Yale Art Books – Looking Forward to 2020
For 2020 we look forward to a new list of beautiful, insightful art books from Yale University Press…
Art History
A Jane Austen Christmas
The month of December sees festivities held across the globe, but in 1775 a family in Steventon, England…
The Gauguin Atlas
Art historian Dr Linda Goddard characterises the identity of Paul Gauguin as both ‘carefully self-constructed’ and ‘constantly shifting’…
Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin
‘This is not a book,’ the artist Paul Gauguin declared in the opening words of his unconventional memoir…
The Elizabethan Image by Sir Roy Strong – An Extract
In November 1558, Elizabeth I ascended the throne and was confronted with a politically, socially, and culturally fractured…
Nazi Germany and Modernist art
Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. During the war, the arts were closely…
The Avant-garde and the New Typography
How did Jan Tschichold help to form the New Typography in the early twentieth century? Why were he…
Content Collection | For Art History 2019
This year the Association for Art History’s Annual Conference takes place in Brighton from the 4–6 of April….
Nicholas Hilliard, the 1577 Self-Portrait – creating a gentleman-artist
Nicholas Hilliard (b. c.1547) – portrait painter to Elizabeth I, James I, and their courts – was buried…
Veiled Presence: Body and Drapery from Giotto to Titian
Veiled Presence: Body and Drapery from Giotto to Titian elucidates the symbolism of veils and highlights the power of…
The 170th Anniversary of The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
On 8 September 1848, a group of young artists and writers met to write a manifesto and found The Pre-Raphaelite…
The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections – by Robin Simon
To mark the occasion of the opening of the New RA on 19 May 2018 and the celebration of…
Monet and Architecture: An interview with Richard Thomson
The new exhibition Monet and Architecture opens at London’s National Gallery on 9 April. It’s been nearly twenty…
April is for Art History
April is the month when art historians from near and far gather for the annual Association for Art…
International Women’s Day: The Remarkable Women of Yale Books
To celebrate both International Women’s Day and the centenary of women’s suffrage in Britain, we’ve taken a look…