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A diverse set of contributions to the expanding field of ecocritical studiesSeeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, Picture Ecology offers a diverse range of art...

In this groundbreaking book, Andrei Pop presents a lucid reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century whose work merits the adjective “symbolist.” For Pop, this term denotes an art that is self-conscious about its modes of...

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late...

Pioneering Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is one of the most influential artists working today. Sikander is widely celebrated for expanding and subverting miniature painting to explore gender roles and sexuality, cultural identity, racial...

Art Book, Signed, Sculpture

An intimate and inspiring firsthand encounter with the radical philosophy of the renowned twentieth-century artist Dieter Roth.The oeuvre of Dieter Roth (1930–1998) encompasses painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, film, video, music, typography,...

A comprehensive history and interpretation of the street art movement, featuring all of the key practitioners in a colorful combination of sharp images and insightful commentary.Street art is a phenomenon and subculture movement that reaches from the...

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L'un des maîtres de la gravure sur bois japonaise « ukiyo-e »Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) fut l un des derniers artistes majeurs dans la tradition de l ukiyo-e. Le terme signifie littéralement « images du monde flottant », et fait référence au célèbre...

Physical description; 192 pages, viii pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Exhibition at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, from April 1986 of drawings housed in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Includes index. "List of works referred...

Learning from Mt. Hua is a close study of a travelog written and illustrated by a late-fourteenth-century Chinese physician and amateur painter, Wang LÜ. Transformed by the experience of scaling Mt. Hua, the Sacred Mountain of the West, Wang struggled to...

Jasper Johns is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, and has remained central to American art since his arrival in New York in the 1950s. With his then partner Robert Rauschenberg, Johns helped to establish a decisive new...

In this warm and vibrant work of memoir and criticism, a young writer forges a friendship with Philip Guston, one of the most influential and controversial painters of the twentieth century.The late work of Philip Guston has had a profound influence on...

Well known for his provocative realist paintings, Taner Ceylan (born 1967) began his Lost Paintings Series as a contemporary exploration of the Orientalist gaze. Upsetting both Western and Eastern master narratives, the Lost Paintings Series presents...