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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 …

Neil La Bute: A Casebook is the first book to examine one of the most successful and controversial contemporary American playwrights and filmmakers. While he is most famous, and in some cases infamou …

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 volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe since the …

The Peacock Revolution in menswear of the 1960s came as a profound shock to much of America. Men”s long hair and vividly colored, sexualized clothes challenged long established traditions of …

"The Old Merchant Marine, " by Ralph D. Paine, is a fascinating and in-depth look at the crucial role that American merchant ships and seafarers played in establishing the country’s early …

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 …

In history, this grand arterial 1500-mile waterway was always seen as the natural frontier between the northern provinces of the Iranian empires and the outer Turanian lands. It was for centuries …

Reading Graphic Design History uses a series of key artifacts from the history of print culture in light of their specific historical contexts. It encourages the reader to look carefully and …

This book examines the development of national emblems, photographic portraiture, oil painting, world expositions, modern spaces for art exhibitions, university programs of visual arts, and other age …