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  • Inside Bruegel

    The Play of Images in Children's Games

    by Edward Snow ...
    In this brilliant, original and lavishly illustrated book, Edward Snow undertakes an inquiry into a single painting by the Flemish master Peter Bruegel the Elder—the kaleidoscopic Children's Games—in order to unlock the secrets of the great painter's art. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Picturing Imperial Power

    Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting

    This study of colonialism and art examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting. Focusing on paintings from British America, the West Indies, and India, Beth Fowkes Tobin investigates the role of art in creating and maintaining imperial ideologies and practices—as well as in resisting and complicating them.Informed by the varied ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Faustian Bargain

    The Art World in Nazi Germany

    Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the topic of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women decide to put their talents in the service of a brutal and inhuman regime? This question is the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Museums in the German Art World

    From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism

    Combining the history of ideas, institutions, and architecture, this study shows how the museum both reflected and shaped the place of art in German culture from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. On a broader level, it illuminates the origin and character of the museum's central role in modern culture. James Sheehan begins by describing the establishment of the first ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel

    Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

    Series series Picturing History
    Christ's Crucifixion is one of the most recognized images in Western culture, and it has come to stand as a universal symbol of both suffering and salvation. But often overlooked is the fact that ultimately the Crucifixion is a scene of capital punishment. Mitchell Merback reconstructs the religious, legal, and historical context of the Crucifixion and of other images of public torture. The result ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Legitimizing the Artist

    Manifesto Writing and European Modernism 1885-1915

    by Luca Somigli ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the production of literary and cultural manifestoes enjoyed a veritable boom and accompanied the rise of many avant-garde movements. Legitimizing the Artist considers this phenomenon as a response to a more general crisis of legitimation that artists had been struggling with for decades. The crucial question for artists, confronted by the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Immortal Comedy

    The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life

    Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, Immortal Comedy is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Lost Painting

    The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece

    by Jonathan Harr ...
    Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story.An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Time’s Visible Surface

    Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

    Expands our understanding of Alois Riegl beyond his role as an art historian to a pivotal figure in cultural theory at large, while placing his interest in history and time within the intellectual world of fin-de-siècle Vienna. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sport in the USSR

    Physical Culture--Visual Culture

    by Mike O'Mahony ...
    Series series Picturing History
    Sports played a vital role in the social and cultural life of the former Soviet Union.The Soviet state sponsored countless programs to promote sporting activities, even constructing a new term, fizkultura, to describe sports culture.With Sport in the USSR, Mike O’Mahony asserts that the popular image of fizkultura was as dependent on its presentation as it was on its actual practice. Images of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought?

    The Traditional View of Art, Revised Edition with Previously Author's Unpublished Notes

    This new edition of Coomaraswamy's classic book, considered his most important work on the philosophy of art, includes all of the revisions Coomaraswamy had wanted to add to the original edition. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Michelangelo's Mountain

    The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara

    Discover the fascinating, crucial, and often dangerous relationship between Michelangelo and the stone quarries of Carrara in this clear-eyed and well-researched exploration that “recounts the artist's large life and lasting works with care and reverence” (Booklist).No artist looms so large in Western consciousness and culture as Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most celebrated sculptor of all time. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • J.M.W. Turner

    Ackroyd's Brief Lives

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    In this second volume in the Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner.Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. His father was a barber, and his mother came from a family of London butchers. “His speech was recognizably that of a Cockney, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Salvador Dalí

    by Mary Ann Caws ...
    Series series Critical Lives
    “Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure—that of being Salvador Dalí.”He was a force unto himself, an icon of outrageousness, artistic brilliance, eccentricity, and unmistakable style. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, Marquis of Pubol, was one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century, and in this concise narrative acclaimed art historian Mary Ann ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Universe of Stone

    Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic

    by Philip Ball ...
    “[A] lively biography of Chartres Cathedral . . . Ball’s account of its construction reveals fascinating details.” —The New YorkerChartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—and why was it built at such immense height and with such ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vanished Smile

    by R.A. Scotti ...
    On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using the latest methods of criminology, including fingerprinting, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • In the Footsteps of Popes

    A Spirited Guide to the Treasures of the Vatican

    A unique look at the treasures of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, and the Basilica of Saint Peter from an official guide of the Eternal City.In a tiny enclave in the heart of Rome lies the world's smallest independent state—the Vatican. Over the course of fifteen hundred years, successive popes have commissioned and assembled an extraordinary collection of artistic works within Vatican ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Footsteps of Popes

    A unique look at the treasures of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, and the Basilica of Saint Peter from an official guide of the Eternal City.In a tiny enclave in the heart of Rome lies the world's smallest independent state—the Vatican. Over the course of fifteen hundred years, successive popes have commissioned and assembled an extraordinary collection of artistic works within Vatican ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Cleopatra and Rome

    With the full panorama of her life forever lost, Cleopatra touches us in a series of sensational images: floating through a perfumed mist down the Nile; dressed as Venus for a tryst at Tarsus; unfurled from a roll of linens before Caesar; couchant, the deadly asp clasped to her breast. Through such images, each immortalizing the Egyptian queen's encounters with legendary Romans--Julius Caesar, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí

    Forbidden Pleasures and Connected Lives

    Lorca, Bunuel and Dali were, in their respective fields of poetry and theatre, cinema, and painting, three of the most imaginative creative artists of the twentieth century; their impact was felt far beyond the boundaries of their native Spain. But if individually they have been examined by many, their connected lives have rarely been considered. It is these, the ties that bind them, that ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Art and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Europe

    by Nigel Aston ...
    Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed monumental upheavals in both the Catholic and Protestant faiths and the repercussions rippled down to the churches’ religious art forms. Nigel Aston now chronicles here the intertwining of cultural and institutional turmoil during this pivotal century.The sustained popularity of religious art in the face of competition from increasingly prevalent secular ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • A General History of Quadrupeds

    The Figures Engraved on Wood

    by Thomas Bewick ...
    In the late eighteenth century, the British took greater interest than ever before in observing and recording all aspects of the natural world. Travelers and colonists returning from far-flung lands provided dazzling accounts of such exotic creatures as elephants, baboons, and kangaroos. The engraver Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) harnessed this newfound interest by assembling the most comprehensive ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance

    The Feud That Sparked The Renaissance

    Joining the bestsellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the RenaissanceThe dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore, the great cathedral of Florence, is among the most enduring symbols of the Renaissance, an equal to the works of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Its ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • The Portland Vase

    The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Mysterious Roman Treasure

    by Robin Brooks ...
    For thousands of years an enigmatic and astonishingly beautiful piece of Roman art has captivated those who have come in contact with it.Made before the birth of Christ, the Portland Vase, as it is called, is renowned for both its beauty and its mystery.In The Portland Vase, Robin Brooks takes us on a vivid journey across Europe and through the centuries, as this delicate piece of glass, less than ... Read more

    $6.99 USD