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Byzantine Art by Mr Robin Cormack (Professor Emeritus, Courtauld Institute of Art)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Oxford History of Art
A beautifully illustrated, new edition of the best single-volume guide to Byzantine art, providing an introduction to the whole period and range of styles.
Classical Art by Mary Beard
Category: Art and Design | Series: Oxford History of Art
The stunning masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western culture and to the origins of art history. The expanding Greek world of Alexander the Great had an enormous impact on the Mediterranean superpower of Rome. Generals, rulers, and artists seized, imitated, ...Show more
Modern Architecture by Alan Colquhoun
Category: General Fiction | Series: Oxford History of Art S.
Presents an account of international modernism, exploring the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assessing its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as, Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined, shedding light on t ...Show more
Northern Renaissance Art by Susie Nash
Category: Art and Design | Series: Oxford History of Art
This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way that art was made, valued, and viewed in northern Europe in the age of the Renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early years of the sixteenth century. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from inventories and guild regulations topoetry and ch ...Show more
The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia by Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Category: Art | Series: Oxford History of Art S.
The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface. Comprising thousands of islands and hundreds of cultural groups, Polynesia and Micronesia cover a large part of this vast ocean, from the dramatic mountains of Hawaii to the small, flat coral islands of Kiribati. Including both traditional and c ...Show more
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