Art History and Visual Culture Reference Collection

This wide-ranging collection will draw from Rowman & Littlefield's acclaimed catalogue to offer a comprehensive exploration of global art across regions, periods, genres, and themes. It features essential reference materials providing coverage of race, gender, identity, colonialism, politics, and numerous other key topics.

Spanning pivotal movements in art history, it showcases the cultural, historical, and creative aspects of artistic expression to provide an excellent foundation for both undergraduate study and scholarly research.

European Art History

This collection provides new scholarship on canonical artists such as Titian, Delacroix, Caravaggio, and Michaelangelo. It spans a broad range of movements and styles including the Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Arts and Crafts, Dada, Art Brut, Impressionism, and Gothic. Landscape painting and portraiture is covered in detail, as well as sculpture and ornament, and exhibition studies.

Users will benefit from a diverse range of titles from Bloomsbury, Routledge, and Amsterdam University Press - including thematic essay collections, comprehensive volumes on single subjects, cutting-edge research monographs, and reference material including topical dictionaries on Baroque, Medieval, and Renaissance art.

Modern Art

This collection will offer a global approach, covering key styles within the Modernist artistic movement, such as Abstract Expressionism, DADA, Avant-garde, Pop Art, and Surrealism.

Its titles have been carefully selected from some of the most important imprints in the field of art and visual culture, such as Taylor and Francis, I.B. Tauris, ABC-CLIO, and Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

Highlights include Hans Luijten’s award-winning biography of Jo van Gogh-Bonger and titles from Bloomsbury’s Transnational Surrealism series, which emerged from the Surrealism Beyond Borders exhibition at Tate Modern and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Theory of Art

This collection will offer over 70 key titles within the field of Art Theory. A diverse range of topics are covered including: Art Therapy, Censorship, Art and Technology, Feminism, Art and Death, Advertising, Humour and Art, and Science. It combines accessible guides to key theories and movements with cutting edge research, including the latest book by notable feminist artist and teacher Mary Kelly.

Visual Culture and Photography

This exciting collection will span a wide variety of themes and visual forms including the visual culture of empire and the visual representation of psychoanalysis. It explores a variety of visual forms including comics, photopoetry, digital images, and photography.

Bloomsbury Vernacular Architecture

Exclusive to the platform, the definitive resource for the study of the world’s vernacular and traditional building cultures. The second edition of this classic work will present a major development in the field, its expanded scope capturing two decades of concerted effort to document and understand the world’s fast-disappearing traditional and vernacular building cultures.

It will feature 3,000 illustrated entries written by the world’s leading scholars of vernacular architecture and material culture, all fully cross-searchable and browsable by theme.