Behind each archaeological shipwreck recovery lies a team of highly skilled specialists: divers, archaeologists, engineers, scientists, conservators, curators, historians, designers etc. While each boat found presents a unique combination of ...

This exciting book explores one of the most diverse and innovative periods in British fashion and showcases the work of some of the decade's leading designers - including Betty Jackson, ...

Furthermore, through their daring inventions, Russian artists of the first thirty years of the 20th century transformed, profoundly and permanently, our perception of stage design - and hence of the ...

The collection of drawings in the Ashmolean is one of the greatest treasures of the University of Oxford. It began spectacularly in 1843 when a group of drawings by Raphael ...

Antonio Stradivari is, perhaps, the only maker of violins who ranks alongside Van Gogh and Turner as an artist. A household name to many, he is associated with secret formulae ...

Un'esaustiva e aggiornata monografia dedicata a uno dei massimi scultori viventi: Sir Anthony Caro. Il versatile artista britannico, che ha lasciato segni indelebili nella storia dell'arte, rivoluziona in modo radicale ...

Un numero eccezionale di capolavori del pittore norvegese, insieme ad alcuni lavori meno conosciuti, ma di grande importanza nella produzione complessiva del maestro, offrono un'opportunità unica per comprendere nuovi aspetti ...

Il cubismo ha scomposto forme esistite per secoli e ne?ha utilizzato i frammenti per creare nuovi oggetti, nuovi modelli e, indefinitiva, mondi nuovi". Nel 1907 Picasso dipinge Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. ...

In 2013 Tate Britain will present a major exhibition of landscapes by the much loved British painter L.S. Lowry (1887-1976). This is the first such show held by a public ...

Sins of the Fathers considers sins as nodes of cultural anxiety and explores the tensions between competing organizational categories for moral thought and behaviours, namely the Seven Deadly Sins and ...

In this book an attempt is made to probe more carefully the processes by which social and ethnic problems, as these pertain to Caribbean countries, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, ...

Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967) is recognized as one of the most well-known American artists of the 20th century. His distinctive style, combining subtle observations of the world with his ...

In the years between the two world wars, the enormous vogue of "things Mexican" reached its peak. Along with the popular appeal of its folkloric and pictorialist traditions, Mexican culture ...

This major study offers a new understanding of the aethetics and politics of postwar European and American art. Questioning the widespread assumption that the most innovative practices were non-representational, it ...

A shift of global proportions occurred in May 1808. Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain and deposed the Spanish king. Overnight, the Hispanic world was transformed forever. Hispanics were forced to confront ...

The Art of Thomas Bewick is the first book to interpret the art of the wood engraver Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) and set it in the context of history, revealing the ...

In this wide-ranging discussion of Marti's life, work and influence, authors explore their subject's understanding of non-violence; his nationalism that was also a profound openness to difference and dialogue; his ...

Les Rencontres Caraïbe-Amazonie de lInventaire général du patrimoine culturel, ouvertes par Mme Fabienne Mathurin-Brouard, 4e vice-présidente du Conseil régional, déléguée à la culture, se sont déroulées du 23 au 27 ...

Agnolo Bronzino's work was celebrated by two major exhibitions (New York and Florence) and by a substantial number of talks, conferences and publications focused on the artist's drawings, paintings, poetry ...

Originally published in 1894, this book presents a detailed study of ships from the Mediterranean area during the period 1000 BC to 1000 AD. Evidence is drawn from written sources, ...