Vanaf de vijftiende eeuw steeg de belangstelling voor de Vlaamse kunst, vooral in Spanje. Onder de regering van Karel V en Filips II nam die interesse enorm toe en werd Spanje overspoeld door kunstenaars uit de Nederlanden.

Maar niet alleen de kunstenaars zelf werden naar Spanje gehaald, ook kunstwerken verdwenen in massa via opgezette handelskanalen richting Toledo, Madrid, Sevilla...

Wie grasduint in de Spaanse kunstgeschiedenis wordt overrompeld door Vlaamse en Nederlandse namen, kunstenaa...

At the crossroads of philosophy, artistic practice, and art history.Though Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists, inspired by the German school of expressionist art historians such as Riegl, Wölfflin, and Worringer and the great modernist art critics such as Rosenberg, Steinberg, Greenbe...

The Sociology of News reviews and synthesizes not only what is happening to journalism but also what is happening to the scholarly understanding of journalism. In the Second Edition, each chapter of the book has been updated to account for the radical changes that have reshaped the news industry over the last decade. With a new chapter on the sharp contraction of the news business in the United States since 2007, The Sociology of News examines journalism as a social institution and analyzes t...

What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists among others have changed our notions of what art history has been, is,and might be.

This antholog...

Gives you an understanding of the ways in which modern art differs from realistic works of earlier centuries. This book examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from Cy Twomblys scribbled "Olympia", Jean-Michel Basquiats crude but spontaneous "LNAPRK", and more.

A compact, introductory guide to modern art that explains styles, schools, and movements from Impressionism to the present day

An international survey exploring the many ways in which painting is re-approached, re-imagined and challenged by today’s artists.