Drawn to Nature: The Natural World, Visual Art & Written Word
When recruiting for a Personal Assistant in 2019, Pallant House Gallery director Simon Martin was inspired by one…
art history
A Visual History of Household Servants and Slaves
In this blog, Yale author Diane Wolfthal brings the visual representation of household workers in medieval and early-modern…
Illustrating A Little History of Art: Q+A with Mat Pringle
How do you cover 100,00 years of art history in one book? Moreover, how does an illustrator tackle…
Nonconformers: Undoing Labels and Preconceptions of “Outsider Art” in Britain
By Lisa Slominski In this blog, London-based art curator, writer and cultural producer, Lisa Slominski, introduces her new…
A Little History of Art: Q&A with Charlotte Mullins
Why did our ancestors make art? What does art mean today? These are the questions answered by Charlotte…
Association for Art History Conference 2022
THINK DIFFERENTLY / SEE DIFFERENTLY / #ForArtHistory2022 Yale University Press Virtual Stand Welcome to the Yale University Press…
The Presence of the Past in French Art, 1870-1905
French art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been widely and richly studied. But modernism…
Staff Pick: Reclaiming Magic
This month’s staff pick theme ‘Reclaiming Magic’ was inspired by the 2021 Summer Exhibition opened at the Royal Academy…
Gainsborough in London | The Later Years
Susan Sloman, author of Gainsborough in London, introduces our blog readers to her long-awaited book, which follows the…
Bruno Lohse, Nazi art plunderer – An extract from Goering’s Man in Paris
Jonathan Petropoulos— I remember clearly my first meeting with Bruno Lohse in June 1998 at the Zentralinstitut in…
Association for Art History Annual Conference 2021 | Virtual Stand
Welcome to the Yale University Press “virtual stand” for this year’s new, fully-online Association for Art History 2021…
A Closer Look at Art | Techniques of Painting
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
A Closer Look at Art | Landscape
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
A Closer Look at Art | Christian Religious Painting
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
A Closer Look at Art | Mythological Painting
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…