Representing beasts in early medieval england and scandinavia

Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself.For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered ...

Transforming image, 2nd ed.

Riemenschneider and late medieval alabaster

At the center of this publication is Tilman Riemenschneider’s Saint Jerome and the Lion, one of the masterpieces of the Cleveland Museum of Art.Riemenschneider’s Saint Jerome is not only one of the artist’s more important early masterpieces, it is also his only alabaster work in a collection in t...

Echoes of the supernatural

Over six decades of brilliant prints and paintings from the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation.Finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, a BC & Yukon Book Prize Since leaving Haida Gwaii to study art in Vancouver—where he carved argillite with Bill Reid in a d...

Chinese art and dynastic time

A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art historyThroughout Chinese history, dynastic time—the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties—has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chine...

Where the power is

Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art brings together contemporary Indigenous knowledge holders with extraordinary works of historical Northwest Coast art that transcend the category of “art” or “artifact” and embody distinct ways of knowing and being in the world. Do...

Bronzino’s lodovico capponi

New volume in the Frick Diptych series focuses on an enigmatic Renaissance portrait, pairing an essay by Frick curator Aimee Ng with a contribution by bestselling author Daniel Mendelsohn.Painted about 1550–50 by Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503–1572), this remarkable portrait depicts the young Flo...

Bold truths

20 unique prints encapsulating the most important lessons The School of Life has to teach. Bold Truths is a collection of philosophical lessons immortalized as 20 colorful art prints. From the UK's leading artists and designers, these ready-made posters can be easily lifted out and displayed. The...

Zapantera negra

An encounter between Emory Douglas of the Black Panthers and autonomous Indigenous and Zapatista communities helps us understand the role of revolutionary art in times of distress.

Architecture and the public good

The best chance for ethically grounding the architecture profession is in the public good that results from licensing but architects have done an unconvincing job of communicating the nature of this good. This dissects the underlying tensions causing this situation and proposes solutions that wou...

The art and science of the church screen in medieval europe

Fresh examinations of one of the most important church furnishings of the middle ages.The churches of medieval Europe contained richly carved and painted screens, placed between the altar and the congregation; they survive in particularly high numbers in England, despite being partly dismantled d...

Knowledge within

Dempsey bob

Dempsey Bob: In His Own Voice is based on the first full-scale solo museum exhibition of this extraordinary Tahltan-Tlingit artist, one of the finest living carvers of the Northwest Coast. Drawing from extensive interviews with the artist by the exhibition’s co-curator, Sarah Milroy, the book pre...

The beautiful traditional colors of japan

Across asia and the islamic world

A new collection volume highlighting the strengths, variety and sheer wonder of The Walters Art Museum’s unique Asian and Islamic collectionsThe Walters Art Museum is among America’s most distinctive museums, forging connections between people and art from cultures around the world and spanning s...

Melodrama, masculinity and international art cinema

This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.

Symbols and myth-making in modernity

‘Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity’ unpacks the deep culture that nourishes human perception of reality through symbols. From ancient, mythical creatures and rites through Renaissance masterpieces to cinema, religion and art, the book illustrates how ever-present symbols erupt in popular cultu...

Indigenous media arts in canada

A timely and crucial collection of essays and conversations focused on Indigenous-settler cultural politics and the ethics of Indigenous representation in Canada’s media arts that explores issues of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance and decolonizing creative practices.

Exploring black & white

In this book, renowned illustrator Victor Escandell offers a step-by-step explanation of ten different techniques and their multiple variations, so that, through experimentation, apparently simple black and white drawings or paintings gain added depth and expressiveness. Now in paperback, this vi...

Amazonian indigenous cultures in art and anthropological exhibitions

The book discusses the representation of Amazonian indigenous cultures in exhibitions from a postcolonial perspective through the analysis of several temporary exhibitions taking place in both art and anthropological institutions from the 1980s onwards.

Problem invention

Auspicious animals

The world of mythical creatures born from human imagination is presented in this beautiful collection of artworks that symbolize good luck.Many imaginary animals that are believed to be auspicious symbols of good fortune originated in ancient China. The most famous examples are the “Big Four”: th...

The death of urbanism

The ukiyo-e 2020

Godzilla

More than bauhaus

Grand-guignol cinema and the horror genre

Grand-Gugignol Cinema and the Horror Genre maps important contributions of the Parisian Grand-Guignol theatre’s Golden Age as theoretical considerations of embodiment and affect in the development of horror cinema in the twentieth century. This study traces key components of the Grand-Guignol sta...

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Sakuna: of rice and ruin artworks

Flexible

How to make yourself a feminist design power tool

Perspectives on architectural design research

A mos architects

Feminist futures of spatial practice

Yokai

Expanded architecture

The colonial and national formations of the national college of arts, lahore, circa 1870s to 1960s

The book, using archival sources, examines the colonial and postcolonial history of arts education in Pakistan through the National College of Arts, founded as the Mayo School of Arts in 1875. It deconstructs art history and anthropology frameworks embedded in imperial and national discourses, po...

Africa’s struggle for its art

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa’s Struggle for I...

Performing matter

Fundamentals of planning cities for healthy living

The proposed book illustrates the decline of community planning for healthy living and outlines measures that can be reintroduced to foster active lifestyles.

Dementia-friendly hospital buildings

Paolo veneziano’s coronation of the virgin

The eighth volume in the Frick Diptych series focuses on a stunning fourteenth-century painting, pairing an essay by Frick deputy director Xavier F. Salomon with a fascinating contribution from contemporary composer Nico Muhly.According to Muhly, The Coronation of the Virgin is “a panel of pure t...

Climax change!

Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture, both in terms of its design philosophy and rising opportunities to innovate and radically transform the current tenet of architecture’s aesth...

Emotions, ethics, and cinematic experience

Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience explores how these two approaches might work together to create a philosophy of film that is both descriptively rich and theoretical...

Eighty-eight views of mt. fuji

Art and value

Art and Value is the first comprehensive analysis of art's political economy throughout classical, neoclassical and Marxist economics.