Art & Art History

The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art offers a critical guide for rereading and rethinking religion in the histories of modern and contemporary art.Since the turn of the twenty-first century,...

"Maya Stanfield-Mazzi’s well-researched and thoughtful monograph, full of new material, is the first cultural and technical history of ecclesiastical textiles—imported, locally produced, or a combination of the two—highlighting the ways in which Indigenous artisans participated in outfitting the church." —Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture

Using his background in political theory and philosophical anthropology, Barry Cooper is the first political scientist to propose new interpretations of some of the most famous extant Paleolithic art...

Broderick argues that the iconography of Moses in a famous eleventh-century manuscript has Hellenistic Egyptian origins.

Icons and the Liturgy, East and West offers a critical assessment of the status of liturgical arts in postmodern Catholicism and Orthodoxy and an analysis of the continuity with tradition in creatively engaging the creation of sacred art and icons.

The ambition of Michael Psellos on Literature and Art is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and introduce precisely this aspect of Psellian writing...

This catalogue contains descriptions of nearly two hundred pieces of art from the Baroque age from museum collections throughout the Midwest.

Examines churches and chapels built on campuses during the twentieth century to reveal declining role of religion within the mission of the modern American university.

The contributors of this volume examine beauty and aesthetic theory in nature and human society, in the humanities and science.

Hosle covers the development of the philosophical dialogue beginning with Plato to the late twentieth century, providing a taxonomy and doctrine of categories.