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Recounts the publication history of nearly fifty books illustrated by Henri Matisse, including Lettres portugaises, Mallarmé’s Poésies, and Matisse's own Jazz.... Læs mere
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An interdisciplinary reappraisal of the field of Mennonite writing in Canada and the United States. Essays explore the unique configuration of religious and ethnic cultural difference.
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A collection of essays examining how patterns of use and attitudes to green spaces within William Penn’s Philadelphia city plan and along the... Læs mere
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Presents the story of the Chanka people of Peru, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, told through a narrative of the crimes committed by a priest, Juan Bautista de Albadán, in the early 1600s.
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The great poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was also an extremely influential art critic. "High Art" relates the philosophical issues posed by Baudelaire's art writing to the theory and practice of modernist and postmodernist painting.
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Introduces a cycle of sixth-century mosaics. This work provides a comprehensive account of the history and meaning of the mosaics along with photographic documentation of the ensemble.
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One of Jacques-Louis David's most ambitious and darkly enigmatic paintings, "Leonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae", hangs in... Læs mere
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Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the leading artists of the early twentieth century, to be ranked alongside such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, and Pollock in... Læs mere
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Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how contemporary global art is conceptualized. Issues discussed include globalism and globalization, internationalism and nationality, empire and capitalism.
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The pace and scale of the exchange of cultural goods of all sorts increased sharply in 19th century Spain, and new institutions and practices for exhibiting "art" were soon formed. Vazquez maps this cultural landscape.
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Carl Brandon Strehlke, Adjunct Curator has prepared a scholarly examination of the Johnson Collection. His discussion of such art historical questions as dating and attribution combines extensive archival research with technical study of the paintings.
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Many patrons of the arts in 19th-century America collected paintings and sculpture from England or Italy. Collectors in Baltimore looked to France... Læs mere