History of art Books

Book SynopsisDeniers and ducats, groats and guilders, crowns and cruzados: this fun, engaging and beautifully illustrated little book explores the role of money and medals in William Shakespeare's world and work.

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Book SynopsisThe British Museum has the largest and finest collection of antiquities from Egypt and the Sudan outside of those countries. Packed with information and insights, this classic book contains over 200 of the most important objects, including the most famous (such as the Rosetta Stone) and also a selection of lesser-known but equally significant or beautiful pieces.

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Book SynopsisTakes a fresh look at the life of Nero (r. AD 54â68), providing insight into the inner conflicts of a Roman society in transition and challenging preconceptions of a figure dismissed by a hostile source-tradition as tyrannical, deluded and ineffectual.Table of ContentsIntroduction – approaches to Nero; the source tradition 1. Nero and the family of Augustus – Augustus and the system of the principate; Julio-Claudian society; Nero’s family 2. Power and succession – Nero’s accession; expectations of the new reign; poetry and imagery 3. Conflict and reform – Nero and the military; external conflicts; the Armenian War; Britain and the Boudicca rebellion 4. Spectacle and splendor – Nero’s reforms and major projects; public entertainment; Nero on stage 5. Passion and discord – the imperial family; Nero’s wives and daughter 6. Fire – the great fire of Rome of AD 64 7. The new Apollo – Nero’s palaces and the Domus Aurea; luxury and elite society; diplomacy and triumph 8. Crisis and death – internal conflict and elite resistance; rebellion; Nero’s death; civil war; ‘False Neros’ and Nero’s enduring popularity Bibliography Credits Index

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Book SynopsisDisplaying the beauty and skill of Chinese ink paintings through a selection of highlights from the British Museum's collection, Modern Chinese Ink Paintings features hanging scrolls, hand scrolls, large-scale paintings and album leaves to explore the innovative contributions of individual masters from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the spectacular collections of the Museum del Oro in Bogota and the British Museum, this beautiful book features over 100 masterpieces fashioned exquisitely in gold and its alloy tumbaga, including small votive figures, decorative nose rings and earrings, vessels, pectorals and masks.

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Book SynopsisIdeal as a spur to creative inspiration, this beautiful book offers a striking and unusual view of the wide array of Pacific art, evoking the skills of the most accomplished Pacific artists and craftworkers, past and present.

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Book SynopsisGermany Divided explores a selection of unpublished and unseen works from some of the leading names in contemporary art. Showcased are key works from six artists who re-defined art in Germany in the second half of the twentieth century: Georg Baselitz; Marcus Lüpertz; Blinky Palermo; A.R. Penck; Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter.

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Book SynopsisA catalogue of the unique collection of modern and contemporary prints and drawings of film critic and author Alexander Walker (19302003).

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Book SynopsisAimed at the general reader and relevant to many academic disciplines, this book explores the ways people acquired new information, organised their ideas and reached their conclusions.Trade Review"'Affirmative and enjoyable' The Art Newspaper; 'Visually and textually stunning...' The Good Book Guide"Table of ContentsPreface by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum; Part I: The 'Universal' Museum; 1 'Aimed at universality and belonging to the nation': The Enlightenment and the British Museum; 2 Collectors and commemoration: portrait sculpture and paintings in the British Museum; 3 'Most curious, splendid and useful': the King's Library of George III; 4 The King's Library and its architectural genesis; 5 Ancient glory and modern learning: the sculpture-decorated library; Part II: The Natural World; 6 Challenging the dogma: classifying and describing the natural world; 7 Natural history collectors and their collections: 'simpling macaronis' and instruments of empire; 8 The nature of the earth and the fossil debate; 9 Rocks, fossils and the emergence of palaeontology; Part III: The Artificial World; 10 The ordering of the artificial world: collecting, classification and progress; 11 'The King loves medals': the study of coins in Europe and Britain; 12 Engraved gems: the lost art of antiquity; 13 Words and pictures: Greek vases and their classification; 14 Between antiquarianism and experiment: Hans Sloane, George III and collecting science; 15 King George III's topographical collection: a Georglan view of Britain and the world; Part IV: Ancient Civilizations: New Interpretations; 16 Ideas of antiquity: classical and other ancient civilizations in the age of Enlightenment; 17 The discovery of British antiquity; 18 From Persepolis to Babylon and Nineveh: the rediscovery of the ancient Near East; 19 'The curse of Babel': the Enlightenment and the study of writing; 20 Sacred history? The difficult subject of religion; Part V: Voyages of Discovery; 21 Venture to the exterior; 22 Romancing the Americas: public expeditions and private research c. 1778-1827; 23 Irresistible objects: collecting in the Pacific and Australia in the reign of George III; 24 Trade and learning: the European 'discovery' of the East; 25 Africa: in the shadow of the Enlightenment

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Book SynopsisThe ultimate picture book â packed with wonderful, quirky, amusing and delightful images from the British Museum. There is no text at all: the pictures, and combinations of pictures, speak for themselves

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Book SynopsisPublished on the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's extraordinary voyages of exploration, this publication reflects on and charts the enduring legacies of his encounters with Pacific peoples.

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Book SynopsisThe Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith describes his life and career.

