The year 2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and the beginning of the conflict that would become known as World War I. In addition to the devastating loss of human life, the Great War...

Over the past half-century, American artist and critic Robert Morris (b. 1931) has been a key figure in the history of minimal, post-minimal and conceptual art. Between 1960 and 1965, part of his artistic output consisted of approximately 100 "object...

A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem the Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as "La Divina Commedia", or "The Divine Comedy". Guiseppe Mazzotta brings Dant...

This is the most innovative, comprehensive and scholarly bilingual dictionary of Russian idioms available today. It includes close to 14,000 idioms, set expressions and sayings found in contemporary colloquial Russian and in literature from the ninet...

The Dominican friars of late-medieval Italy were vowed to a life of religious poverty. Yet their churches contained many visual riches, as this groundbreaking study reveals. Works by supreme practitioners – Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and Simone Martini...

This important volume explores three unique performance art practices of the 1970s and early 1980s: "object theater" (in which artists engage directly with the objects in the world around them); "loft performance" (where artists performed in lofts, s...

"Rimbaud the Son", widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking work examines the storied life of the French poet Arthur Rimbau...

Robert Indiana's popular LOVE works have made the esteemed Pop artist a household name. Their fame and ubiquity have also served to eclipse the rest of his dynamic, conceptually charged work. "Robert Indiana: The American Dream" is a compelling reass...

For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictat...

"Russian Full Circle" is a fresh approach to the Russian textbook. Deliberately "bare-bones" in its design, this textbook allows instructors to deliver in one academic year a full first-year Russian language curriculum. It consists of ten lessons tha...