Art & Visual Culture

Although the idea of excess has often been used to degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also been used as a strategy for self-fashioning and empowerment, particularly by women and queer subjects. This volume examines a range of material - including ceramics, painting..

Although the idea of excess has often been used to degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also been used as a strategy for self-fashioning and empowerment, particularly by women and queer subjects. This volume examines a range of material - including ceramics, painting..

Structured around in-depth and interconnected case studies and driven by a methodology of material, contextual, and iconographic analysis, this book argues that early European single-sheet prints, north and south, are best understood as highly accessible objects shaped and framed by individual viewe..

Structured around in-depth and interconnected case studies and driven by a methodology of material, contextual, and iconographic analysis, this book argues that early European single-sheet prints, north and south, are best understood as highly accessible objects shaped and framed by individual viewe..

This collection of essays by a group of European and North American scholars extends the traditional boundaries associated with the study of baptismal fonts. Previous scholarship about baptismal fonts has often focused on the purely stylistic, iconographical and liturgical perspectives, using primar..

This collection of essays by a group of European and North American scholars extends the traditional boundaries associated with the study of baptismal fonts. Previous scholarship about baptismal fonts has often focused on the purely stylistic, iconographical and liturgical perspectives, using primar..

The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution will be broadly relevant to scholars of art, media and visual studies, and particularly to historians of the French Revolution and eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe. The book's concern with the representation of violence makes ..

In response to rapid changes in the field of visual culture, this updated third edition brings together key writings on photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture...

Examining the literary career of the eighteenth-century Irish painter James Barry through an interdisciplinary methodology, this is the first full-length study of the artist’s writings. Lenihan assesses the artist’s own aesthetic philosophy about painting and printmaking, and reveals the extent to w..

Examining the literary career of the eighteenth-century Irish painter James Barry through an interdisciplinary methodology, this is the first full-length study of the artist’s writings. Lenihan assesses the artist’s own aesthetic philosophy about painting and printmaking, and reveals the extent to w..

Examining the literary career of the eighteenth-century Irish painter James Barry through an interdisciplinary methodology, this is the first full-length study of the artist’s writings. Lenihan assesses the artist’s own aesthetic philosophy about painting and printmaking, and reveals the extent to w..

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