Throughout the Cold War era, a sustained and intense dialogue developed between both the West and East German and the North American art scenes on artistic, socio-cultural, institutional and economic levels. Entangled Art Histories offers new insights into the complex and intertwined transatlantic networks that gradually emerged in the wake of movements such as Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptualism, involving artists, museums, galleries, curators, critics, and the art market.

The essays in th...

Rijk geïllustreerd boek over het grootste, kostbaarste en beroemdste poppenhuis uit de 17de eeuw Nieuwe foto’s tonen alle facetten van het poppenhuis Het poppenhuis is een van de hoogtepunten in de tentoonstelling Thuis in de 17de eeuw in het Rijksmuseum (oktober 2025 – januari 2026) Aan het einde van de 17de eeuw, in het bruisende Amsterdam, laat de welvarende Petronella Oortman een poppenhuis maken. Geen kinderspeelgoed, maar een meesterwerk op miniatuurschaal, vervaardigd door de mee...

‘Ken U zelf!’? Wat bezielt ons? Wie of wat heerst in onze binnenkamer?: Eros

als verpersoonlijking van de hartstocht, de overgave, het zinnelijke genot,

de roes? Of Psyché als belichaming van de ziel, het beschouwelijke, het

rationeel-schone?

In de roman ‘Hels en Hemels’ biedt schrijver Henk Swart tegenstrijdige

antwoorden op deze vragen door de lezer onder te dompelen in een

turbulente, gewelddadige tijd, de 16de en 17de eeuw. We leven mee met drie

hoofdpersonen die op de drempel va...

This posthumously published essay presents Hans De Wolf's sharp analysis of one of the greatest rivalries in art history: a rivalry between two centuries, embodied by two of their most prominent figures: Courbet for the 19th and Duchamp for the 20th Century. It is a story in which, in a certain sense, one becomes the perfect enemy of the other. This constellation helped Duchamp to forge his own path, creating an artistic response to Courbet's work with equal relevance and monumentality. The c...

Art, with its finite means, cannot hope to record the infinite variety and complexity of Nature, and so contents itself with a partial statement, addressing this to the imagination for the full and perfect meaning. This inadequation, and the artificial adjustments which it involves, are tolerated by right of what is known as artistic convention; and as each art has its own particular limitations, so each has its own particular conventions. Sculpture reproduces the forms of Nature, but discard...

THE LOVE between man and woman has been told in story and poem since long before the days of Sappho. It forms, indeed, the subject of the great bulk of what we call literature. In music, love's domain is less extended. With the exception song and the opera, most of the greatest music has, in its title at least, no hint of the great heart historyof human kind.

In this respect the plastic arts are more allied to music than to literature. The masterpieces in painting and sculpture generally not ...

An introduction to the artistic and architectural traditions of the Islamic world

'Animal Modernities' challenges the traditional human-centered focus of art history and explores how modern art, visual culture, and modernity itself emerge from relationships between humans and animals. The essays in this volume reveal histories of exploitation and domination, as well as confusion and ambivalence, and occasional moments when affinities between humans and animals have been embraced, and animal agency asserted and acknowledged. The authors collectively point to the importance ...