История искусств

Knitting together two fascinating but entirely distinct lives, this ingeniously structured braided biography tells the story of the lives and work of two women, each a cultural icon in her own countr …

"Narrative of the Life and Travels of Serjeant B—" by way of Robert Butler is a literary masterpiece that beckons readers into a compelling journey via history and human revel in. This inc …

Francis L. Hawks’s "The Adventures of Daniel Boone" is an interesting biographical tale about the well-known lifestyles and adventures of Daniel Boone, a crucial American frontiersman. Hawk …

This is a detailed study of the illustrations to Amir Khusrau»s Khamsah, in which twenty discourses are followed by a brief parable, and four romances. Amir Khusrau (1253-1325) lived the greater par …

»I imagine its being rediscovered with delight in some dusty book case a century hence and hailed as a classic» Spectator »A wonderful book, a hymn to the pleasurable process of making things» Th …

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 …

Franco Albini’s works of architecture and design, produced between 1930 and 1977, have enjoyed a recent revival but to date have received only sporadic scholarly attention from historians and critics …

Dress became a testing ground for masculine ideals in Renaissance Italy. With the establishment of the ducal regime in Florence in 1530, there was increasing debate about how to be a nobleman. Was fa …

Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli Studies. Exploring the politics of the image in the context of Israeli militarized visual culture, Civic Aesthetics examines both the omni …

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 …