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Book SynopsisA guide to this seminal American Arts & Crafts figure.Trade Review"This well-illustrated book is essential reading for students of design history and an inspiration for designers and makers."—Times Higher Education Supplement "Handsome large-format and well-illustrated volume."—The Art Newspaper "This gorgeous book is the first comprehensive account of the life and work of the father of the American Arts & Crafts movement."—Antiques Magazine "ell-documented and extensively illustrated... Makes use of a number of untapped sources... The book not only offers many new facts and insights into Stickley’s life and his designs, it also provides a very useful biographical collaborators... Cathers has added much to our understanding of the man himself."—The Burlington Magazine "As the first comprehensive and authoritative account of Stickley’s life and works, the volume, by David Cathers, can be valued as much for its historical content as its aesthetic quality."—American Style "The book is filled with quality images of the finest examples of Stickley’s work... The book sets itself apart from all others devoted to Stickley or the period by presenting the complete history of Gustav Stickley, the man and manufacturer. This is thoroughly accomplished through both intricate text and also through a plethora of photographs."—Antiques "The furniture of Gustav Stickley long has been recognized as occupying a high place in the American Art & Crafts movement and has been collected for decades. Still, only now, more than 60 years after his death, is there a text that comprehensively treats his achievements. It brings together images from The Craftsman, the seminal magazine Stickley founded, with contemporary color photographs of individual pieces of furniture to complement the first detailed account of his life and art. The period photographs are indispensable, and readers who are strangers to Stickley’s world will find especially helpful the appendix that provides brief biographies of his creative collaborators."—The Chicago Tribune "A lavish, comprehensive monograph on the life and, in particular, the work of an originator of the Arts & Crafts furniture design movement in the United States, is a fine, deep, and impressive exploration…Produced on heavy, glossy paper stock, with several hundred illustrations, both color and black-and-white photography, and line drawings, this work meticulously highlights Stickley’s enormous contribution to design. The bibliography and index make this volume particularly useful."—Library Journal "Amply illustrated with newly commissioned photographs of Stickley furniture, textiles and metalwork, period photographs and images drawn from The Craftsman, this handsome volume includes, in addition to the chronology, notes and index, profiles of Stickley’s many creative collaborators and an illustrated sequence tracing the evolution of a single design, the fall-front desk, from 1900 to 1905."—American Craft "This handsomely illustrated book is the best authority we have on the clef figure in an enormously influential movement."—Interior Design "Eclipsing all others, this book is now the definitive study of Stickley and his production. Through careful, well-documented research, a comprehensive picture of the man emerges from the text and outstanding pictures from historical sources, including fine, detailed color plates of furniture."—Choice "Cathers’s vivid descriptions of the day-to-day workings of Stickley’s enterprises and the creation of the Craftsman style but also the archival photographs and color plates from The Craftsman magazine, together with good color pictures, some of them details, of the finest Craftsman furniture are what make this book fascinating."—Maine Antiques Digest "If you are interested in Arts & Crafts then, with no qualifications whatsoever, you simply must own this book. Period."—The New York-Pennsylvania Collector

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Book SynopsisA landmark appreciation of this towering figure in contemporary paintingTrade Review"Katz's art combines the eye-jarring quality of Matisse with a distinctively American cool."—Independent On the Contemporary Artists Series"The boldest, best executed, and most far-reaching publishing project devoted to contemporary art. These books will revolutionize the way contemporary art is presented and written about."—Artforum "The combination of intelligent analysis, personal insight, useful facts and plentiful pictures is a superb format invaluable for specialists but also interesting for casual readers, it makes these books a must for the library of anyone who cares about contemporary art."—Time Out "A unique series of informative monographs on individual artists."—The Sunday Times "Gives the reader the impression of a personal encounter with the artists. Apart from the writing which is lucid and illuminating, it is undoubtedly the wealth of lavish illustrations which makes looking at these books a satisfying entertainment."—The Art Book

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Book SynopsisThe first-ever monograph on Reynaud-Dewar, one of today’s most celebrated multimedia artists

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Book SynopsisThe highly anticipated fifth volume of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, covering his paintings from 1976 to 1978Trade Review"With an uncanny prescience in anticipating our fascination with brands, celebrity, even selfies, Warhol was the painter of modern life."—Guardian"Warhol currently enjoys an enviable combination of popular appeal, market success, and critical recognition. His work is widely agreed to hold an important - and, if anything, growing - place in histories of post-1945 artistic production."—Independent"Whatever American pop art was, Warhol embodied it more than any other figure; no one was more central than Andy, in his choice of subjects, in his manner of making the work, and in his take on consumer culture. He left the modernist traditions behind and opened the door to the postmodern generation."—Walter Hopps, The New Yorker"The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, nothing short of a Sisyphean task to compile, is one of the outstanding examples of its genre. Originally inspired by the Swiss dealer Thomas Ammann, it has been primarily assembled by Neil Printz and Sally King-Nero - who deserve kudos along with its publisher Phaidon... As an art authenticator, I frequently consult its pages. I continually marvel at its extensive details and high-quality reproductions. The catalogue has extended my knowledge of Warhol's work. It's always reassuring when its facts corroborate my own research - or force me to reconsider my position. I cannot imagine how difficult my job would be if the Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné didn't exist."—Richard Polsky, Artlyst.com"This is THE most accurate and comprehensive catalog of approximately 15,000 works produced by Warhol."—Departures Online"The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, volume 5, Paintings 1976-1978, is a two-book publication that demonstrates the subversive core of Warhol's art. While the work of these years includes self-portraits and portraits of athletes, Warhol was intent on radically departing from his portraiture of the early 1970s."—Gagosian Quarterly"The definitive resource on Andy Warhol."—Hypebeast online

