Autor: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

The project of global art history calls for balanced treatment of artifacts and a unified approach. This volume emphasizes questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations. It pres …

The project of global art history calls for balanced treatment of artifacts and a unified approach. This volume emphasizes questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations. It pres …

Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first cen …

In Giuseppe Arcimboldo s most famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair. A pear stands in for a man s chin. Citrus fruits sprout from a tree trunk that doubles as a …