Jeannette Shambaugh Elliot & David Shambaugh 
Odyssey of China’s Imperial Art Treasures [PDF ebook] 

Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women »s material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-cent …

The story of "The Adventures of Captain John Patterson" takes the reader on an exciting journey into unknown territories. It tells the story of Captain John Patterson’s exciting adventures …

A compelling biographical study of a leading twentieth-century British artist,  »Graham Sutherland: Life, Work and Ideas » offers new insight into how he and his paintings developed. In the culminati …

Hilton Kramer, well known as perhaps the most perceptive, courageous, and influential art critic in America, is also the founder and co-editor (with Roger Kimball) of The New Criterion. This comprehe …

Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books were produced by hand and their illustration using br …

The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of …

What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration – part dialogue, part voyage – with the video installations of Finnish ar …

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular  »moment » in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing o …

Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production processes and offering an engaging, theoretical perspecti …

James Manns presents a readable and entertaining examination of the most serious questions posed by the arts and our relation to them. In a clear and engaging fashion, he explores the central issues …