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Book SynopsisThe first monograph on a rising star who is one of contemporary art's most celebrated painters

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Book SynopsisA biographical study of the Victorian church artist Charles Eamer Kempe and his considerable influence on church decoration worldwide.Trade Review"Forget what you knew, or thought you knew, about Kempe! Adrian Barlow's reexamination of the life, art and work of Charles Eamer Kempe and his circle is a masterful exercise in biography and art history." Dr Jasmine Allen, Curator, The Stained Glass Museum, Ely "This is a timely and long-awaited study of the work of C.E. Kempe and his successor company, not only in stained glass but within a wider context of later 19th and early 20th century design and the Arts and Crafts movement. Its illustrations draw attention to the consistently high quality of the firm's work and the informative text should put its reputation where it properly belongs, equal to and sometimes even above its contemporary rivals." Dr Donald Buttress, LVO, OBE, Surveyor Emeritus of Westminster Abbey 'Adrian Barlow's book is a scholarly biography of the outstanding and prolific stained-glass artist Charles Kempe.' Goodall, John, Country Life, pg92, 9th January 2019 'One comes away with a sense of the shape of Kempe's life, an interesting set of insights into his working methods, and, above all, the sense that he's a considerable artist.' 'Adrian Barlow's Kempe will send people back to the work, with much more background knowledge, with a clearer understanding of how his big Victorian studio worked, and, above all, with new enthusiasm and new eyes.' - Phillip Wilk, 'Into the Light', English Buildings, 29 November 2018 "This book is invaluable for the way in which it adds significantly to our understanding of the man, the studio, the works and the era" - Jonathan Evens, Artway.eu, http://www.artway.eu/content.php?id=2704&lang=en&action=sho "excellent new book" -Michael Hall, Apollo, December 2018, pp.24-25 "Drawing on sustained research, much of it using material only recently rediscovered, this is a splendid account of Kempe and his world" -William Whyte, Church Times, 17 January 2019, https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2019/18january/books-arts/book-reviews/kempe-the-life-art-andlegacy-of-charles-eamer-kempe-adrian-barlo Balow's presentation of the life, art, and influence of Kempe is compelling. Reading Religion, 2020 "Gives and expert account of the external circumstances of Kempe's career" Nicholas Shrimpton, Modern Believing, pp. 293-295, July 2020 excellent ... Adrian barlow shows an urgency and vitality to Charles Eamer Kempe's life and career Graham McLaren, Ecclesiology Today vol. 58, June 2020 Meticulously-researched and very readable biography of C.E. Kempe. Michael Kerney, The Journal of Stained Glass, Volume XLII,2018Table of ContentsIllustrations Foreword and Acknowledgements Prologue The Wheatsheaf and the Pelican Part One: Life Chapter 1 Sussex - School - Oxford Chapter 2 Starting Out: Kempe and G.F. Bodley Chapter 3 The Kempe Studio (i): Wyndham Hope Hughes Chapter 4 The Kempe Studio (ii): John Carter Chapter 5 The Kempe Studio (iii): John William Lisle Part Two: Art Chapter 6 Kempe Glass in Close-up: Friends, Patrons, Virtues Part Three: Legacy Chapter 7 Kempe and Old Place Chapter 8 Kempe and Walter Tower Chapter 9 Kempe's Reputation Glossary Notes and References Gazetteer Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe practice of mask-wearing has a long history, even becoming mandatory in times of global crisis. In this useful contribution to the performing arts curriculum, Maskword: The Background, Making and Use of Masks takes a new look at the creative and timeless art of masks and mask-making, while also exploring their cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present day.Drawing on her extensive experience in professional theatre and running workshops, Foreman promotes the life-affirming qualities of masks, providing us with an invaluable resource for artists and teachers, as well as parents seeking activities for children at home. Eight themed projects use photographs to document masks and mask-making techniques, with each one offering practical advice and design ideas; materials are inexpensive and easy to acquire.With photographs by Richard Penton.Trade Review"One of the main strengths of this book lies in the author's ability to present complex philosophical issues in a very pragmatic way ... Practical advice is purposefully presented in the context of much wider and more complex issues relating to cultural identity, human expression and communication; the underlying issues that place masks in their social, cultural and spiritual context. It reminds us of the importance of critical appreciation, self-expression and a moving away from the all too familiar process-based approach to teaching art and design. These are the qualities that give Maskwork its heightened significance for art and design education." Mary Greenacre, in The Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol 20.2Table of ContentsPrologue Acknowledgements of Photographs Introduction What are Masks? Masks as Resources Planning a Project Project 1: First Steps Exploring the medium, tools and skills before making a mask. An 'ice-breaker' or forerunner to paper maskmaking for all ages. Project 2: Shape-Masks Improvising with paper construction to create masks ranging from the simple to the spectacular. Project 3: Changing Faces Making a plate mask as a lively 'way in' to character work and physical theatre techniques. Project 4: Symmetry & Collage Making symmetrical half-masks and full-face collage masks (built up from magazine images) with activities combining drama and the other arts. Project 5: Theatre, Mask & Myth Devising drama productions based on myths and involving the construction of full-face (helmet-masks) and head-masks (crest-headdress masks) using traditional models. Project 6: Character & Commedia Exploring paper gum-strip techniques to create masks of professional standard on any theme or character (human, animal or fantasy). Commedia dell'arte is given as an example. Project 7: Gods, Dragons & Demons A resource chapter of mask-making ideas and activities inspired by mythological archetypes, suitable for festivals, parades and plays. Project 8: Masquerade Suggestions for mask-making techniques involving papier-mâché, clay, plaster of Paris and fibreglass. Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis The Andy Warhol Inspirational Sketchbook is perfect for creativity and visual learning. Complete with 120 pages, including 12 full-color pages of legendary quotes from Warhol, this sketchbook is a must-have. Write, draw, and design on the empty pages, and find the interspersed inspiration from Warhol along the way! • Sketchbook: 8 x 10.5 • 120 pages in total • 108 blank pages for ideating and creating • 12 full color Warhol art/quotes • Wire-O binding

