This is a study of the significance of Degas's painting A Cotton Office in New Orleans , in terms of its representation of 19th-century capitalism. The study concentrates on the social meanings of the painting in the light of...

This book describes the foundation and early history of Westminster Abbey, and in particular its endowments of land, some of which formed a corridor through Middlesex.

This work is an examination of the tomb of Napoleon - its construction process, historical context, and political and social meanings. It documents the problems inherent in building an appropriate monument and the debate it...

This book explores how traditional relations among the arts have changed in our time, focusing on the radical transformation of Paul Cezanne.

An examination of the Nasser Khalili Collection of Islamic art, which catalogues specifically the 250 Arabic documents written in papyrus which are owned by the Collection. The entries are catalogued according to the type of...

Das Allgemeine Kunstlerlexikon (AKL) bietet in jedem Band rund 1.000 Biographien bildender Kunstler aus aller Welt und allen Zeiten, von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Enthalten sind nicht nur Maler, Bildhauer oder Architekten,...

Based on an interdisciplinary seminar at the Universiteat Keoln during the 1990/91 winter term.