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Radiance from the Waters
Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art
The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the ideals of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in Mende culture. In this...
Rethinking Art History
Meditations on a Coy Science
A general overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history. Refuting the image of art history as a discipline in crisis, Preziosi asserts that many of the dilemmas and...
American Genre Painting
The Politics of Everyday Life
American genre painting flourished in the thirty years before the Civil War, a period of rapid social change that followed the election of President Andrew Jackson. It has long been assumed that these paintings—of...
Expressionism
Art and Idea
A strikingly illustrated survey of the various phases of Expressionism, from its beginnings in 1905 to its most recent formulation in the art of the 1970s. Examining Expressionist art for the first time in the context of the history...
Impressionism
Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
“Long-awaited, this full-scale revision of Impressionism immediately supersedes all other studies in the field. Herbert rejuvenates even the most famous paintings by seeing them in a dense and flexible context touching on...
The Frederick Douglass Papers
Volume 4, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, 1864-80
The conclusion of the civil War and the subsequent era of reconstruction had a significant impact on the life of Frederick Douglass. Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment brought to an end his public battle against...
The Art and Architecture of Ancient America
The Mexican, Maya and Andean Peoples
Third Edition
This important book examines the development of the principal styles of ancient American architecture, sculpture, and painting until the end of the Aztec and Inca empires in the sixteenth century. Written by esteemed scholar George...
Germany from Partition to Reunification
A Revised Edition of The Two Germanies Since 1945
In this book, a prominent historian revises his comprehensive overview of Germany since 1945 to take into account the momentous events that swept away one of the German states and united the country under the...
The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice
The painting and carving of altarpieces was one of the most important and characteristic tasks of Italian Renaissance artists, yet the altarpiece as an artistic genre has been surprisingly neglected by art historians. This...
Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy
The great Villa constructed by the Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli between A.D. 118 and the 130s is one of the most original monuments in the history of architecture and art. The inspiration for major developments in villa and...