Renaissance Theory

Edited by James Elkins, Robert Williams

Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary...

Published April 23rd 2008 by Routledge.

Art of the Brooklyn Bridge

A Visual History

By Richard Haw

The Brooklyn Bridge is a pre-eminent global icon. It is the world’s most famous and beloved bridge, a "must-see" tourist hotspot, and a vital fact...

Published February 25th 2008 by Routledge.

A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful

By Edmund Burke

Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton

"One of the greatest essays ever written on art."

Guardian

Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin...

Published February 1st 2008 by Routledge.

Landscape Theory

Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins

Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how...

Published December 17th 2007 by Routledge.

The State of Art Criticism

Edited by James Elkins, MICHAEL NEWMAN

Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of...

Published December 17th 2007 by Routledge.

Biographies & Space

Placing the Subject in Art and Architecture

Edited by Dana Arnold, Joanna Sofaer Derevenski

Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used...

Published December 14th 2007 by Routledge.

The Florentine Villa

Architecture History Society

By Grazia Gobbi Sica

Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum

Time, space and the archive

By Griselda Pollock

Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes...

Published November 22nd 2007 by Routledge.

The Picturesque

Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities

By John Macarthur

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with...

Published September 18th 2007 by Routledge.

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Published prior to the Japanese edition ‘Kohon Nihon Teikoku Bijyutsu Ryakushi’, this is the very first official history of Japanese art compiled in Japan. The...

Published June 15th 2006 by Edition Synapse.