GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A CONCISE WESTERN HISTORY, provides you with a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated tour of the world's great artistic traditions, and, with MindTap, all of the online study tools you need to excel in your art history course! Easy to read and understand, the fourth edition includes new artists and provides a rich cultural backdrop for each of the covered periods and geographical locations.

Fist academic study on modernity at the Shanghai Art College

The Shanghai Art College was one of the most important art schools in Republican China. This is the first academic study written on the early history of the College. It makes a major contribution to the history of art education in China, Shanghai in particular. The book presents a new approach to how people understand the modernization of Chinese art, and the significance and consequences of modernity in the Shanghai art world of th...

200 years have passed since the founding of the Leiden Print Room, incorporated today into Leiden University Libraries. In celebration of that long, rich history this wide-ranging new publication presents a complete and varied survey of the Leiden collections, starting with rare drawings from the early sixteenth century and ending with recent acquisitions from just this past decade. From Jan Gossart and Barend van Orley to Carel Visser and Emo Verkerk, this work encompasses the history of two...

Dit beknopte boek introduceert de notie van 'ervaring' als belangrijkste concept binnen de methodologie van artistiek onderzoek. Janneke Wesseling traceert een genealogie van 'ervaring' van William James, John Dewey en Alfred North Whitehead tot Brian Massumi en plaats dit in een theoretisch kader. Haar betoog is gebaseerd op de praktijk van artistiek onderzoek en de verwevenheid van denken en maken. Deze publicatie is een iets uitgebreidere versie van Wesselings inaugurele rede aan de Univer...