In this extraordinary explication of one of the most enigmatic and influential works of the Renaissance, the "Uffizi Circumcision of Christ", Jack M. Greenstein reassesses the nature and goals of high humanist narrative painting. Contents: List o...

"Ancestral Connections" unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu – an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land – and applying both anthropological and art histori...

Sayre defines for the first time the apparently diffuse avant-garde art of the past two decades in terms of its distinctly postmodern concerns. The range of arts discussed here encompasses contemporary dance, photography, oral poetics, performance ar...

How do pictures tell stories? Why does the literary romance so often refer to paintings and other visual art objects? Beginning with these two seemingly unrelated questions, Wendy Steiner reveals an intricate exchange between the visual arts and the...

Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. The Power of Images: Response and Repression 2. The God in the Image 3. The Value of the Commonplace 4. The Myth of Aniconism 5. Consecration: Making Images Work 6. Image and Pilgrimage 7. The...

What do Renaissance poetry and painting have in common? What are the social, ideological, and aesthetic bases for the links between them? And what role do those links play in creating the humanistic culture that still has power over us today? These...

Contents: Preface Historical Table 1. Introduction 2. Physical History of the Painting 3. The Sources of the Composition 4. The Setting 5. The Portraits 6. The Subject 7. Art Historical Context Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations In...

Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Berlin 3. Dresden 4. Munich 5. The End of Expressionism Notes Select Bibliography Index

In "A Social History of Modern Art", a sweeping multivolume social history of Western art from the French Revolution to World War I, Albert Boime moves beyond the concern with style and form that has traditionally characterized the study of art histo...

Animals play a special role in Indian culture. In opposition to deities, they help to frame the human community. Indian philosophy assumes the basic unity of animals and humans and in everyday life animals symbolize various ideas and sentiments. In t...