Category Archives: Art History

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci – Complete

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Leonardo – Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc; Science; Art … Continue reading →

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The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

This volumeÂprovides a revisionary critique of the art of Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of the national school of Indian painting, popularly known as the Bengal School of Art. The book categorically argues that the art of Abanindranath, which developed during … Continue reading →

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A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe (Blackwell Companions to Art History)

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. Brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. Contains over 30 original theoretical, historical, and … Continue reading →

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The Last Judgment: Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

Painted on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, 28 years afterMichelangelo completed the glorious and hopeful ceiling, The Last Judgment is full of stark images depicting the End of Days.James Connor uses the famous fresco as the lens through … Continue reading →

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Medieval Art: A Resource for Educators

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

This educational resource packet covers more than 1200 years of medieval art from western Europe and Byzantium, as represented by objects in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With lesson plans, forty slides, two posters, and a CD-ROM, … Continue reading →

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Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

Challuabamba (ch?-wa-bamba)–now a developing suburb of Cuenca, the principal city in the southern highlands of Ecuador–has been known for a century as an ancient site that produced exceptionally fine pottery in great quantities. Suspecting that Challuabamban ceramics might provide a … Continue reading →

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A Hero’s Many Faces: Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments (The Holocaust and Its Contexts)

Posted on February 25, 2009 by singleton

Raoul Wallenberg is widely remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews in Budapest at the end of World War II, and known as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. Today, Wallenberg’s … Continue reading →

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Scientific Investigation of Copies, Fakes and Forgeries

Posted on February 25, 2009 by singleton

The faking and forgery of works of art and antiquities is probably now more extensive than ever before. The frauds are aided by new technologies, from ink jet printers to epoxy resins, and driven by the astronomic prices realised on … Continue reading →

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Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914-1917 (Studies in War, Society, and the Militar)

Posted on February 26, 2008 by singleton

As World War I shaped and molded European culture to an unprecedented degree, it also had a profound influence on the politics and aesthetics of early-twentieth-century Russian culture. In this provocative and fascinating work, Aaron J. Cohen shows how World … Continue reading →

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The Shaping of Art History: Meditations on a Discipline

Posted on February 26, 2008 by singleton

In this provocative book, Patricia Emison invites the reader to consider and reconsider how past thinkers—from Pliny and Alberti to Freud and Fried—have conceptualized the history of Western art. What a book review attempts to be for a book, this … Continue reading →

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