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This text provides a study of the origins and 17th-century significance of prints by Claes Jansz Visscher, Esaias van den Velde, Willem Buytewech and Jan van de Velde, which were seminal in the subsequent development of naturalistic native Dutch scenery in prints and paintings.

This is a study of the significance of Degas's painting "A Cotton Office in New Orleans", in terms of its representation of 19th-century capitalism. The study concentrates on the social meanings of the painting in the light of shifting audiences and changing market conditions.

This is a picture of Dali's life and art, with an approach somewhere between biography, Freudian analysis, and art and literary interpretation. Dali is shown as haunted by the devouring phantom of his mother, the praying mantis on whose portrait he would like to spit.

This volume contains a full description of the Gospel Lectionary held in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library, USA. An unusual 12th-century work, it was one of only three such manuscripts made in Constantinople, and the only one of these to contain narrative illustration.

The Gothic architecture and stained glass of medieval Lorraine developed strong regional characteristics which are considered unique today. This volume presents a study of Lorraine's surviving stained glass, focusing on Metz Cathedral and other cathedrals and rural parish churches in the area.

This work is a portrait of Michelangelo.

This volume of the College Art Association Monograph series presents a study of the Bigallo at Florence.

Presents a study of this ancient manuscript.

This volume of the College Art Association Monograph series examines the Romanesque wood doors of Auvergne.

Analyzes the politics and economics of architecture and the building process in seventeenth-century Rome. Explores topics ranging from the financing of construction to the availability of materials and personnel.

Examines three projects in late nineteenth-century scientific photography: the endeavors of Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Develops new theoretical perspectives on the history of photographic technology, as well as the history of scientific imaging more generally.

Examines German broadsides published in America from 1730 to 1830. Through them, explores aspects of the German-American world, including printing, religious practices, social life, politics, education, farming, economics, and medicine.

A study based on the text, the Lives of the Artists, by Giorgio Vasari. Discusses how the visual arts in the Renaisssance were an occasion for delight or pleasure. Argues that such an attention was encouraged by certain social and intellectual practices.

This collection of photographs focuses upon a group of young people - some were runaways - who in 1993 established a communal, home in an abandoned glass factory on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

During the 1960s, artists such as Alan Kaprow, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol stopped making "art", they staged performances that mixed everyday life with theatre and challenged the system of marketing, display and aesthetic discourses. This work brings together a cross- section of such endeavours.

Beginning in the 1950s, the Lancaster Redevelopment Authority adopted urban renewal programmes to revitalize a downtown that was experiencing economic decline. This text charts this redevelopment, and is an examination of a northern city struggling with its history and the legacy of segregation.

Every epoch produces its own notions of social change, and the post-Communist societies of Eastern Europe are no exception. This text explores the fate of contemporary Latvia, a small country with a big story that is relevant for the understanding of the nature of post-Communist transitions.

This text, inspired by Wittgenstein as well as feminist and critical race theory, shines a light on the background to discrimination and violence in society, in order to show that we all share more responsibility for the persistence of oppressive social practices than we commonly suppose.

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.

An exploration of the portrait art of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, focusing on his studio practice and his training of students.

A cultural and poetic analysis of the art and science of taxidermy, from sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art.

Covers the Assembly terms from 1757 through 1775, a period that witnessed the French and Indian War, the expansion of Pennsylvania with the addition of Bedford, Northumberland, and Westmoreland counties, the Stamp Act crisis, the development of extra-legal committees, the creation of county militias, and the overthrow of the colonial government.

A history of Union County, Pennsylvania, from its earliest days when Chief Shikellamy was there and when settlers ventured into the frontier area. First published at the time of the nation's bicentennial, it explores the development and growth of the different townships and boroughs.

Explores how the Renaissance artist Hans Holbein the Younger came to develop his mature artistic styles through the key historical contexts framing his work: the controversies of the Reformation and Renaissance debates about rhetoric.

Offers a chronological account of political engagement in works by the early modern Northern European painters Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Frans Snyders. This book examines the ways in which these Netherlandish painters seized on that imagery and creatively transformed it into the materials of art.

Will Barnet has approached painting through sustained exploration of the relationship between abstract, geometric forms and the processes of perception. This book examines the paintings, drawings, and prints Barnet made in the 1960s, the decade when Barnet portrayed his family and renegotiated his commitment to pure abstraction.

Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how images, pictures, and paintings are conceptualized. Issues discussed include concepts such as "image" and "picture" in and outside the West; semiotics; whether images are products of discourse; religious meanings; and the ethics of viewing.

Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard's creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870.

An English translation of Da pintura antiga by the sixteenth-century Portuguese artist Francisco de Hollanda, who was sent to Rome in 1538 by the Portuguese royal family to study art and architecture. Contains a treatise on painting and four dialogues, three featuring Michelangelo.

An inventory of the private possessions of Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, head of the ruling Medici family during the apogee of the Florentine Renaissance.