"Art History and Emergency" assesses art history's role and responsibilities in what has been described as the "humanities crisis" – the perceived decline in the practical applications of the humanities in modern times. This timely collection of crit...

Now available in a new format, this lavishly illustrated volume explores Art Deco art and design from its origin to its present day influences. The Art Deco style is so recognizable and widespread that its original impact on the culture in which it...

"Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt" introduces readers to three thousand years of Egypt's ancient history by unveiling its famous leaders – the pharaohs – using some of the finest objects from the vast holdings of the British Museum. In an introductory...

Inspired by Klimt's famous mural "The Tree of Life", this dreamily illustrated children's book tells the story of a magical tree whose fruit saves lives. Painted during the artist's "golden period", Gustav Klimt's "The Tree of Life" has been interpr...

This important volume offers the first comprehensive look at the Arthur Ross Collection-more than 1,000 18th- to 20th-century Italian, French, and Spanish prints-and is published to mark the inaugural exhibition of the collection in its new home at t...

During Qing dynasty China, Italian artists were hired through Jesuit missionaries by the imperial workshops in Beijing. In "The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699 1812", Marco Musillo considers the professional adaptations...

Drawing upon the Cleveland Museum of Art's world-renowned collection of Chinese paintings, this volume presents an insightful study of a newly acquired work that occasions dialogue between traditional forms of art and contemporary environmental issue...

The exhibition "A Fact Has No Appearance" explores the impact of new ideas on art in Southeast Asia during the 1970s through the case studies of three artists: Johnny Manahan, Redza Piyadasa, and Tan Teng-Kee, all of whom have been recognised for bre...

Now available again, this book offers an illustrated portrait of a romance, partnership, and creative dialogue between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz that continues to resonate today. Few creative alliances flourished as productively as that...

One of the most distinctive features of Islamic design is the evolution of an increasingly abstract and repetitive repertoire of motifs, which are shared among all media – metalwork, woodwork, ceramics, tilework and textiles. In textiles the main the...