University. Spanish language ed...

Vital Expression (Greek language edition)

Ιoannis Makriyannis (1797-1864) was a Greek politician and author, best known for his Memoirs. Τhis series of 24 paintings depicting episodes from the Greek War of Independence of 1821 and from the Memoirs, belonged to King Otto of Greece, the first monarch of ‘modern’ Greece. 78 col. illus. Gree...

The Acropolis Through its Museum (Greek language edition)

Guide to the works of art in the Acropolis Museum. 210 col illus, plans and reconstruction drawings. Presents the history of the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis as part of the cultural and wider history of Athens. Author is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Athens University. Greek language edit...

Akropolis (German language edition)

Designed to be a useful travel companion. Descriptions and interpretation show the monuments of Athens in a different way and help visitors to understand the historical, artistic and political events that contributed to their creation. 95 col. illus. German language edition.

Studies in Anglo-Saxon Sculpture

Professor Cramp's 30-year research on Anglo-Saxon sculpture, especially in Northumbria, revolutionized our understanding. This book compiles his work, focusing on Northumbria's cultural impact, Christian crosses, and their influence on Anglo-Saxon England.

Musée archéologique national, Athènes

A guide to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, providing information about all the collections with emphasis on how they are displayed in the museum. Illustrations of representative works which demonstrate the quality and value of exhibits in the largest, most important museum in Greece...

Constructive Strands in Russian Art 1914-1937

Christina Lodder's collection of articles, spanning two decades, explores the Russian avant-garde's response to the 1917 Revolution and its influence on art across Europe. Updated with new notes reflecting recent research, it offers insights into this dynamic period.

Studies in Arthurian Illustration Vol I

Two volumes gather Professor Stones's papers on Arthurian manuscript illustration, exploring the art and cultural context of Arthurian romances in the French-speaking world. These manuscripts featured text and images, offering insights into diverse patrons, scribes, and artists.

Authority of Images / Images of Authority

Essays discuss how representation, through language norms, plays and court spectacles, manipulations and adaptations of texts and images, both constitutes and reflects a cultural milieu and a broad range of geographical contexts, from Byzantium to eastern Germany and England from the early centur...

Ancient Cypriot Art in the National Archaeology Museum of Athens (English language edition)

Catalogue of the Cypriot Collection of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Collection includes around 850 artefacts, including sculptures, pottery and terracottas, covering virtually the entire spectrum of Cypriot archaeology from the early bronze age (ca 2500 B.C.) to Roman times (4th ce...

A Collage of Customs

In A Collage of Customs, Mark Podwal's imaginative and inventive interpretations of woodcuts from a 16th-century Sefer Minhagim (Book of Customs) allow us to see these historic images in a new light. Podwal brings humour and whimsy to religious objects and practices and delivers a nuanced comment...

Bauhaus and Greece (Greek and English)

Edited collection on the Bauhaus and Greece. Considers the impact of the school on the twentieth century’s modern aesthetics, but also the experiences of a broader world-view and the importance of politics in the emergence of a new humanism. Most chapters are in Greek, some are English language o...

The Left-Handed Evangelist. A Contribution to Palaeologan Iconography

This book explores the emergence and impact of the left-handed Evangelist icon in late Byzantine art, primarily in manuscripts but also in church mosaics and frescoes. It traces its rise in the 14th century, replacing older models, and discusses its enduring influence on Byzantine art. The study ...

Kapela Sistina, nea ermineutiki prosegisi meta thn apokatastasi ton toixografion

Jointly produced by the Musei Vaticani and Libreria Editrice Vaticana, the paintings of the Sistene Chapel are examined in relation to the theological interpretations prevailing in that period. Greek language text. 186 illus., most colour.

Great Moments in Greek Archaeology (English language edition)

This beautifully illustrated book offers an overview of the greatest archaeological sites and discoveries from ancient Greece. The contributors include those who have excavated at the sites in question and scholars who have spent a lifetime studying the monuments about which they write. 650 col i...

The Sea Of Gods, Heroes and Men in Ancient Greek Art (parallel text, English/Greek)

Published to coincide with an exhibition in both France and Greece, dedicated to marine representations on vases, and particularly those inspired by mythology. Part I examines 42 specific examples of vases; Part II contains specialist articles on the iconography of the sea and on marine archaeolo...

A Manual of Egyptian Pottery, Vol. Two

The first comprehensive guide to Egyptian pottery from earliest (Fayum A) to modern day. Invaluable to students and experienced field archaeologists. In paperback, and in spiral-bound versions that are designed especially for the field and lab. Quick identification guides, extensive introductions...

Studies in Ottonian, Romanesque and Gothic Art

Rosalie Green's work primarily focused on European art from the 11th and 12th centuries, particularly the Hortus Deliciarum manuscript. Her extensive research included bronze reliefs, ivories, and manuscript illumination. This collection compiles her work from over four decades, including a new p...

A Manual of Egyptian Pottery, Vol. Three

The first comprehensive guide to Egyptian pottery from earliest (Fayum A) to modern day. Invaluable to students and experienced field archaeologists. In paperback, and in spiral-bound versions that are designed especially for the field and lab. Quick identification guides, extensive introductions...

Mosaics of Thessaloniki (English language edition)

The only modern publication on the mosaics of the major Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki aimed at specialist and general reader. The mosaic decoration of the Rotonda, Hosios David, Ayia Sophia, Ayioi Apostoloi and the basilicas of Ayios Dimitrios and the Acheiropoietos are included. 358 col il...

