Op het Belgische platteland lijken de roaring twenties op het eerste gezicht ver weg. Maar wie goed luistert, hoort de moderne jazz over de rivier de Leie schallen. Aangetrokken door het landelijke en pure karakter vestigen vele schilders en schrijvers zich in de jaren 1920 in de Leiestreek, zo ook de Gentse kunstenaarsvrienden Gustave De Smet en Frits Van den Berghe. Zij behoren tot de belangrijkste schilders van wat het ‘Vlaamse expressionisme’ wordt genoemd en brengen de moderne figura...

Boeken kan je niet alleen lezen, je kan er ook mee pronken.

De schitterendste boekbanden zijn de geborduurde, gemaakt van zijde, goud, zilver en parels afkomstig uit de hele wereld. Pure luxe, maar ook stille getuigen van een maatschappij in beweging.

Meer dan dertig geborduurde boekbanden uit de periode 1585-1670 hebben de tand des tijds doorstaan. Ze liggen zorgvuldig opgeslagen in musea en bibliotheken in de hele wereld. Dit was dé bloeiperiode van de borduurkunst, maar er is bijzonder we...

Queer Exhibition Histories comprises case studies highlighting the countless efforts, both large and small, of LGBTQIA+ artists and curators, centring on queer art exhibitions and their modes of documentation and archiving. Often, the legacy of these projects largely depends on personal archives, memories, and paraphernalia, with the overriding notion, or need, for public display. In these contexts, ‘public’ is relative in events that were either short-lived, held under the veil of domest...

A unique guide to making sense of modern and contemporary art through seven different approaches, focusing on twenty major artworks from around the world.

This richly illustrated, four-colour textbook introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through to the Roman conquest. Suitable for students with no prior knowledge of ancient art, this textbook reviews the main objects and monuments of the ancient Greek world, emphasizing the context and function of these artefacts in their particular place and time. Students are led to a rich understanding of how objects were meant to be perceived, what 'messages' they transm...

Focusing on the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy and Hungary, countries that represent key variations in European public administration, this textbook explores how the cultural, organizational, personnel and financial dimensions of public administration compare. The guiding questions are whether, to what extent and why the politico-administrative systems and their reforms show convergence or divergence from Europeanization. Key features of the second edition: Country profiles, comparative r...

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 ...

This book explores a phenomenon in the history of print collecting that has never been extensively investigated: the cutting and pasting of prints in the Early Modern period. The book focuses on the colourful Dutch classical scholar and libertine Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716). Beverland was banished from the Dutch Republic in 1679 for publishing blasphemous, heterodox, and provocative scholarly texts on sex and sin. Books that dealt with e.g. prostitution in ancient times, original sin as th...

De iconografie is die richting in de kunstgeschiedenis die zich bezighoudt met de onderwerpen in de beeldende kunst en hun betekenis. Vooral bij kunstwerken uit vroeger tijden treffen we vaak voorstellingen aan waarvan de inhoud de moderne beschouwer niet zo één-twee-drie duidelijk is. Wanneer een zeventiende-eeuwse schilder bijvoorbeeld een vrouw met een leeg weegschaaltje afbeeldt, is de kans groot dat hij daarmee niet zomaar een aardig tafereeltje uit het dagelijks leven wilde weergeven.

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After the death of Stalin, a small group of art enthusiasts in the Soviet Union started to collect modernist artworks that were considered formalist or anti-revolutionary, and were therefore ignored by official art institutions.

By doing so, these collectors played a pivotal role in the preservation of a crucial and now globally celebrated period of Russian cultural history.

The Paleev collection is the last of these private art collections to remain intact and in the hands of the family. It...