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewScarboro’s ground-breaking study explores the textured experience of life under communism in postwar Bulgaria. With erudition, pointed anaylsis, and a marked thematic originality, this work reveals the complexity of a system in which state and society were intricately intertwined. Far from exposing human complicity or duplicity, Scarboro’s analysis posits the interdependence of ruler and ruled in a way that questions traditional notions of totalitarianism under communism. -- Mary Neuburger, University of Texas at AustinThe best regional studies shed light on broader trends, and Cristofer Scarboro's work illuminates national and even transnational issues. He brings a much needed challenge to the historiography of socialist humanism in this regional study of Haskovo, Bulgaria and shows the complex and fluid nature of socialism and the construction of subjectivity. The regime's attempts to create a monolithic structure collided with the multiple ways of understanding, living, and using the culture being foisted upon citizens. What remains is a perfect example of the law of unintended consequences. This is a model study for this period in eastern Europe. -- Karl Qualls, Dickinson CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Creating Socialist Humanism Chapter 2. "Stroim za rodinata" Chapter 3. Haskovo and Tashkent: Brothers in Socialism Chapter 4. Touring, the Sacred and the Socialist Self Chapter 5. Plotting the Self in the Socialist Humanist Art Gallery Chapter 6. Conclusions: Socialist Humanism: Promises and Perils Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPreserving art, freedom, and human dignity in the age of the totalitarian state was one of the great challenges of the twentieth century. In Centaur, Slavic scholar Albert Leong chronicles the life and work of the greatest living Russian sculptor and philosopher of art. Based on extensive research in the formerly closed Soviet archives, exclusive interviews with Neizvestny, his family, and friends, Centaur tells the amazing story of a visionary artist and World War II commando officer who narrowly escaped death on the battlefield, successfully defied Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and the KGB to create acclaimed works of monumental art. Forced into exile to the West in 1976, Ernst Neizvestny returned in triumph to the Soviet Union in 1989 to design the first monuments in Russia to the countless victims of Stalinist political repression. Supplemented by 75 photographs, Centaur will engross specialists and general readers interested in biography, cultural history, art, architecture, politTrade ReviewAlbert Leong has written an outstanding book on the life and oeuvre of Ernst Neizvestny. Centaur is both thrilling in its narrative and fundamental in its analyses. Ernst Neizvestny is a gigantic personality of our time. I am proud to have been close to him for decades witnessing his quest for independence and outbursts of his genius. -- Vassily Aksyonov, author of Generations of WinterCentaur: The Life and Art of Ernst Neizvestny is the first full biography of the most prominent and artistically accomplished sculptor and memorial-builder of the Soviet era. [Leong] excels at placing Neizvestny in the context of Soviet political and cultural history, and examining how he was misunderstood initially in the United States because of cold war stereotypes. Centaur is a serious and worthy consideration of the vexing moral and philosophical issues underlying the career of a courageous artist who (like Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Mstislav Rostropovich) confronted the evil of the Soviet system mano a mano. -- Harlow Robinson * The New York Times *Centaur describes an artist whose life, work, and reputation are almost mythic in nature. Ernst Neizvestny is a visionary and pragmatist—the ultimate survivor. Author Albert Leong distills encyclopedic research to provide a synthesis of a complex era and a compelling individual. -- Alison Hilton, Georgetown UniversityThis is a book for those interested in the details of 20th-century Russian art with its social and political ramifications. * CHOICE *Albert Leong's detailed, and highly documented account of the numerous twists and turns in Neizvestnii's long, complex, and highly diverse artistic career to date offers some fascinating insights into the problems faced by the monumental sculptor in the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond. Sadly, Albert Leong died shortly after the publication of Centaur. May the book long serve as a suitable epitaph for a man whose passion, dedication, and enthusiasm for Neizvestnii's work is inscribed within each and every word of this text. * Seer *Ernst Neizvestny answered the official demands for optimistic 'depiction of life in the life's forms' with his tragic and highly symbolic grotesques. Albert Leong's sensitive study shows Neizvestny as a child of his time as well as a true heir to the Russian early 20th century avant-garde, with its peculiar quest for the synthesis of art, philosophy, and religion. -- Lev Loseff * Dartmouth College *Centaur is a truthful and beautiful work of art in its concept, subject, and design. * Slavic and East European Journal *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: The Odyssey of a Russian Artist Chapter 2 Roots of a Russian Centaur Chapter 3 The Formation of an Artist in the Soviet Union Chapter 4 The Artist in War Chapter 5 Riga Chapter 6 Moscow Chapter 7 The Challenger Chapter 8 Art Intrigues Chapter 9 Confrontation with Khrushchev Chapter 10 The Years of Disfavor Chapter 11 Ernst Neizvestny, Monumentalist Chapter 12 Road to Emigration Chapter 13 Exile Chapter 14 Return to Russia Chapter 15 The Gulag Triangle Chapter 16 Mask of Mourning Chapter 17 Shelter Found

