Other Objects of Desire; Collectors and Collecting Queerly explores gay identities and identifications as they are communicated in and through art, and provides a critical approach to the study of collectors and collecting. From Jean de Berry to the internet addict, from Christina of Sweden to Andy Warhol, this collection of essays sets about questioning the terms and methodologies of gay or queer historical studies and the very nature and definition of collecting. Richly illustrated, scholarly and bold, this anthology respresents the work of both young and established Art Historians...

Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction.

• Discusses the discovery of the ancient world through the medium of print in the long eighteenth century.
  
• Looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural...

This thought-provoking book explores the increasing visibility of women's art in Britain, Europe and America.

• Considers the work of American artists Martha Rosler and Kara Walker, Irish artist Alice Maher, British artists Lubaina Himid, Christine Borland, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker, Gillian Wearing and Rachel Whiteread, and the international performance group, moti roti.


• Features specially-commissioned interviews with some of these artists.


• Covers diverse media, from sculpture and painting through to photography,...

A distinguished group of eminent contributors reflect on the writings of Stephen Bann and his influence on the fields of visual studies, art history and cultural history.

• A collection of essays reflecting on the influence of Stephen Bann on the fields of visual studies, art history and cultural history.
  
• Written by a distinguished group of eminent scholars.
  
• Engages with a wide range of subjects from French art and architecture to histories of the garden and painting in China.
  
• Discusses and analyses many of the key...

A collection of essays celebrating Mieke Bal - one of Europe's foremost scholars in art history and visual studies, with a stellar international reputation.

• Brings together contributions by senior and younger scholars in the fields of art history and visual studies who reflect on Mieke Bal's writings and art practice, assessing her contribution and legacies
• The first collection to consider her writing and art in depth, and to develop and extend her thinking in substantial ways
• Themes include some of Bal's most important ideas and concepts in the visual field, such...

Leading international scholars and younger researchers address issues such as museum display, collecting, the creation of visual spectacles, institutional histories, curatorial strategies, cultural exclusion and definitions of heritage.

• An authoritative analysis on the way that art and the visual are displayed and presented
• Explores a variety of cultural contexts and historical periods
• A benchmark collection addressing specific displays and notable objects alongside the politics of spectacle and questions of audience

Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture offers the first systematic investigation of exchanges between the arts, architecture and the theatre. The authors present many new instances of the interaction between the arts, providing a theoretical and historiographical context for these interactions.

• Offers the first systematic investigation of exchanges between the arts, architecture and the theatre, not simply the influence of the theatre on the arts, and vice versa
• Develops a theoretical and methodological model to study such exchanges and interactions
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For the first time, a set of distinguished American and British art historians consider the complex history of Anglo-American relations from the colonial period through to the 1960s

• Features a transatlantic group of scholars considering the impact of this relationship on the history of art in both nations
• Offers a set of new approaches, and much new material relating to the history of British and American art
• Situates the history of British and American art in the context of recent scholarship, offering a new reading of this key artistic interaction
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The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art presents a collection of provocative essays that explore the material qualities of early Dutch art to reveal ways new forms of visual imagery solicit a beholder's involvement.

• Explores how descriptive pictures during the early modern Dutch art period operated as social things and were designed to pleasurably engage the eye and prompt discussion and debate
• Shows how these works potentially raised ethical and political questions about the interconnectedness of engaging with pictures and the material...

The Clever Object presents a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways objects materialise, embody, or negotiate various forms of intelligence, revealing its use as an analytic tool of art-historical interpretation.

• Presents an original theory (-the clever object-) that draws on contributions from a variety of fields, including history of art, anthropology, philosophy of science, and design history
• Features interviews with two contemporary artists
• Advances a theoretical conversation by combining historical contributions (from medieval/early modern)...