A shoemaker's story

On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufacturer. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then--remarkably--their new employer lined the...

A vibrant voyage from china

This book showcases the pith paper paintings collected by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library.

Art history 101 . . . without the exams

A millennia of art history condensed into 20 accessible chapters

Aubrey beardsley

This 240-page book, Aubrey Beardsley: The Decadent Magician of the Light and the Darkness, reveals the core of the artist Aubrey Beardsley through more than 180 of his art works, compiled under the supervision of Hiroshi Unno, a critic and a writer who has contributed to many books on the fin-de-...

Ballet russes: the great "ballet russes" and modern art

Black out

The first book highlighting the historical roots and contemporary implications of the silhouette as an American art formBefore the advent of photography in 1839, Americans were consumed by the fashion for silhouette portraits. Economical in every sense, the small, stark profiles cost far less tha...

Committed to memory

How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembranceOne of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it expo...

Cubism and futurism

At its inception, the cinema was understood by many to be an electric art, akin to X-rays, coloured light, and sonic energy. This book examines the two movements’ engagement with the Faraday and Maxwell’s new science of energy, and shows energy came to be understood as a spiritual phenomenon and ...

Exploring the invisible

How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired F...

Geometry of shadows

Gathered from early twentieth-century Italian magazines, manuscripts, correspondence, television recordings, and ephemeral art volumes, Geometry of Shadows is the first comprehensive collection of Giorgio de Chirico’s Italian poetry, with award-winning poet Stefania Heim's translations presented ...

Homecoming

A celebration of the art and career of Walter Osborne (1859–1903), one of Ireland’s leading landscape and portrait painters.Published to coincide with the artist’s first monographic exhibition organized in the United States, Homecoming: Walter Osborne’s Portraits of Dublin, 1880–1900 explores the...

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Montmartre

An entirely fresh study of how, at the end of the nineteenth century, the neighborhood of Montmartre nurtured a vital, innovative and unique community of artists who revolutionized Western art.After the 1871 Paris Commune, Montmartre played a significant artistic role; its unique geographical, po...

Soulmaker

A personal reassessment of Lewis Hine's iconic, haunting photos of child workers in the early twentieth centuryBetween 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874–1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United S...

The art of decadence: european fantasy art of the fin-de-siècle

A magnificent visual history of Decadence, Aestheticism and Symbolism.

The art of fantasy, sci-fi and steampunk

A beautiful visual history book of fantasy art from Romanticism and steampunk to modern illustrations from novels. Art has always been one of the most vivid ways to express people’s imagination. Fantasy art illustrates the full range of human fears and dreams, from mythology, the Bible, and the a...

The essential frank lloyd wright

He was the most iconoclastic of architects, and at the height of his career his output of writings about architecture was as prolific and visionary as his architecture itself. Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered a bold new kind of architecture, one in which the spirit of modern man truly "lived in his b...

The invention of ›outsider art‹

Marion Scherr investigates structural inequalities and the myth of the Other in Western art history, examining the role of ›Outsider Art‹ in contemporary art worlds in the UK.

The scandinavian home

A wide-ranging study of the intertwined notions of home and homeland that were central to the art and material culture of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland in the second half of the nineteenth century.The arts played a crucial role in reinforcing a shared sense of belonging amongst Nordic coun...

The sweet life

An entirely new exploration of the life and career of the expat American artist Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855-1919), who spent nearly all his life in Paris, and whose oil paintings feature in private collections and those of many major museums on both sides of the Atlantic.Stewart’s paintings are ...

The triumph of nature

The Triumph of Nature returns us vividly to an entrancing time in European decorative arts, from its beginnings in the Arts and Crafts movement and Japonisme, through to its evolution into Art Deco style.An exuberant, radical style, Art Nouveau blithely trampled many of the Victorian Age’s orthod...

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Wittgenstein's ethics and modern warfare

Explores Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and cultural representations of the Great War. The book suggests a reinterpretation of Wittgenstein’s moral philosophy by relating it to the philosopher’s own war experience, applying this revised concept of ethics to analyze the ethical dimension o...