Art & Visual Culture

Dwelling on the interconnections between parody and festivity as forms of inversion, the essays in this volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter as depicted in early modern art. Chapters deal most often with Northern Renaissance and Baroque art; themes include grobianism and..

Dwelling on the interconnections between parody and festivity as forms of inversion, the essays in this volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter as depicted in early modern art. Chapters deal most often with Northern Renaissance and Baroque art; themes include grobianism and..

Redefining long-established paradigms of early modern architectural history, Passion and Control reveals the central importance of architecture to eighteenth-century society. The author presents a tapestry of sources to reconstruct the cultural context and meaning of these buildings as they were per..

The first book to be dedicated to the topic, Patronage and Italian Renaissance Sculpture reappraises the traditional roles of sculptor and patron. The volume sets each work of art into a socio-historical context-the relationship between artists, patrons, and viewers are reframed to shed new light on..

The first book to be dedicated to the topic, Patronage and Italian Renaissance Sculpture reappraises the traditional roles of sculptor and patron. The volume sets each work of art into a socio-historical context-the relationship between artists, patrons, and viewers are reframed to shed new light on..

In Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome, scholars from different fields of research explore performative aspects of Baroque culture. With examples from the politics of diplomacy and everyday life, from theatre, music and ritual as well as from architecture, painting and sculpture, the cont..

This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. Here authors combine a methodological focus on memory as performance with a theoretical focus on art and popular culture as practices of remembrance. The es..

Contains documents and readings that provide a social and cultural context for the works of art illustrated in Janson's "History of Art" and De la Croix and Tansey's "Gardner's Art Through the Ages". The selections provide insight into religion, philosophy, literature, science and social history...

This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson's History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey's Gardner's Art Through the Ages in terms of..

Photography explores the photograph in the 21st century and its importance as a media form...

Photography explores the photograph in the 21st century and its importance as a media form...

This deeply personal account of emotion and vulnerability draws upon anecdotes related to individual works of art to present a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art in the past...