Monica Hellstrom & Amy Russell 
Social Dynamics of Roman Imperial Imagery [PDF ebook] 

The Middle Ages were a time of great innovation, artistic vigor, and cultural richness. Appearances mattered a great deal during this vibrant era and hair was a key marker of the dynamism and sophist …

In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presupposi …

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 partici …

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 …

Every built structure has an interior: whether it takes the rough form of a rudimentary shelter, the grey walls of a hospital or the finessed decoration of a one-off residence. We spend most of our t …

In this radical and wide-ranging reassessment of Renaissance art, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine examine the ways in which European culture came to define itself culturally and aesthetically in the y …

Photography of art has served as a basis for the reconstruction of works of art and as a vehicle for the dissemination and reinterpretation of art. This book provides the first definitive treatment o …

Peter Paul Rubens and the Crisis of the Beati Moderni takes up the question of the issues involved in the formation of recent saints – or Beati moderni (modern Blesseds) as they were called – by the …

Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the ”founder” of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre design, world fairs and cars to houses and produc …

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 …