Art & Visual Culture

Michelangelo in Print is a readable narrative that pays special attention to the ways reproductive prints served the artist, printmakers, publishers, and audiences. Focusing on printed reproductions made during the sixteenth century, this study identifies prints as indicators of how Michelangelo's w..

Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico, Mónica Domínguez Torres here investigates the significance of military images and symbols in post-Conquest Mexico. She shows how the 'conquest' in fact involved dynamic exchanges between cult..

Modern Art and Modernism offers firsthand material for the study of issues central to the development of modern art, its theory, and criticism. The history of modern art is not simply a history of works of art, it is also a history of ideas interpretations. The works of critics and theorists have no..

traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and the theories that influenced and attempted to explain them...

National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 examines the degree to which national museums have created models and representations of nations, their past, present and future, and proceeds to assess the consequences of such attempts...

National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 examines the degree to which national museums have created models and representations of nations, their past, present and future, and proceeds to assess the consequences of such attempts...

Since early Christianity, wood, earth, water and stone were taken from loca sancta to signify them elsewhere. Unlike textual or visual representations, natural materials not only represent the Holy Land; they are part of it. This book examines the processes of their sanctification and how, although ..

Essays in this collection analyse the convergence between "sacred" and "secular" in medieval works of art and architecture, questioning the adequacy of those categories to describe medieval attitudes. "Sacred" and "secular" are shown to reflect largely modern cultural frameworks, which can be useful..

Fully illustrated throughout, and including many pictures of artworks never before seen in print, Network Art represents one of the first substantial attempts to place major artist's writings on network art alongside those of critics, curators and historians...

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Arguing that Santi Cosma e Damiano was a reform convent, the author of this interdisciplinary study explores how its nuns employed art and architecture as a means to actively express their specific religious concerns. While focusing on the reconstruction of the history and construction of the conven..