Examines the major debates and issues using a range of examples. This book discusses the challenge of using verbal and written language to analyse a visual form. It explains how the traditional emphasis on periods and styles originates in western art production and can obscure other approaches, as well as art from non-western cultures.

This work discusses the study of the ancient world - including Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British antiquities - through the medium of print as a Europe-wide phenomenon, where the visual language of the printed image transcended national boundaries.

This work explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought from the Renaissance onwards.

Examines the historiographic and socio/cultural implications of the mapping of British architectural history with particular reference to eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain.

Includes essays by a group of internationally recognized scholars that consider issues of gender, childhood, sexuality and race in respect of the relationship between biographies and space. This title provides a wide ranging exploration of the formation of identity.

Highly original and thought provoking essays by a group of internationally recognized scholars consider issues of gender, childhood, sexuality and race in respect of the relationship between biographies and space. The result is a wide ranging exploration of the formation of identity.

This work examines key moments in the emergence of London as a metropolis and considers the ways in which its image has been formulated. The chapters address of topics from specific questions of architectural style to the relationship between the City of London and London as a metropolis.

The need for a single public culture - the creation of an authentic identity - is fundamental to our understanding of nationalism and nationhood. This book examines British imperial, colonial and postcolonial national identities within their political and social contexts.

This work explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought from the Renaissance onwards.

Written by a group of international scholars, this illustrated collection of essays investigates the state of architectural historiography, looking at changes across the broad field of theoretical and geographical plurality. Divided into three sections, it addresses the question of the disciplinary particularity of architectural history.

Written by a group of international scholars, this illustrated collection of essays investigates the current state of architectural historiography, looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality.