Painting boats and harbors

This insightful illustrated study investigateshow the Royal Navy lost two battleships and three aircraft carriers to German U-boats during 1939–42. During World W...

In The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in Chinese Landscape Painting and Some Kantian Echoes, Xiaoyan Hu provides an interpretation of the notion of qiyun, or spi...

Abstract From the middle of the nineteenth century, English artists and art writers argued that painting was a powerful, untapped vehicle of social reform. Art ha...

This fully illustrated book assesses the trial of strength between US Navy PT boats and Japanese destroyers operating in the Solomon Islands during 1942–43. Durin...

Abstract Maritime archaeology, the study of man's early encounter with the rivers and seas of the world, only came to the fore in the last decades of the twentiet...