Konsthistoria

The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art surveys a broad spectrum of Christian art produced from the late second to the sixth centuries. The first part of the book opens with a general survey of …

How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as fetishes, symbols and representations, active …

Providing a gateway to a new history of modern aesthetics, this book challenges conventional views of how art”s significance developed in society. The 18th century is often said to have involved …

We know the Renaissance as a key period in the history of Europe. It saw the development of court and urban cultures, witnessed the first global voyages of discovery and gave rise to the Reformation …

Since the publication of Edward Said”s groundbreaking work Orientalism 35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West”s fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing …

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 …

Louisa Waterford (1818-91), modest, retiring, of good family, renowned for her beauty, and with extraordinary grace, was the embodiment of a Victorian ideal of womanhood. But like the age itself, her …

A John Heskett Reader brings together a selection of the celebrated design historian John Heskett”s key works, introduced and edited by Clive Dilnot of Parsons, the New School, USA. Heskett, who …

Maris Boyd Gillette”s groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China”s porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dynasty China to the present day. Gillette explores how …

This engaging study reveals how a half-hidden thread of Masonic symbolism runs through Hogarth”s work. The classical and Biblical references, whose ambiguity and apparent paradoxical relation with …