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Book SynopsisThe reader is invited to view Islamic art as no more and no less than ordinary art, neither better nor worse than anything else that counts as art. It follows that there are no special techniques required in Islamic aesthetics as compared with any other form of aesthetics.Trade ReviewOliver Leaman has written yet another challenging and iconoclastic work. This is a useful and imaginative project and clearly fills a need! Leaman is an accomplished and productive author and the book will be of genuine and considerable interest. -- Professor Lenn E. Goodman, Vanderbilt University, Nashville Oliver Leaman is a very distinguished, internationally regarded scholar of philosophy! his profound philosophical knowledge enables him to apply and analyse concepts of aesthetics to a multitude of art forms. -- Professor Ian R. Netton, University of Leeds ... although it claims to be but an introduction to the subject, it is an engaging and comprehensive one, with up-to-the-minute, primary-sourced chapters on literature, music, the Qur'an and medieval philosophies of seeing, not to mention the four on the visual arts. -- British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Oliver Leaman has written yet another challenging and iconoclastic work. This is a useful and imaginative project and clearly fills a need! Leaman is an accomplished and productive author and the book will be of genuine and considerable interest. Oliver Leaman is a very distinguished, internationally regarded scholar of philosophy! his profound philosophical knowledge enables him to apply and analyse concepts of aesthetics to a multitude of art forms. ... although it claims to be but an introduction to the subject, it is an engaging and comprehensive one, with up-to-the-minute, primary-sourced chapters on literature, music, the Qur'an and medieval philosophies of seeing, not to mention the four on the visual arts.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; 1. Eleven Common Mistakes about Islamic Art; 2. God as Creator, Calligraphy and Symbolism; 3. Religion, Style and Art; 4. Literature; 5. Music; 6. Home and Garden; 7. The Miraculousness of the Qur'an; 8. Philosophy and Ways of Seeing; 9. Interpreting Art, Interpreting Islam, Interpreting Philosophy; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Qur'anic Passages; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn concise entries from international experts, this dictionary presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals, highlighting their genealogy, their modernist 'newness', and their historical longevity.

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Book SynopsisIn concise entries from international experts, this dictionary presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals, highlighting their genealogy, their modernist 'newness', and their historical longevity.

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Book SynopsisPresents original and authoritative assessments of the changing relationship between the Bible and the artsIn this unique Companion, 35 scholars, from world-famous to just beginning, explore the role of the Bible in art and of artistic motifs in the Bible. The specially commissioned chapters demonstrate that just as the arts have portrayed biblical stories in a variety of ways and media over the centuries, so what we call ''the'' Bible is not actually a single entity but has been composed of fiercely contested translations of texts in many languages, whose selection has depended historically on a variety of cultural pressures, theological, social, and, not least, aesthetic.Divided into 3 sections, Inspiration and Theory, Art and Architecture, and Literature, this generously illustrated collection includes a wide spectrum of thoughtful essays on aesthetic interpretations of specific biblical books; of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles as a whole; the transmission of biblical texts; various bindings and illustrations of Bibles - in response to pressures as diverse as Islamic craftsmanship and the English Reformation; as well as biblical influences on poetry, painting, church architecture, decoration, and stained glass; on poetry, hymns, novels, plays, and fantasy literature from the earliest days of the Christian era to the present.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction, Stephen Prickett; INSPIRATION AND THEORY; 2. 'What has Athens to do with Jerusalem ?' The Biblical Chain-Gang, Stephen Prickett; 3. Hebrew Aesthetics and Jewish Biblical Exegesis, Mordechai Z. Cohen; 4. Migne's Achievement and the Modern Transmission of Ancient Manuscripts, Dan Williams; 5. Augustine on Beauty: a Biblical Aesthetics, David Lyle Jeffrey; 6. Sublimity and Resistance to Form in the Early Modern Bible, Anthony Ossa-Richardson; 7. 'A Babel of Bibles': Aesthetics, Translation and Interpretation since 1885, Nicholas Bielby; m8. Lest the Story be Lost: Biblical Fiction, David Dickinson; 9. The Bible and Phenomenology, Kevin Hart; ART AND ARCHITECTURE; 10. The Gospel of John in Early Christian Art, Robin Margaret Jensen; 11. Images of Conflict: the art of Anti-Judaism in Fifth Century Rome, Geri Parlby; 12. A Shared Tradition: The Decorated Pages of Medieval Bibles and Qur'ans, Vivian B. Mann; 13. Speaking Pictures: Mediaeval Religious Art and its Viewers, Charles Moseley; 14. The Iconography of the Cross as the Tree of Life, Christopher Irvine; 15. Art and the Resurrection Narrative, Christopher Herbert; 16. Covenants and Connections: the Sassetti Chapel at Santa Trinita, Chloe Reddaway; 17. Who Framed Bathsheba? Vivianne Westbrook; 18. The Fresco Decoration in the Sistine Chapel: Biblical Authority and the Church of Rome, Shirley Smith; 19. The Materiality and Iconography of the Coverdale Bible (1535), Mark Rankin and Guido Latre; 20. Moses in Eighteenth Century Art, Nigel Aston; 21. Blake: Text and Image, Christopher Rowland; 22. The Angel in the Detail: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass, Christopher Rogers; 23. Framing the Vision: Biblical Imagery in the Work of Van Gogh, Daphne Lawson; 24. Coventry Cathedral: Conception and Reality, Sarah Hosking; HYMNS; 25. Hymns of the Wesleys, J.R. Watson; 26. The Bible Interpreted by Hymns, Robin Gill; LITERATURE; 27. The Art of Unveiling: Biblical Apocalypse, Christopher Burdon; 28. The Divine Comedy as the Word of God, Patricia Erskine-Hill; 29. The Mediaeval Bible as Literature, Alastair Minnis & Andrew Kraebel; 30. Homer Writes Back: Rhetorical Art and Biblical Epic Justice in Paradise Lost, Book 1, Phillip Donnelly; 31. Heart-Deep: The Psalms and George Herbert, Christopher Hodgkins; 32. From Virtue to Goodness: Biblical Values in Victorian Literature, Jan-Melissa Schramm; 33. The Mirror of the Law of Liberty: Reflecting the Hidden Christ in George Macdonald's Lilith, Bethany Bear; 34. Images of the Creator/Creation from Frankenstein to Nietzsche, Norbert Lennartz; 35. Eliot Among the Theologians, Jan Gorak; 36. Imitatio Pilati et Christi in Modern Historical Drama, James Alexander.

