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The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity - or so we have been taught to believe. This title offers the general reader first a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, and then a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life.

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Traces two intersecting trajectories in American art. It shows how rights-based 1960s politics and the identity politics of the 1970s influenced the development of Conceptual art (with a capital 'C') into the diverse set of practices generally characterised as conceptualist (with a lower-case 'c'). -- .

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Traces two intersecting trajectories in American art. It shows how rights-based 1960s politics and the identity politics of the 1970s influenced the development of Conceptual art (with a capital 'C') into the diverse set of practices generally characterised as conceptualist (with a lower-case 'c'). -- .

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Today is the deed.We will account for it tomorrow.The past we are leaving behind as carrion.The future we leave to the fortune-tellers.We take the present day.

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Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term "Action Painters" to refer to the American Abstract Expressionists

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The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the leading role Germanophone women artists have played in deploying surrealism to respond to the traumatic events and legacies of the Second World War.

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Russian nineteenth-century society, as seen through the art of the Wanderers, the nation's largest and most successful dissident school of realist painters, provides a fascinating social panorama of the late tsarist period: the land, the people, its times and history. -- .

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Organizes and describes the primary and secondary literature surrounding Mary Stevenson Cassat, Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzales and Marie Bracquemond, four major women Impressionist artists. It contains nearly 900 citations of manuscripts, books, articles, reproductions, films exhibitions and reviews.

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"The life of Paul Gauguin (1848--1903), who abandoned his wife, five children, and a successful career as a stockbroker to paint in poverty in exotic Tahiti, is one of the legendary tales of the art wor"

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Explores Franco-Maghrebi crossings in contemporary art, giving particular attention to performance, video, photography and installation. It is the first book to focus on postcolonial approaches to art in France and the wider French-speaking world. -- .

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The importance of the late 18th century in the genesis of modern art emerges in these four essays on various aspects of the art and architecture of a neglected period.

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Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. It explores path-breaking transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s in the framework of decolonial movements and transcultural thinking.

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Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. It explores path-breaking transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s in the framework of decolonial movements and transcultural thinking.

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Understand Contemporary Art is a comprehensive guide to the art scene - how it has developed, the key personalities, influences and works.

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This volume commemorates the 100th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh's death. Major van Gogh scholars present essays that reexamine the painter's place in the art world of his time, the phenomenal growth in his reputation, and his influence on later art movements and individual artists.

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This book traces world journeys of early modern visual images from Europe to distant parts of the world - India, Japan, China, Brazil, Chile - and their return, altered but still recognizable, and ready to be reused with an awareness of their recent travels. -- .

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This work provides a ready reference to significant productions of plays on the London stage during the period 1837 through 1901 and includes extensive information concerning both plays and players.

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This volume assesses the impact of current critical theory on the discipline and practice of art history. It addresses how issues of politics, semiotics, psychoanalysis and historiography have contributed to the emergent terms and practices of the new art histories.