This volume provides a collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture. Aimed at students of art history as... Læs mere
In almost thirty interviews, Donatien Grau probes some of the world's most prominent thinkers and preeminent arts leaders on the past, present, and future of the encyclopedic museum.
This collection of unique works by 150 Los Angeles graffiti and tattoo artists represents an unprecedented collaboration across the city's diverse artistic landscape.
Repairing works of art and writing about them-the practices that became art conservation and art history-share a common ancestry. This handsomely illustrated volume charts the... Læs mere
Originally coined by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg in 1930, the term concrete denotes abstract painting with no... Læs mere
Stunning portraits by the renowned Renaissance artist illuminate fascinating figures from the European merchant class, intellectual elite, and court of King Henry VIII.
This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan's rapid modernization.
The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical revisionism in Spain in the late 1700s.
This illustrated volume examines the different methods artists and anatomists used to reveal the inner workings of the human body and evoke wonder in its form.
This book offers the most detailed investigation thus far of the materials and methods of this key American Abstract Expressionist artist.
This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture.
This innovative volume is the first to address the conservation of contemporary art made from biological materials such as plants, foods, and bodily fluids.