Böcker i Art History Special Issues-serien

Photography After Conceptual Art presents a series of original essays that address substantive theoretical, historical, and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium. It explores the relation between recent art, theory and aesthetics, for which photography serves as an important test case.

A cross--section of current state of the art Ingres scholarship. The book includes the work of established authors and new researchers. The book contains a rich and unusual range of illustrations from the Ingres corpus.

This volume brings together historians and art historians to explore the ways in which religious art was transformed by the splintering of Western Christendom that began 500 years ago with Martin Luther s Reformation. The religious turmoil of the sixteenth century has long been seen as a turning point in the history of Christian art.

Material Imagination examines the interrelated concepts of matter, materialism, and materiality in postwar European art, from 1946-1972. These eight essays explore artists methods and materials in order to better understand the social and cultural environments in which their works of art were made.

These essaysexplore the relationship between artistic and technological advances from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. Together they provide a broad definition of technology for this period and address the influence of technological shifts on the history of early modern art.

Scale, or the relative dimension of an object, has long been one of the most crucial elements in the creation, circulation, and reception of art. Often mistaken as size, scale is the impetus behind the profoundly visceral ways in which we perceive and interpret works of art.

The theory and practice of imitation has long been central to the construction of art and yet imitation is still frequently confused with copying. Theorizing Imitation in the Visual Arts challenges this prejudice by revealing the ubiquity of the practice across cultures and geographical borders.

The Clever Object presents a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways objects materialise, embody, or negotiate various forms of intelligence, revealing the use of the idea of the clever object as an analytic tool of art-historical interpretation.

The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art presents a collection of provocative essays that explore the material qualities of early Dutch art to reveal ways new forms of visual imagery solicit a beholder s involvement.

For the first time, a distinguished line-up of scholars from both America and the UK consider the complex history of artistic relations between Britain and the USA, covering the years from the colonial period to the 1960s.

Creative Writing and Art History considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing. Essays range from the analysis of historical examples of art historical writing that have a creative element to examinations of contemporary modes of creative writing about art.

Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture offers the first systematic investigation of exchanges between the arts, architecture and the theatre. The authors present many new instances of the interaction between the arts, providing a theoretical and historiographical context for these interactions.

Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World presents a collection of 12 original essays that examine the circulation of objects across global regions and cultures from the 16th to 18th centuries. Essays reveal the importance of mobility for understanding the production, use, and meanings of early modern art.

Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction.

This book examines key moments in the emergence of London as a metropolis and considers different ways in which its image has been formulated and presented.

Mieke Bal is a leading scholar in art history and visual studies, with an international reputation in the English-speaking world. About Mieke Bal provides the first sustained scholarly assessment of Bal's writings in art history, visual studies, and critical theory.

In the ten years since Carol Duncan's Civilising Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (1995), public and scholarly interest in the way that art and the visual have been displayed and are presented has increased enormously. This volume brings the discussions up to date.

Other Objects of Desire; Collectors and Collecting Queerly explores gay identities and identifications as they are communicated in and through art, and provides a critical approach to the study of collectors and collecting.

A collection of essays by art historians, anthropologists and commentators on contemporary visual culture on the theme of 'Location'.

* A collection of essays reflecting on the influence of Stephen Bann on the fields of visual studies, art history and cultural history. * Written by a distinguished group of eminent scholars. * Engages with a wide range of subjects from French art and architecture to histories of the garden and painting in China.

This collection brings together studies on the French decorative arts in the eighteenth century, extending from bookbinding, typography and engraving to those related specifically to the domestic interior: porcelain, upholstery and furniture. * A collection of studies on the French decorative arts in the eighteenth century.

This innovative collection of essays offers exciting new research and thoughtful reflection on the subject of visual culture and its relationship to art history. Brings together innovative scholarship by major scholars. Engages with cross-cultural questions, asking if attention to visual culture is a western preoccupation.

A distinguished group of art historians reflect on the work of Michael Baxandall, in terms of its importance for their own formation, its location in the development of a new art history, and its influence on the broader languages and theories of contemporary cultural theory.

* A thought--provoking book exploring the increasing visibility of contemporary women's art in Britain, Europe and America.