"A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar". What happens next? In lively and accessible prose, color science expert Roy S. Berns helps the reader understand complex color-technology concepts and...

A rigorous account of the European origins of American art museums American art museums share a mission and format that differ from those of their European counterparts, which often have origins in aristocratic collections. This groundbreaking work r...

The Mogao grottoes in northwestern China, located near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of Buddhist art. In some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi dese...

In 2008, the Berlin Antikensammlung initiated a project with the J. Paul Getty Museum to conserve a group of ancient funerary vases from southern Italy. Monumental in scale and richly decorated, these magnificent vessels were discovered in hundreds o...

This fiery and influential book, available for the first time in English, presents an Italian Futurist's radical ideas about art and architecture "Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism)", a truly radical book by Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916),...

Theodore Rousseau (1812-1867), arguably the most important French landscape artist of the mid-nineteenth century and a leader of the so-called Barbizon School, occupies a crucial moment of transition from the idealizing effects of academic painting t...

A revised and expanded edition of a key text for librarians, scholars, and museum professionals Metadata provides a means of indexing, accessing, preserving, and discovering digital resources. The volume of digital information available over electron...

Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, and fabricated black chalks and crayons; fixatives; various papers; and many lifting devices gave rise...

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...

In the 1960s, a group of Los Angeles artists fashioned a body of work that has come to be known as the LA Look or West Coast Minimalism. Its distinct aesthetic is characterized by clean lines, simple shapes, and pristine reflective or translucent sur...