Schools, Periods & Styles

Prizewinning author Harr embarks on a spellbinding journey to discover the long-lost painting known as "The Taking of Christ." The fascinating details of the artist Caravaggio's strange, turbulent career and the astonishing beauty of his work come to life in these pages.An Italian village on a hillt... More

Art Deco architecture flourished in large cities and small towns throughout America in the 1920s and 1930s. The style is now captured in over 500 color photos of 75 lavish and innovatively designed buildings across the country that have been preserved both outside and in, giving the full scope of th... More

Masterpieces of Indian Art encompasses the vast gamut of art high-lighting the many tributaries that make up the perennial river of art through choice pictures of masterpieces produced in each age and category. Lavishly illustrated and replete with historical information.Masterpieces of Indian Art e... More

The centrality of this book is the 'vision of the revolutionaries' as manifested in their writings in archival records, their syncretic vision, miraculous modes of communications, the working of their government, and the nature and immensity of this Great War, with its pan Indian extent. The twin go... More

Bombay Art Deco presents a treasury of Art Deco buildings comprising residential, commercial and civic architecture created during the glamorous and optimistic era of the mid 1930's and 1940's. The architects, a small list of first generation Indian architects and builders, were mostly educated in E... More

How many baked beans would one need to place, end to end, to reach the moon? What is the opposite of a camel? These and many other strange mysteries are solved in this uproarious collection, based on the questions sent to the Any Questions Answered (AQA) service in the UK and the answers they genero... More

Monuments, Objects, Histories surveys the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. It looks at processes by which ‘lost pasts’ came to be produced in India. Such lost pasts, the author shows, came to be imagined around a corpus of monuments, ... More

Rarely has the subject of erotica come under the serious purview of Indian art. Grossly under-represented and misused as a source of titillation by some; a marketing principle by others-erotica has finally found the focus it deserves with this book. From the earliest terracotta images of the Mother ... More

This book offers select face-to-face encounters with imaginative minds of 20th century Indian visual art. Culled from the author's 25 years as a cultural journalist, these are voices from painting, sculpture, design, and photography. Between these covers, art comes to life in vivid shades, through i... More

Satish Gujral: An Artography is a befitting tribute to the vast and varied oeuvre of Satish Gujral, presented through three masterly essays: 'Satish Gujral: A Singular Journey' by Gayatri Sinha; 'Ecce Homo! Behold the Man! A Retrospective of Satish Gujral' by Santo Datta and 'Satish Gujrat: Artist-... More

This intimate, colorful, superbly researched account of the world's most popular artists, the Impressionists, takes readers into the artists' homes, as well as their studios and describes their unconventional, volatile, and precarious lives, as well as their canvasses and theories. 8-page color inse... More

The only small, popular book on the important subject of ancient calendars. The study of heavenly cycles is common to most ancient cultures. The ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Babylonians all tried to make sense of the year. But it fell to the later Mesoamerican Maya to create a series of calendars... More

A language-oriented anthology, suited to the needs of undergraduate students.... More

Contemporary art, continued...Unless you regularly trawl the Chelsea galleries, hang out at the Tate Modern, peruse the Pompidou, attend every Biennale, and religiously read Artforum, you could probably use a primer on the art scene in the world today. Fortunately we've created our second "Art Now" ... More

FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992) POSSESSED THE RARE ABILITY TO TRANSFORM UNCONSCIOUS COMPULSIONS INTO FIGURATIVE, HUMAN-LIKE FORMS THAT SEEM TO EVOKE THE RAW EMOTIONS THAT BORE THEM. MIXING REALISM AND ABSTRACTION, BACON DELVES DEEP BENEATH THE SURFACES OF THINGS, OPENING UP THE HUMAN BODY TO REVEAL THE CH... More

An overview of the celebrated genius's work as an artist and draftsman presents color reproductions of numerous well-known paintings, including the "Mona Lisa," Black-and-white portraits and figure drawings are also featured, along with images from Leonardo's anatomical and scientific drawings and n... More

Outstanding collection of over 400 designs and illustrations, selected from authentic sources of medieval and Gothic ornamentation, includes woodcuts of human figures and walled cities, images of fanciful beasts and creatures of the sea and air, drawings of turreted castles, knights in armor, and mu... More