Dutch world maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with their decorative pictures and elaborate typography, stand in sharp contrast to the wholly practical maps of today, which emphasize pre
Philosopher Casey (State U. of New York, Stony Brook) describes the way artists of the past half-century have incorporated ingenious mapping techniques into their work, showing how earth art and paint
Handbook of Decorative Motifs is a treasury of nature-inspired design ideas, packaged in one handy volume for artists and designers at every level of expertise and working in any medium. From plants
Animals: A First Art Book presents wonderful paintings of animals dating from medieval times to the present, by artists such as Renoir, Dürer, Hokusai, Warhol, and Hockney. With excellent full-c
Magnificent Elizabeth, innocent Princes in the Tower, Mary Queen of Scots on the scaffold, and beautiful, tragic Lady Jane Grey—that is how we think of them. The spell they cast is one of reali
Many historians of medieval art now look beyond soaring cathedrals to study the relationship of architecture and image-making to life in medieval society. InThe Art of Healing, Marcia Kupfer explores
Many Impressionist paintings of modern life and leisure include images of household pets. Their appealing presence lends charm to such works while alluding to middle-class prosperity and the growing
Combat in the Sky vividly portrays the heart-stopping drama of aerial combat in over 85 full-color paintings and illustration paintings by the world's leading aviation artists from North America and t
Hudson River School paintings are among America's most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Martin Johnson Heade left a powerful legacy
Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)--court physician to the king of Saxony--was a naturalist, amateur painter, and theoretician of landscape painting whose Nine Letters on Landscape Painting is an important
At once military, social and art history, this book elucidates various visual media, much of it little known, that denounce military cruelty in the Netherlands of the 16th and 17th century. This uniqu
This relatively small (9x7.25) paperbound book a reprint (1994, Chameleon Books) is an attractive compendium of interest to travellers, artists, and others with a feeling for the landscape of the Amer
The Highwaymen introduces a group of young black artists who painted their way out of the despair awaiting them in the citrus groves and packing houses of 1950s Florida. As their story recaptures the
McGrath (art history, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire) has an intimate knowledge of the subject, both the landscape depicted, and the history of its depiction, and the quality, range (he covers print
This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together and examines for the first time a delightful collection of English gardens rendered by artists from 1540 to the early nineteenth century, many of w
What is landscape? How does it differ from "land?" Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is "nature?" Is it everyth
The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city,equipped with boulevards, cafes, parks, and suburban pleasuregrounds--the birthplace of those habits of commerce and leisure thatconsti
