"This, the final volume in this series discusses how American art evolved from the social realism prevalent during the 1930s to a predominantly abstract art after the war, relates this change to America's growing economic and political dominance of the post-war world, and constrasts the abstraction of American art with the persistently realistic art of France. The authors then review the era of high Modernism in the 1960s and the challen ..."
The Lost World of Byzantium(Reprint) by JonathanHarris Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2016 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22353-8, ISBN: 0-300-22353-6
"A fresh, concise, and accessible history of one of the medieval world’s greatest empires For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emperors and battles and instead recounts the empire’s extraordinary history by focusing each chronologi ..."
Byzantium and The Crusades(2nd Edition) Second Edition by JonathanHarris Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-78093-831-8, ISBN: 1-78093-831-4
"This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris's landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history. The book offers a chronological exploration of Byzantium and the outlook of its rulers during the time of the Crusades. It argues that one of the main keys to Byzantine interaction with Western Europe, the Crusades and the crusader states can be found in the na ..."
Constantinople(2nd Edition) Capital of Byzantium by Dr JonathanHarris Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-4742-5464-9, ISBN: 1-4742-5464-0
"Jonathan Harris' new edition of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, Constantinople, provides an updated and extended introduction to the history of Byzantium and its capital city. Accessible and engaging, the book breaks new ground by exploring Constantinople's mystical dimensions and examining the relationship between the spiritual and political in the city.This second edition includes a range of new material, such as:* Historiograp ..."
Constantinople Capital of Byzantium by JonathanHarris Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2007 by Continuum ISBN-13: 978-1-84725-179-4, ISBN: 1-84725-179-X
"In the early Middle Ages, the greatest city in Europe was not Paris, London or Berlin but Constantinople, capital of Byzantium. It was an article of faith that a saintly emperor, divinely appointed, had founded Constantinople and that the city was as holy as Rome or Jerusalem. The Byzantine emperors assiduously promoted the notion of a spiritual aura around the city. Thus, in 917, the emperor's regent wrote to the khan of the Bulgars wa ..."
"In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world. First major anthology of essays concerned with the impact of globalization on ..."
"Beginning with the near collapse of Byzantium in the seventh century, the book traces its survival and development through to its absorption by the Ottoman Empire."
Constantinople Capital of Byzantium by JonathanHarris Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2009 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-3086-1, ISBN: 0-8264-3086-4
"In the early Middle Ages, the greatest city in Europe was not Paris, London or Berlin but Constantinople, capital of Byzantium. It was an article of faith that a saintly emperor, divinely appointed, had founded Constantinople and that the city was as holy as Rome or Jerusalem. The Byzantine emperors assiduously promoted the notion of a spiritual aura around the city. Thus, in 917, the emperor's regent wrote to the khan of the Bulgars wa ..."
"Designed for a single-semester undergraduate course, this introductory economics textbook updates traditional macroeconomics to encompass twenty-first century concerns. In contrast to standard texts, the book starts with the question of human well-being, and then examines how economic activities can contribute to or detract from it."Macroeconomics in Context" covers standard macroeconomic concepts and models, and shows how they apply to ..."
The New Art History(1st Edition) A Critical Introduction (Hardback) by JonathanHarris Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-23007-0, ISBN: 0-415-23007-1
Social History of Art, Boxed Set(3rd Edition) The Social History of Art, Vol. 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age by Arnold Hauser, JonathanHarris Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1999 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-19948-3, ISBN: 0-415-19948-4
"First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced. This new edition provides an excellent introduction to the work of Arnold Hauser. In his general ..."
Seizing Amber(1st Edition) Signed Copy by JonathanHarris Hardcover, 267 Pages, Published 1997 by Sourcebooks Inc ISBN-13: 978-1-57071-712-3, ISBN: 1-57071-712-5
"From the streets of New York to the gardens of Paris and the ornate drawing rooms of Renaissance Florence, Seizing Amber follows a high stakes quest for one of the world’s most valuable treasures. The Amber Room—an exquisite chamber made of amber panels that was stolen from the Russians during World War II—holds not only its priceless value, but the key to the lives of those who seek it. Now in the post–Cold War present, Isaiah Hawkins ..."
Dead History, Live Art?(1st Edition) Spectacle, Subjectivity and Subversion in Visual Culture since the 1960s (Tate Liverpool Critical Forum) by JonathanHarris, Liverpool University Press Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Liverpool University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-85323-189-9, ISBN: 0-85323-189-3
"While scholars and critics generally agree that the 1960s signaled the end of high modernism, what is less clear is how to characterize contemporary art since the 1960s. Acclaimed art scholar Jonathan Harris here tackles this question by assembling a rich body of essays, along with an extended interview with renowned feminist art scholar Amelia Jones, that tracks the movements in and issues central to contemporary art practice since thi ..."
Value, Art, Politics (Liverpool University Press - Value-Art-Politics) by JonathanHarris Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2007 by Liverpool University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-042-3, ISBN: 1-84631-042-3
"Value, Art, Politics draws together questions of value and evaluation in relation to studies of historical and contemporary art and artists, within a broad 'social history of art' conceptual framework. Topics covered include the status of aesthetic and other judgements and their relation to analytic methods in the discipline; the reformulation of feminist aesthetics and cultural politics; the impact of postcolonial theory; the status of ..."
"Over the past fifty years, the history and culture of the Byzantine empire has ceased to be the preserve of a few scholars and is now taught and debated in universities all over the world. This book provides an introduction to the source material and to the very best recent writing on the empire's political history (306-1453), its art, army, religion, literature and economy. Recent developments in gender studies and archaeology are also ..."
"The emergent discipline of ecological economics is based on the idea that the world's economies are a function of the earth's ecosystems -- an idea that radically reverses the world view of neoclassical economics. "A Survey of Ecological Economics" provides the first overview of this new field, and a comprehensive and systematic survey of its critical literature.The editors of the volume summarize ninety-five seminal articles, selected ..."
"27. “O reorganizatsii kultprop TsK VKP(B). Iiun 8, 1935,” Partiinoe Stroitel'stvo, no
. 11 (1935), 47. The director of the new agitprop department was A. Stetskii, who
became the editor of Bol'shevik at this juncture and held that position until April ..."
"Jonathan Harris demonstrates that the leaders of Stalin's Secretariat clashed sharply over the nature of the Communist party's "leadership" of the Soviet state in the period between 1939 and 1948. The term "party leadership" is generally misunderstood; it does not refer to the activities of the party as a whole, but to the efforts of its full time officials (the "inner party") to direct the activities of the members of the party who man ..."
"This is the final volume in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. The books seek to explain the most important issues confronting any study of modern art, without attempting exhaustive coverage. They present a range of approaches characteristic of current art-historical debates. This fourth volume focuses on art since the 1930s, the main emphasis being on the ..."