A study of the concept of artistic process in the Western tradition of the visual arts. Focuses on modern and contemporary art and analyzes the development of process as a discourse that increasingly locates the primary value of art in the artist’s creative labor.
Studies the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, focusing on the Medici engagement with the New World and its effects on collecting and art production in Florence during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Addresses the question of how and why Horace Walpole and the men of his circle promoted the Gothic style in art, architecture, and literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
An exploration of the portrait art of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, focusing on his studio practice and his training of students.
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.
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.
This study seeks to situate Bazille within the complex art world of the 1860s. It examines a series of major paintings and critical essays by Bazille and his contemporaries and frames them within the modernist discourse about purity, or respecting the proper limits of the medium.
A series of linked essays that considers different aspects of Matisse's life and work, revealing how the artist worked against many of the main tenets of modernism.
A collection of essays examining the Australian Citizens' Parliament, a project in deliberative democracy held in 2009.... Læs mere
The essays in this anthology explore the full spectrum of Plato's philosopy and represent a variety of perspectives in feminist criticism. The essays include discussions... Læs mere
A collection of essays by philosophers, political scientists and legal scholars, exploring a range of topics dealing... Læs mere