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Book SynopsisThe first book by Helene Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts. These 11 chapters bring together Helene Cixous' writings about specific contemporary artists and artworks. Neither simply 'art criticism' nor critical essays, Cixous responds to these artworks as a poet, reading them as if they were poems.Trade ReviewAn important collection of essays on art by one of France's leading writers and literary figures. -- Mairead Hanrahan, Department of French, University College London It will likely surprise and delight English readers to realize the extent of Cixous' engagement with contemporary arts, in particular painting, photography and film, one that has been frequent, sustained and especially intense over the last few years. -- Peggy Kamuf, Department of French, University of Southern California An important collection of essays on art by one of France's leading writers and literary figures. It will likely surprise and delight English readers to realize the extent of Cixous' engagement with contemporary arts, in particular painting, photography and film, one that has been frequent, sustained and especially intense over the last few years.Table of Contents0. "Helene Cixous, in Art as in Dreams", Joana Maso and Marta Segarra; 1. "Paintings"; 2. "Spero's Dissidances"; 3. "Ernest's Imagic"; 4. "See the Neverbeforeseen"; 5. "Portraits of Portraits. The Very Day/Light of Roni Horn"; 6. "K-A Notebook"; 7. "Shit, No Present: Faecetious Serrrano"; 8. "Inheriting/Inventing with Jeffrey Gibson"; 9. "Filming the Invisible Becoming"; 10. "Sonia Rykiel in Translation"; 11. "The Train Stop, or Anna's Resurrections".

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Book SynopsisThe first illustrated scholarly work devoted to the reception and reputation of Edinburgh's premier Enlightenment portrait painter.

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Book SynopsisAn Artist's War

