Art & Visual Culture: History of Art

By Lisa Fellows Andrus

First published in 1977. The purpose of this study is to locate the sources for the American style of painting characterised by measure and design – the representation of the specific and familiar according to principles of pictorial order. The reader shall see that there were a variety of…

Paperback – 2020-06-01 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

By John Charles Olmsted

First published in 1980. This anthology of fifty-three essays drawn from eleven weekly, monthly, and quarterly periodicals was assembled in order to reproduce in convenient form some of the more important articles on British painting published from 1832 to 1848 in Great Britain. Reviews of major…

Paperback – 2020-06-01 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

By John Charles Olmsted

First published in 1983. This anthology of sixty-nine essays drawn from fourteen different journals was assembled in order to reproduce in convenient form some of the more important articles on British painting published from 1849 to 1860 in Great Britain. Reviews of major exhibitions form a large…

Paperback – 2020-06-01 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

By firstname surname

Published in 1981: This book is an illustrated catologue of Fine Art paintings from 1789-1889.…

Paperback – 2020-04-08 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Elizabeth Emery, Laura Morowitz

First published in 2003 Consuming the Past covers pilgrimages to popular festivals, from modern spectacles to advertising, from the work of avant-garde painters to the novels of Emile Zola, and explores the complexity of the fin-de-siècle French fascination with the Middle Ages. The authors map the…

Paperback – 2020-03-31 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch

The 16th century bronze plaques from the kingdom of Benin are among the most recognized masterpieces of African art, and yet many details of their commission and installation in the palace in Benin City, Nigeria, are little understood. The Benin Plaques, A 16th Century Imperial Monument is a…

Paperback – 2020-03-02 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Art History

Edited by Octavian Esanu

This edited scholarly volume offers a perspective on the history of the genre of the nude in the Middle East and includes contributions written by scholars from several disciplines (art history, history, anthropology). Each chapter provides a distinct perspective on the early days of the fine arts…

Paperback – 2020-03-02 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Art History

By Katherine T. Brown

Mater Misericordiae—Mother of Mercy—emerged as one of the most prolific subjects in central Italian art from the late thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries. With iconographic origins in Marian cult relics brought from Palestine to Constantinople in the fifth century, the amalgam of attributes…

Paperback – 2020-02-28 
Routledge

Edited by Tessel M. Bauduin, Victoria Ferentinou, Daniel Zamani

This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes and techniques by Surrealist artists and writers in Europe and the Americas, from the 1920s through the 1960s. Its central focus is the…

Paperback – 2020-02-28 
Routledge
Studies in Surrealism

By Gabriel N. Gee

Based on rare archival material and numerous interviews with practitioners, Art in the North of England 1979-2008 analyses the relation between political and economic changes stemming from the 1980s and artistic developments in the principal cities of the North of England in the late 20th century.…

Paperback – 2020-02-28 
Routledge
British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700

Edited by Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes, Heidi Stoner

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, presenting a scholarly introduction written by the editors alongside thematic case studies that address a wide range of visual and textual material. The…

Paperback – 2020-02-28 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Art History

By J. Pedro Lorente

First published in 1998, this volume explores the expanding wave of a new kind of museums of contemporary art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lorente examines their ‘coming of age’ and the weight of their museological legacy, arguing that the establishment of great national museums…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge