Art, Ethnography and the Life of Objects

Julia Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Perspectives in Art History
• This book is a scholarly and lively account of the interactions between art and ethnography in Paris in the pre-WW2 period, drawing upon a diverse ran... Lees meer

The Invisible Flâneuse?

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Perspectives in Art History
• This collection of essays applies the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of 19th century France... Lees meer

The Wanderers and Critical Realism in Nineteenth Century Russian Painting

David Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Perspectives in Art History
• Russian nineteenth-century society, as seen through the art of the Wanderers, the nation's largest and most successful dissident school of realist pai... Lees meer

Fragonard'S Playful Paintings

Jennifer Milam

• Hardcover | Critical Perspectives in Art History
• The art of Jean-Honore Fragonard embodies the pervasive culture of play in eighteenth-century France. This book not only examines Fragonard's art thro... Lees meer

Politics and Painting at the Venice Biennale, 1948-64

Nancy Jachec

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Perspectives in Art History
• Challenging the dominant view that American Abstract Expressionism triumphed in Western Europe in the immediate post-war period, this book considers t... Lees meer

The Architecture of the Museum

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Perspectives in Art History
• Every city has at least one, and great cities often have more. From the Louvre to the Bilbao Guggenheim, the museum has had a long-standing relationsh... Lees meer

De Stijl and Dutch Modernism

Michael White

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Perspectives in Art History
• De Stijl was the title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917 and is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of it... Lees meer

Model and Supermodel

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Perspectives in Art History
• Over the last twenty years there have been flurries of interest in the artist's model, and recent exhibitions have stimulated new activity in this are... Lees meer