Wide-ranging volume which focuses on the role of supply and demand in creation of images of all kinds. Gombrich develops many of the ideas and themes in the social history of art that have preoccupied him through a lifetime of research and reflection.

James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources.

This parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso examines their greatest creations, showing how these breakthroughs arose from within their fields and from currents in the era's intellectual culture. The author shows how Einstein and Picasso were both working on the same problem.

An alternative view of Western art history. 17 essays by scholars, arranged chronologically, cover every major period from the ancient Egyptian to the present and show the extent of distortion by sexual bias.

Traces the changing art practices, art historical debates, manifestos, challenges, rediscoveries and reawakenings that characterize the continuing dialogue between feminism and contemporary art. This book explores the spaces between feminism and art, uncovering a shifting, reciprocal relationship.

First published in 1951 Arnold Hauser s commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. This new edition of a classic work offers a contemporary introduction.