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Book SynopsisThe Artist and the State, 1777-1855: The Politics of Universal History in British & French Painting is the first book-length study to examine political uses of ''universal history'', or the philosophy of history, in European art from 1777 to 1855. Daniel R. Guernsey discusses a range of mural paintings and sculptural works produced in England and France between the American Revolution and the Universal Exposition of 1855, comparing the ways artists such as James Barry, Eugène Delacroix, Paul Chenavard, David d''Angers, and Gustave Courbet expressed linear or cyclical histories of progress and decline. By considering the work of these important European artists together, he reveals not only the rich artistic interaction that took place between England and France - as well as Germany - at this time, but also how the notion of ''universal history'' was to become a major preoccupation in the work of these individual artists, each one participating in shaping a highly significant mode of eiTrade Review'This deeply researched, original book maps cultural exchanges among French and British artists through history paintings. Guernsey convincingly argues for profound cross-geographical connections rarely explored in much scholarship that is too often limited to one country.' Julie F. Codell, Arizona State University, author of The Victorian Artist (2003) As a piece of intellectual history, Guernsey‘s work makes a genuine contribution, deepening our understanding of the ideological nuances of well-known but still perplexing works. His source material is wide-ranging, his grasp of it impressive, and his choice of textual sources is generally convincing and historically justified. ...Guernsey‘s four case studies, particularly that on Delacroix, make significant and original contributions to the literature devoted to each artist, and, taken together, elaborate a sophisticated and thought-provoking thesis. Caa.reviews Daniel Guernsey's ambitious, meticulously researched study examines the political uses of universal history in European art from 1777 to 1855. ... Although the individual artists and works that Guernsey investigates have been quite thoroughly studied within a national context, what distinguishes this book is its transnational and comparative approach and its focus on the rich artistic crosscurrents and exchanges between England and France in the years between the American Revolution and the 1855 Exposition. ClioTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Universal history and Protestant dissent in 18th-century England: James Barry's The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture, 1777-1784; Degenerate civilization in France: Eugène Delacroix's library murals in the Palais Bourbon, 1838-1847; Universal history and the French left: Paul Chenavard's Social Palingenesis, 1848-1851; Rousseau's Emile and social palingenesis in Gustave Courbet's The Painters Studio, 1855; Epilogue: the legacy of universal history; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisCrossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, this volume integrates text and image, essays and object pages to explore the processes inherent in gender representation, rather than resituating women in particular categories or spheres as other scholarly publications and exhibitions have done. Taking its lead from the ''Picturing'' Women project on which it reflects and builds, the volume makes a substantial methodological contribution to the analysis of gender discourse and visuality. It offers new and stimulating scholarship that confronts historical patterns of representation that have defined what women were and are seen to be, and presents new contexts for unveiling what art historian Linda Nochlin has called the ''mixed messages'' of representations of women.Trade Review'Re-Framing Representations of Women is nothing short of exhilarating - a cultural collaboration on a grand scale among scholars, artists, curators, and storytellers. The feminist images and essays assembled by editor Susan Shifrin provide the most comprehensive and nuanced picture to date of women in art, literature, fashion history, and material culture.' Wendy Steiner, University of Pennsylvania, USA 'Re-Framing Representations of Women is an exciting collection of pictures and texts that encourages critical thinking about gender in our visual world. This ambitious multimedia project examines medical engravings, advertisements and material culture from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and responses to these images in contemporary art to stimulate viewers' understanding of how ideas about women have been constructed and disseminated. It provides an engaging transnational journey for readers to explore the representations of gender in the past and imagine the paths to be created for the future.' Bridget Cooks, University of California, Irvine, USA ’...thoughtfully designed and well-illustrated volume... Recommended.’ Choice ’This is a physically sumptuous book, beautifully designed with a high quality of image reproduction and a work that offers a significant contribution to existing debates around this issue in a lively and accessible manner.’ Gender and HistoryTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part I Picturing: Object pages: picturing; Who's in the picture? A introduction to 'picturing' women, Susan Shifrin. Part II Figuring: Object pages: figuring; Essay: Figuring the female body; Maudelle Bass: a model body, Carla Williams; Figuring as flora; Figuring the national body; Collections essay: Bryn Mawr College suffragette pageants and parades: fashioning a central and socially integrated identity, Marianne Hansen. Part III Fashioning: Object pages: fashioning; Fashioning female identity; Fashioning the female body; Fashioning national character; Essay:Sleeves, purses, spindles: fashioning women in Cesare Vecellio's costume books, Ann Rosalind Jones; Fashioning the 2 faces of Eve: the mask of beauty and fickle fraud; Fashioning woman; Essay: Felt pictures: the phenomenological fabric of Alison Watt's Shift paintings, Kristin Swan. Part IV Portraiting: Object pages: portraiting; Portraiting conventions; Collections essay: Library Company of Philadelphia. Representative portraits of American women writers from the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia, to which is appended a preliminary checklist, Cornelia King; Types and beauties series; Essay: Not-beautiful: a counter-theme in the history of women's portraiture, Susan Sidlauskas; Essay: Nationalism, lipstick, and kitchen knives: representations of power and society in the case of Vazirani, Alexandra Halkias. Part V Telling: Object pages: telling; Essay: 'Who told you that lie?': picturing Connie Boswell, Laurie Stras; Essay 'Red robe: short story': an interview with Merrill Mason, Kelly Mitchell and Merrill Mason, edited by Susan Shifrin; Bibliography; Indexes.

