Art & Visual Culture

Covering the major artists and their works, and outlining the social and cultural backgrounds of each period, this is a survey of American painting and sculpture from colonial times to the present...

A Shared Legacy: Essays on Irish and Scottish Art and Visual Culture brings together for the first time a unique selection of new research by leading Irish, Scottish, English and North American scholars to explore the varying ways in which the visual can operate within the context of two countries w..

A Shared Legacy: Essays on Irish and Scottish Art and Visual Culture brings together for the first time a unique selection of new research by leading Irish, Scottish, English and North American scholars to explore the varying ways in which the visual can operate within the context of two countries w..

Taking the reader behind the scenes of this elite bastion of French art theory, education, and practice, this engaging study uncovers the fascinating histories - official and unofficial - of that artistic community...

From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793 after the French Revolution, the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was the centre of the Parisian art world. Taking the reader behind the scenes of this elite bastion of French art theory, education, and practice, and drawing on b..

From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793 after the French Revolution, the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was the centre of the Parisian art world. Taking the reader behind the scenes of this elite bastion of French art theory, education, and practice, and drawing on b..

Ed Hooks' indispensable acting guidebook for animators has been fully updated and improved! _x005F_x000D_ Hooks uses basic acting theory to explain everything from character movement and facial expressions to interaction and scene construction. Just as acting on film and on stage are very different ..

First published in 2000, this volume finds the origins and trace the development of this new world or perception in the modern city: London and Paris, the forerunners, and the cities and larger towns of France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, where advertising created new urban perceptions, le..

The first critical study to be published on Mughal pictorial hybridity, this book investigates the workings of the diverse creative forces that underpinned the formation of the Mughal painting. Valerie Gonzalez here explores - with the updated methodology of art criticism - the processes of cross-..

Aesthetic Value..

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

A social history of reception, this study focuses on art and Catholicism in early modern Rome. The five public altarpieces examined here-by Caravaggio, Guercino, Guido Reni, Tommaso Laureti, and Andrea Commodi-are seen anew through the eyes of female and male viewers from all walks of life. In trea..