- 100 Details
- Kenneth Clark
- 100 Details offers Clark's personal responses to details of paintings in the National Gallery in London. The result resembles a walk through a glorious art collection with a critic of astounding eye and intellect at our side.
- Paperback 1990
- The Art of Small Things
- John Mack
- This richly illustrated book celebrates the art of the miniature, but also looks beyond it at the many aspects of "small worlds"--in particular, their capacity to evoke responses that far exceed their physical dimensions. Mack explores the talismanic, religious, or magical properties with which miniatures are often imbued. Considering a wide range of objects, he examines the use of the miniature form in various cultural contexts.
- Hardcover 2008
- Bathers, Bodies, Beauty
- Linda Nochlin
- Linda Nochlin explores the contradictions and dissonances that mark experience as well as art. Her book confronts the issues posed in representations of the body in the art of impressionists, modern masters, and contemporary realists and post-modernists. In many ways a personal book, Bathers, Bodies, Beauty brings to bear a lifetime of looking at, teaching, talking about, wrestling with, loving, and hating art to reveal and complicate the visceral experience of art.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Berenson Archive
- Compiled by Nicky Mariano
- Hardcover 1965
- Chinese Art in Detail
- Carol Michaelson
- Jane Portal
- Drawing on the British Museum's extensive collection, Chinese Art in Detail explores the traditional hierarchy of materials and techniques reaching back as far as the Han Dynasty in the third century B.C. in the history and character of the works under scrutiny, this sumptuously illustrated book conveys an understanding of Chinese art in all its great variety, its simplicities, its complexities, its splendors, and its mysteries of craft and inspiration reaching back to Neolithic times.
- Hardcover 2006
- David to Delacroix
- Walter Friedlaender
- This renowned study follows the evolution of French painting from the Revolution through the Napoleonic era. Beginning with David's revolutionary classicism, Friedlaender scrutinizes the work of early–nineteenth–century artists against the background of their times.
- Paperback
- Decorated Book Papers
- Rosamond B. Loring
- Edited by Hope Mayo
- Decorated Book Papers, first published in 1942, remains one of the standard works on its subject. Loring, a collector and maker of decorated papers, explores the extensive history and use of decorated papers in the book arts. Appendices are devoted to the art of marbling, the preparation of paste papers, and a listing of some early makers of decorated paper.
- Hardcover 2008
- Florence
- Michael Levey
- Nestled in the Apennines, cradle of the Renaissance, home of Dante, Michelangelo, and the Medici, Florence is unlike any other city in its extraordinary mingling of great art and literature, natural splendor, and remarkable history. Intimate and grand, learned and engaging, Michael Levey's Florence renders the city in all of its madness and magnificence.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Icons
- Robin Cormack
- Byzantine and Russian Orthodox icons are perhaps the most enduring form of religious art ever developed--and one of the most mysterious. This book provides an accessible guide to their story and power. Illustrated mostly with Cretan, Greek, and Russian examples from the British Museum, which houses Britain's most important collection, the book examines icons in the context of the history of Christianity, as well as within the perspective of art history.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I, From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire
- Ladislas Bugner, General Editor
- Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow
- Jean Vercoutter
- Jean Leclant
- Frank M. Snowden
- Jehan Desanges
- Ladislas Bugner
- Hardcover
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II, Part 1, From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood
- Ladislas Bugner, General Editor
- Jean Devisse
- Jean Marie Courtes
- Hardcover
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II, Part 2, Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World (Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century)
- Ladislas Bugner, General Editor
- Jean Devisse
- Michel Mollat
- Hardcover
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV, Part 1,
- Ladislas Bugner
- Hardcover
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV, Part 2,
- Ladislas Bugner
- Hardcover
- Indian Art in Detail
- A. L. Dallapiccola
- The rich and diverse cultures of India are represented in exquisite detail in this book, which begins with a simple question: what is Indian art? Each thematically organized chapter delves into such topics as religion and myth, epics, festivals, courtly and village life, and the natural world. The gorgeous close-ups of paintings, textiles, and sculptures in metal, ivory, and wood illuminate the aesthetics and workmanship, as well as recurrent motifs that are distinctly Indian.
- Hardcover 2007
- Mosaics as History
- G. W. Bowersock
- Over the past century, exploration and serendipity have uncovered mosaic after mosaic in the Near East--maps, historical images and religious scenes that constitute a treasure of new testimony from antiquity. In their complex language, G. W. Bowersock finds historical evidence, illustrations of literary and mythological tradition, religious icons, and monuments to civic pride. Attending to one of the most evocative languages of the ages, his work reveals a fusion of cultures and religions that speaks to us across time.
- Hardcover 2006
- Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 47, Spring 2005
- Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
- Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
- Paperback 2005
- Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 48, Autumn 2005
- Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
- Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
- Paperback 2005
- Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 49/50, Spring/Autumn 2006
- Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
- Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
- Paperback 2006
- Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 51, Spring 2007
- Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
- Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
- Paperback
- Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 52, Fall 2007
- Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
- Contributions by Ivan Gaskell
- Contributions by Jeffrey Quilter
- Contributions by Ruth Phillips
- Contributions by Thomas Lentz
- Contributions by William L. Fash
- Contributions by Michael Herzfeld
- Contributions by Suzanne Blier
- Contributions by Anne D'Alleva
- Contributions by Henry Kim
- Contributions by Viola Konig
- Contributions by Richard Kurin
- Contributions by Natalia Majluf
- Contributions by Mary Malloy
- Contributions by Moyo Okediji
- Contributions by Jolene Rickard
- Contributions by Ngahuia Te Awekotuko
- Contributions by James Clifton
- Contributions by Marcia Brennan
- Contributions by Yui Suzuki
- Contributions by Kristina Van Dyke
- Contributions by Peter Probst
- Contributions by Julie McGee
- Contributions by Roberta Bonetti
- Contributions by Dario Gamboni
- Contributions by Pascal Griener
- Contributions by Anne Higonnet
- Contributions by Alan Chong
- Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
- Paperback 2008
- Thresholds of the Sacred
- Edited by Sharon E. J. Gerstel
- Contributions by Elizabeth Bolman
- Contributions by Joan Branham
- Contributions by Nicholas Constas
- Contributions by Marcia Hall
- Contributions by Jacqueline June
- Contributions by Sophia Kalopissi-Verti
- Contributions by Urs Peschlow
- Contributions by Robert Taft
- From the walls and curtains of first-century Judaism to the tramezzo of Renaissance Italy, screens of various shapes and sizes have been used to separate the sacred from the secular. Drawn from papers presented at a recent Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies symposium, this volume provides insightful new research on the history of the iconostasis.
- Hardcover 2007