(Pub. Date: 05-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC, ISBN-13: 9781805700364)
Unpack the powerful visual symbols artists have used throughout history.From a single flower to a carefully placed skull, works of art across history are filled with symbols that carry powerful meanings. The Symbols of Art reveals how artists use the...More info...
(Pub. Date: 05-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Old Street Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781917532228)
Fascinating and timely JOHN BANVILLEDegenerate Art was the end of the first act of Hitlers Reich, the cultural and spiritual "e;coordination"e; of the German people. The Nazi exhibition of Degenerate Art in 1937 was meant to show all t...More info...
(Pub. Date: 05-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Old Street Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781917532242)
The exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists was the closest thing, metaphorically, to a bomb in the National Gallery. It was, as one of its organisers, Clive Bell, later remarked, "e;the Art-Quake of 1910"e;. Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse,...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040918951)
This collection introduces the transnational dimensions of contemporary Italian comics to the predominantly Anglophone arena of comics studies. The volume explores how Italian comics culture transcends geographical and linguistic borders, revealing t...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040918999)
This collection introduces the transnational dimensions of contemporary Italian comics to the predominantly Anglophone arena of comics studies. The volume explores how Italian comics culture transcends geographical and linguistic borders, revealing t...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111338958)
During the last decades of the 19th century, women used the camera, still a new technological apparatus, to establish independent lives as professional photographers. Women photographers had a particularly strong position in the Nordic countries, whe...More info...
The surprising story of how the plain black suit became a symbol of masculinity, democracy, and modernity.How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has mens business clothing been so plain for the last 250 years? How did a style adopted by the F...More info...
The surprising story of how the plain black suit became a symbol of masculinity, democracy, and modernity.How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has mens business clothing been so plain for the last 250 years? How did a style adopted by the F...More info...
Series: The Visual Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478062127)
Moving Stones explores the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the nineteenth century. Blending biography, history, and theory, Jennifer DeVere Brody approaches Lewiss legacy...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855806229)
Offers a panoramic view of New York City in the 1920s, uncovering hidden histories from within entertainment, politics, arts, technology, and the law.Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City, unearthing stories...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855806236)
Offers a panoramic view of New York City in the 1920s, uncovering hidden histories from within entertainment, politics, arts, technology, and the law.Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City, unearthing stories...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040488430)
Doing Gender in Media, Art, and Culture provides a critical introduction to recent developments in cultural gender studies. Focussing primarily on the fields of art, culture, and media, it encompasses literary, historical, film, performance, and indi...More info...
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040504130)
Through the lens of contemporary art, this book focuses on social ecologies and those spaces that are characterized, on the one hand, by a high degree of biodiversity and, on the other, by a long history of the extraction of resources, (neo)colonial...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040721780)
Doing Gender in Media, Art, and Culture provides a critical introduction to recent developments in cultural gender studies. Focussing primarily on the fields of art, culture, and media, it encompasses literary, historical, film, performance, and indi...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040571972)
Offering a new view of nineteenth-century American landscape painting, this book focuses on the praxis of open-air painting and its distinctive role in generating and invigorating a new conceptualization of American landscape painting in the late nin...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040605158)
Offering a new view of nineteenth-century American landscape painting, this book focuses on the praxis of open-air painting and its distinctive role in generating and invigorating a new conceptualization of American landscape painting in the late nin...More info...
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040715468)
Through the lens of contemporary art, this book focuses on social ecologies and those spaces that are characterized, on the one hand, by a high degree of biodiversity and, on the other, by a long history of the extraction of resources, (neo)colonial...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399529662)
Andrew Benjamin approaches the relationship between philosophy and art history through the concept of gesture. Critically engaging with Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg and Giorgio Agamben, by focusing on gesture he offers a novel philosophical intervent...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399529655)
Andrew Benjamin approaches the relationship between philosophy and art history through the concept of gesture. Critically engaging with Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg and Giorgio Agamben, by focusing on gesture he offers a novel philosophical intervent...More info...
Minimalist Music looks critically into the musics past, shows how the genre thrives across styles, and points the way toward minimalisms ongoing future.Minimalism as a genre is best defined not by any style or flavor but by its means. Certain rhy...More info...
