Offers an overview on the development of British painting in the eighteenth century, which anticipated themes, and techniques that later became paradigms of modernity. This book focuses on the English context at a time when the growth of artistic standing was accompanied by the country's conquest of hegemony on a political and economic plane.

Lex Horn (1916-1968) was een van de belangrijkste kunstenaars uit de periode van de wederopbouw van Nederland na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. De overheid pompte miljarden in de herinrichting en beschouwde kunst in de openbare ruimte als middel om te grote eenvormigheid in de nieuwbouw tegen te gaan en het geestelijk welzijn van de bevolking te bevorderen. Dat beïnvloedde de relatie tussen architectuur en kunst en leidde tot nieuwe vormen van monumentale kunsttoepassing.

Lex Horn was van Joodse k...

We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refugee crisis that continues to play out in the seascape between Europe and Africa (and not only there) yields an ever-growing archive of humanitarian tragedy. As both a visual backdrop and a lethal medium of unequal mobility, maritime space and landscape play a significant role in mediating the ethical demands of this crisis. Yet there has been little exploration of the longer history of morality’s role in ...

Featured in Christie’s list of ‘What to read in 2022: the best new art books to look out for'.

Discusses and describes the material nature of paintings, how they age and the main types of conservation treatment carried out on panel and canvas paintings, along with some of the problems involved in cleaning and restoration.

As inviting and sensual as a warm summer

day, this opulent exhibition catalog offers

a deep appreciation of Klimt's ornate,

exquisitely detailed, and atmospheric

landscape paintings.

For the last twenty years of his career, Gustav Klimt devoted considerable energy to painting landscapes during his summer vacations-and these bucolic scenes became some of his most sought-after pictures. Filled with vibrant high-quality reproductions and featuring engaging essa...

Wat kunstgeschiedenis ons vertelt over sociale media

Wat heeft de Heilige Drievuldigheid te maken met sociale media? Waarom zijn we zo dol op kleurenfilters? Wat maakt hashtags zo krachtig? En waarom beleven we digitale beelden anders dan analoge?

In Instagrammable – Kunst, beeld en sociale media duikt Koenraad Jonckheere diep in de verrassende verbanden tussen 2.500 jaar Europese kunstgeschiedenis en onze moderne beeldcultuur op sociale media. Hij onthult hoe eeuwenoude ideeën over observ...

A BOOK OF DISCOVERY

"The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole"

A LITTLE OLD WORLD

No story is complete unless it begins at the very beginning. But where is the beginning? Where is the dawn of geographyâ€"the knowledge of our earth? What was it like before the first explorers made their way into distant lands? Every day that passes we are gaining fresh knowledge of the dim and silent past.

Every day men are patiently digging in the...