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Highlights images of architecture from Greek temples to Gothic cathedrals to modern-day skyscrape...

Through analysis of Ed Ruscha's visionary Streets of Los Angeles Archive, this volume provides ne...

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'The first English-language volume to explore the work of architect Leopold Fischer, and the inau...

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The first truly comprehensive analysis of the history, practice, and conservation of painting on c...

An exciting new approach to understanding the trade of antiquities in early modern Rome traces th...

This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Globa...

A maverick in the history of photography, Ishiuchi Miyako (b. 1947) burst onto the scene in Tokyo...

The first anthology to assemble the writings of the groundbreaking art historian, critic, and cur...

A compelling and vibrant exploration of one of the greatest Flemish illuminated manuscripts, incl...

This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early mod...

A firsthand account of the life and work of Barbara T. Smith, one of the most important yet under...

Abundantly illustrated, this essential volume examines depictions of the Underworld in southern I...

In the margin, for quick access by the reader, is a summary of the essential characteristics of t...

This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) from the 1940s through the ...

The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish paint...

The copy in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, created in the early fifteenth century, i...

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A visual celebration of one of photography's most enduring and evocative subjects. It surveys the...

Since the advent of the avant-garde in the early twentieth century, visual artists have adopted n...

This handsomely illustrated volume traces the intersections of art history and paintings restorat...

Winner of the Latin American Studies Association's 2022 Best Book in Colonial Latin American Stud...

The great Renaissance artist Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) rivals Leonardo da Vinci as one of hist...

For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is ...

This volume provides a striking account of the life, destruction, rediscovery, and cultural signi...

In almost thirty interviews, Donatien Grau probes some of the world's most prominent thinkers and...

Investigates the idea of beauty over time and space. This book offers a chronological account who...

Provides an illustrated analysis of the symbolic imagery found in gardens throughout history. Thi...

The first English-language book to comprehensively discuss the history and methodology of conserv...

A heavily illustrated tribute to Los Angeles architect Pierre Koenig, a key figure of the Los Ang...

From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the easte...

The next title in the respected Artist's Materials series offers groundbreaking analysis of Sam F...

Presenting new scholarship, this publication is an innovative technical study of the Concrete art...

What is a pyxis? Who was the Amasis Painter? How did Greek vases get their distinctive black and ...

A series of analytic, personal essays that explain how Mark Rothko's most compelling creations el...

Stunning portraits by the renowned Renaissance artist illuminate fascinating figures from the Eur...

Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Jean Antoine Watteau's death, this publication takes a...

This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan's rapi...

Among the earliest written texts on the history and theory of Netherlandish art, these two key wr...

For the first time, Anton Wagner's groundbreaking 1935 book that launched the study of Los Angele...

This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery...

The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seven...

This illustrated volume examines the different methods artists and anatomists used to reveal the ...

This innovative volume is the first to address the conservation of contemporary art incorporating...