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Book SynopsisVisually appealing, conceptually startling, and intellectually engaging-these phrases aptly describe the art of Liliana Porter. Florencia Bazzano-Nelson''s study focuses on the principal theme in the Argentine-born artist''s work since the 1970s: her playful but subversive dismantling of the limits that separate everyday reality from the world of illusion and simulacra. Over the years, Porter''s own evolving interest in perception lead the author to explore a series of interconnected and timely issues in her artistic production, such as the representative function of art, the structural links between art and language, and the witty re-signification of the art-historical images and mass-produced kitsch figurines she has so often featured in her art. Strongly founded in critical theory, Bazzano-Nelson''s approach considers Porter''s art as the site of conceptually exciting dialogues with Jorge Luis Borges, René Magritte, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillard. Her carefully crafted interTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Liliana Porter's personal journey; The Magritte Series; In search of imminemt revelations; The subversive inner child; Malice in wonderland; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on W.B. Yeats's ideal of mutual support between the arts, Karen Brown sheds new light on how collaborations and differences between members of the Yeats family circle contributed to the metamorphosis of the Irish Cultural Revival into Irish Modernism. Making use of primary materials and fresh archival evidence, Brown delves into a variety of media including embroidery, print, illustration, theatre, costume design, poetry, and painting. Tracing the artistic relationships and outcome of W.B. Yeats's vision through five case studies, Brown explores the poet's early engagement with artistic tradition, contributions to the Dun Emer and Cuala Industries, collaboration between W.B. Yeats and Norah McGuinness, analysis of Thomas MacGreevy's pictorial poetry, and a study of literary influence and debt between Jack Yeats and Samuel Beckett. Having undertaken extensive archival research relating to word and image studies, Brown considers her findings in historical context, with particTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; W.B. Yeats and the Fraternité des Arts tradition; The Dun Emer and Cuala industries during the Irish cultural revival; W.B. Yeats, Norah McGuinness and Irish modernism; The pictorialist poetics of Thomas MacGreevy; Word and image relations in the later career of Jack Yeats; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisFocusing specifically on portraiture as a genre, this volume challenges scholarly assumptions that regard interior spaces as uniquely feminine. Contributors analyze portraits of men in domestic and studio spaces in France during the long nineteenth century; the preponderance of such portraits alone supports the book''s premise that the alignment of men with public life is oversimplified and more myth than reality. The volume offers analysis of works by a mix of artists, from familiar names such as David, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Rodin, and Matisse to less well-known image makers including Dominique Doncre, Constance Mayer, Anders Zorn and Lucien-Etienne Melingue. The essays cover a range of media from paintings and prints to photographs and sculpture that allows exploration of the relation between masculinity and interiority across the visual culture of the period. The home and other interior spaces emerge from these studies as rich and complex locations for both masculine self-expreTrade Review'The exploration of the theme of masculinity in relation to interiority is long overdue. This volume ameliorates some of the divisions that have haunted the scholarship of this period... a great addition to the roster of 19th century books.' Susan Sidlauskas, Rutgers University, USA 'Overall, the essays make case for the contingency of masculinity and the insufficiency of critical attention to that fact in modernism. While primarily of interest to historians of visual culture, the volume offers ways to understand articulations of masculinity beyond the public/private binary. The collection succeeds in giving shape to the case that understanding interiors, and the interiority expressed within them, has not just value but some urgency.' French History 'The twelve essays themselves cover a broad and exciting range of visual material across the period, from painting and sculpture to photography and fashion. Among fascinating discussions of topics such as family portraiture, the artist’s studio, and the cabinet de travail, the volume also offers engaging reflections on key nineteenth-century figures... All images are beautifully presented and meticulously set out, while an extensive bibliography provides an up-to-date resource for the fields discussed.' French StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Temma Balducci, Heather Belnap Jensen and Pamela J. Warner; The revolution at home: masculinity, domesticity and political identity in family portraiture, 1789-1795, Amy Freund; Picturing paternity: the artist and father-daughter portraiture in post-Revolutionary France, Heather Belnap Jensen; Public and private identities in Delacroix's Portrait of Charles de Mornay and Anatole Demidoff, Jennifer W. Olmsted; At home with the camera: modeling masculinity in early French photography, Laurie Dahlberg; The artist in his studio: dress, milieu, and masculine identity, Heather McPherson; Cézanne, Manet, and the portraits of Zola, Andre Dombrowski; At home in the studio: two group portraits of artists by Bazille and Renoir, Alison Strauber; In bed with Marat: (un)doing masculinity, James Smalls; The competing dialectics of the cabinet de travail: masculinity at the threshold, Pamela J. Warner; Anders Zorn's etched portraits of American men, or the trouble with French masculinity, S. Hollis Clayson; Auguste Rodin, photography, and the construction of masculinity, Natasha Ruiz-Gómez; Matisse and self, the persistent interior, Temma Balducci; Selected bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisUncover the artistic masterworks hidden across New York City in this charmingly illustrated exploration of one of the world's greatest creative treasure troves.There's so much to love about New York, and so much to see. The city is full of art, and architecture, and history -- and not just in museums. Hidden in plain sight, in office building lobbies, on street corners, and tucked into Soho lofts, there's a treasure trove of art waiting to be discovered, and you don't need an art history degree to fall in love with it.Art Hiding in New York is a beautiful, giftable book that explores all of these locations, traversing Manhattan to bring 100 treasures to art lovers and intrepid New York adventurers. Curator and urban explorer Lori Zimmer brings readers along to sites covering the biggest names of the 20th century -- like Jean-Michel Basquiat's studio, iconic Keith Haring murals, the controversial site of Richard Serra's Ti

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Book SynopsisThe first book to survey the works of 38 contemporary painters who are "disrupting" figurative painting with technology- and memory-inspired alterations.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive history and how-to treatise on mezzotint engraving, a printmaking technique known for creating lush tonal gradations and dramatic lighting effects

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Book Synopsis It has long been said that a woman''s hair is her crowning glory. Indeed, throughout history, hair has remained an important cultural symbol of femininity. In medieval art, iconic images of long, flowing locks can express sexuality, and the cutting of a woman''s hair often signals her feminine misbehavior. Artists of all kinds in the Middle Ages used women''s long hair to manipulate their audience''s estimation of their female figures. This interdisciplinary work explores the significance of women''s hair in literature and art from the medieval period through 1525, putting into historical context the ways in which hair participates in construction of the female identity.

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Book SynopsisThis pack contains 200 high-quality, large 6.75 inch origami sheets printed with delicate and colourful chiyogami patterns

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