Medieval Armenian Art and Architecture

The Church of the Holy Cross at Aght'amar is a well-preserved medieval Armenian architectural gem on an island in Lake Van; its exterior sculptures and interior murals offer insight into the tenth-century Armenian kingdom of Vaspurakan, created by King Gagik. Davies interprets the art and biblica...

Studies in Manuscript Illumination, 1200-1400

This volume compiles twenty-six studies centred on illuminated manuscripts created in 13th and 14th century England, especially illuminated psalters. The book delves into the marginal illustrations in these psalters and includes iconographic studies. Additionally, it covers illustrated encycloped...

Rock Art at Little Lake

Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize. The product of ten years of fieldwork at Little Lake Ranch in the Rose Valley, the southern gateway to the Owens Valley, this book presents the results of intensive rock art analyses carried out by the interdisciplinary research team of the UCLA Ro...

History of Art since 1945 (Greek language edition)

The History of Art after the Second World War is an important chapter in world cultural heritage. Abstract Art, Expressionism, Realism and many other avant garde movements which developed up to the 21st Century, as well as their exponents are presented in this book. Revised and expanded second ed...

Acropolis (Russian language edition)

Designed to be a useful travel companion. Descriptions and interpretation show the monuments of Athens in a different way and help visitors to understand the historical, artistic and political events that contributed to their creation. 95 col. illus.  Russian language edition.

Artists' Art in the Renaissance

Presents case studies highlighting a class of C15th Italian art created privately by artists for personal satisfaction. It examines works by Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Bellini and Titian, focusing on their testaments and inventories to uncover the meaning behind these works of...

Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar

Most of this issue of BES is devoted to "Abbreviations in Egyptology," a comprehensive research tool that provides scholars with more than 5200 abbreviations used in Egyptological and Biblical literature. It is of particular use to those without ready access to the Lexikon der Ägyptologie. 

Visible Spirit, Vol. II

The themes of this collection include historicism, commemoration, style and meaning, and the artist's intelligence. Lavin covers various aspects of the life and art of Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini Bernini's, in these three volumes. The studies have been updated and are accompanied by a com...

Delphi and its Museum (Greek Language edition)

The three sites at Delphi (the Sanctuary of Apollo, the Sanctuary of Athena and the Gymnasium) and the Museum are described in detail. Covers the Pythian festival and the Delphic rituals. Written in an accessible style; incorporates the results of the latest research and conservation of the sanct...

Studies in Medieval Art

Eleven studies by C. M. Kauffmann over 20 years cover Romanesque and Gothic art, including panel paintings, the Bury Bible, and English Romanesque book illumination. Catalog for V&A Museum exhibit, with updated notes and preface.

Vital Expression (English language edition)

Ιoannis Makriyannis (1797-1864) was a Greek politician and author, best known for his Memoirs. Τhis series of 24 paintings depicting episodes from the Greek War of Independence of 1821 and from the Memoirs, belonged to King Otto of Greece, the first monarch of ‘modern’ Greece. 78 col. illus. Engl...

Images in Action

Presents interpretations of a large corpus of art and iconography from the Southern and South-Central Andes, bringing together the most esteemed scholars in the field. Uses artifacts, artworks, textiles, archaeology, and architecture to develop new insights on the cultural interactions between pe...

Oi Agioi Topoi

This book is devoted to a category of manuscripts known as proskynetaria, which contain descriptions of the monuments of Palestine, especially the Christian ones. The manuscripts have many similarities with modern travel books, or with tourist guides to archaeological sites. Greek language text. ...

Gee Vaucher

This book situates and critically assesses the substantial body of work created by Gee Vaucher within a lineage of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art history, including radical art production of the 1970s, political protest and street art and punk design, as well as cultural, socio-economic,...

Morrissey

An influential star of British pop for more than three decades, Morrissey is known for his outspoken and often controversial views on class, ethnicity, and sexuality. Among critics and his many fans, he has long been seen as an anti-establishment figure who continues to provoke devotion, argument...

Studio Seeing

A compelling case for vision-based pedagogy. It provides a wealth of insights, guidance, and exercises grounded in Gestalt perceptual theory and neurological research. The premise is that a student of drawing or painting must develop skills to see and create, using ground-directed looking rather ...

Worlds Unbound

A comprehensive overview of the vision and achievements of Tokyo-based digital art collective teamLab, which illuminates the remarkable scope of teamLab’s groundbreaking art and its fundamental contribution to the pivotal field of new media art. The lavishly illustrated volume features an extensi...

Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life

This richly illustrated volume explores critical and visual practices through the lens of intersections between pattern and chaos. It challenges disciplinary boundaries, perception and communication, often referencing the in-between territory of art and science through experimentation and visual ...

Animals and Artists

This book explores a selection of artistic representations of animals. Positioned within contemporary debates around the animal question, it challenges anthropocentric beliefs about the all-knowing, rational and speaking human subject and argues that the irrationality of animal worlds marks the v...

Landscape and the Moving Image

New exploration of how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists’ film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day. An informed, personal view from a high profile author considering if appreciation of nature’s aestheti...

Performance Art in Practice

The book approaches performance art from a pedagogical aspect. With concrete descriptions of workshops and classroom rehearsals it opens up the practices of several experienced art university teachers and their philosophies as artists and educators. 30 b&w illus. The Prewords chapter is avai...

The Otherness of the Everyday

Based on a series of conversations, convened by Jiang Jiehong, director of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University. Individuals from a range of disciplines including anthropology, architecture, art, curating, fashion, film, literature, music and photography reflect on exper...