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European Art of the Seventeenth Century
2024 || Paperback || . Giorgi || Getty Trust Publications
The seventeenth century was the beginning of a new era of commercialism, in which artists increasingly catered to affluent collectors. This title highlights the most important artists, works, concepts, and theories of the period, accompanied by 400 full-colour illustrations.
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Utopias
2024 || Paperback || Richard Noble || Whitechapel Gallery
This anthology contextualizes art's current engagement with the utopian in relation to political thought, viewing the utopian as a key term in the artistic lineage of modernity.
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The Upside-Down World (Heruitgave)
meetings with the Dutch Masters
2024 || Paperback || Benjamin Moser || Penguin
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch museums. Soon, he found himself unearthing the strange, inspiring and sometimes terrifying stories of the artists who shaped one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity, the Dutch Golden Age.
As he explored the hidden wor...
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Male Bonds in Nineteenth-Century Art
2022 || Paperback || Thijs Dekeukeleire e.a. || Leuven University Press
Male bonds were omnipresent in nineteenth-century European artistic scenes, impacting the creation, presentation, and reception of art in decisive ways. Men’s lives and careers bore the marks of their relations with other men. Yet, such male bonds are seldom acknowledged for what they are: gendered and historically determined social constructs. This volume shines a critical light on male homosociality in the arts of the long nineteenth century by combining art history with the insights of g...
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Collecting Asian Art
Cultural Politics and Transregional Networks in Twentieth-Century Central Europe
2024 || Paperback || Markéta Hánová e.a. || Leuven University Press
Rather than centring on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turn to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections...