What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists among others have changed our notions of what art history has been, is,and might be.

This antholog...

The Sociology of News reviews and synthesizes not only what is happening to journalism but also what is happening to the scholarly understanding of journalism. In the Second Edition, each chapter of the book has been updated to account for the radical changes that have reshaped the news industry over the last decade. With a new chapter on the sharp contraction of the news business in the United States since 2007, The Sociology of News examines journalism as a social institution and analyzes t...

The first global history of architecture to give equal attention to Western and non-Western structures and built landscapes, Architecture since 1400 is unprecedented in its range, approach, and insight. From Tenochtitlan's Great Pyramid in Mexico City and the Duomo in Florence to Levittown's suburban tract housing and the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, its coverage includes the world's most celebrated structures and spaces along with many examples of more humble vernacular buildings. Lavishl...

From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author) as it reveals the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

In the United States, democracy is under attack by an authoritarian movement that has found fertile ground among the country’s...

Is it best to screen the error for the sake of preserving the art? Or should the art be sacrificed for the sake of truthfulness? Again and again in history a dominant church has utilised art to maintain its sway over men. Reformers (early Christians, Mohammedans, Puritans, and others) have perceived that art bound people to the old faith, and they were angry with art.

These works, in chronological order,are " My Confession ". A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology, which has never been translated....

Ben je geïnteresseerd in kunst door de eeuwen heen en wil je graag meer weten over de verschillende stromingen en stijlen en hun hoogtepunten? Met behulp van de nieuwste editie van Kunstgeschiedenis voor Dummies maak je kennis met de belangrijkste kunstperioden, de evolutie van de kunst en het werk van vele bekend en minder bekende genieën. Je leest bijvoorbeeld over Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Picasso en Botticelli en waarom we nog steeds gefascineerd zijn door hun werk. Ontdek de plaatsen waa...

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...

Jean François Champollion was een Franse taalwetenschapper die in 1822 de betekenissen van de Egyptische hiërogliefen definitief wist te ontcijferen. Zijn ontdekkingstocht wordt in dit boekje beschreven aan de hand van zijn biografie. Het verhaal wordt geïllustreerd met mooie afbeeldingen van Egyptische kunstwerken. Het boekje is tevens een astrologisch onderzoek naar de planeetwerkingen die samenhingen met deze ontdekking.