Series: Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity
(Pub. Date: 10-Jul-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications, ISBN-13: 9781580442763)
At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The stu...More info...
Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-conscio...More info...
(Pub. Date: 13-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477330692)
A comparative, empire-wide study of the ceramics associated with the imperial Inca state, theorizing the role of these highly recognizable vessel forms in legitimizing Inca rule and establishing imperial identities.The beautiful polychrome ceramics o...More info...
The riveting story of how one woman rose from simple beginnings to become one of the most sought-after miniaturists of the Gilded Age. Richly illustrated with over 70 photos, including color images of her rare surviving works.No other female portrait...More info...
The riveting story of how one woman rose from simple beginnings to become one of the most sought-after miniaturists of the Gilded Age. Richly illustrated with over 70 photos, including color images of her rare surviving works.No other female portrait...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040337608)
Many of the major books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 - one of the richest periods in English culture - were embellished with an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects twenty such title-pages which repres...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040337530)
Many of the major books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 - one of the richest periods in English culture - were embellished with an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects twenty such title-pages which repres...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040338742)
Industrial Design in Britain (1976) describes the industrial design movement in Britain from its origins, when it broke away from the Arts and Crafts in 1915, until 1945 when its vital importance to industry was officially recognised, and the Council...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040338759)
Industrial Design in Britain (1976) describes the industrial design movement in Britain from its origins, when it broke away from the Arts and Crafts in 1915, until 1945 when its vital importance to industry was officially recognised, and the Council...More info...
The artistic strategies explored in this book are essential tools in fostering emancipatory consciousness in marginalized communities. Empowering Aesthetics weaves together case studies from the post-socialist Central European region (the Czech Repub...More info...
The artistic strategies explored in this book are essential tools in fostering emancipatory consciousness in marginalized communities. Empowering Aesthetics weaves together case studies from the post-socialist Central European region (the Czech Repub...More info...
(Pub. Date: 15-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978835443)
Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings offers an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Latinx studies and comics studies. The book draws together groundbreaking critical essays, practical pedagogical reflections,...More info...
Series: Visualidades: Studies in Latin American Visual History
(Pub. Date: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477330838)
How the visual culture of food, cookery, and consumption played a central role in the making of postrevolutionary Mexico.Postrevolutionary Mexico City was a site of anxious nation-building, as rampant modernization converged and clashed with the nati...More info...
(Pub. Date: 25-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781804298459)
In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of historical artists as well as that of near contemporaries such as Picasso, L,ger and Matis...More info...
Examines the violins evolution as not just instrument but valued objet dart through the eyes of musicians, collectors, makers, dealers, connoisseurs, journalists, auctioneers and traders.The nineteenth century saw developments in the composition, p...More info...
In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, this books author Joris Escher found two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.C. Escher. The sheets had not been looked at in more than 90 years. He believes that these early stu...More info...
In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, this books author Joris Escher found two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.C. Escher. The sheets had not been looked at in more than 90 years. He believes that these early stu...More info...
A beautifully written memoir by one of the most important and original artists working today . . . utterly gripping, enraging, entertaining and important. I cant recommend it highly enough Jennifer HiggieA sparkling memoir and portrait of trailb...More info...
(Pub. Date: 13-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Auckland University Press, ISBN-13: 9781776711611)
‘ As a boy Tony had drawn maps and diagrams and medieval battle scenes. He d read fairy tales and been enchanted by local sites of Maori history. As a young man he was a vagrant on the streets of Paris, was twice im...More info...
(Pub. Date: 13-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Auckland University Press, ISBN-13: 9781776711611)
‘ As a boy Tony had drawn maps and diagrams and medieval battle scenes. He d read fairy tales and been enchanted by local sites of Maori history. As a young man he was a vagrant on the streets of Paris, was twice im...More info...
(Pub. Date: 06-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040319024)
Encounters with Greek Art sheds new light on the invention of ancient identities by focusing on encounters between viewers and artworks swept to Italy on the tides of Roman imperialism between 146 BCE and 117 CE.Bringing globalization theory to bear...More info...
(Pub. Date: 06-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040319062)
Encounters with Greek Art sheds new light on the invention of ancient identities by focusing on encounters between viewers and artworks swept to Italy on the tides of Roman imperialism between 146 BCE and 117 CE.Bringing globalization theory to bear...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512827026)
How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the citys saints for their ownDomesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creative efforts of some of Romes most prominent noble fami...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512827026)
How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the citys saints for their ownDomesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creative efforts of some of Romes most prominent noble fami...More info...
The first volume to chart the rich and reciprocal relationship between drawing and printmaking from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries.While often viewed and studied separately, drawings and prints have always been closely intertwined. They facili...More info...
The fascinating story of Vincent van Goghs two groundbreaking years in Paris, where he transformed himself from a provincial unknown into one of the worlds great visionary artists.Vincent Van Gogh arrived in the French capital on the last day of Fe...More info...
Reflections on Art and Culture: From Diderots Salons to Panodyssey and Art Explora offers a series of art reviews of some of the most exciting and artistically diverse trends in contemporary painting, sculpture and photography, presented in light of...More info...
Reflections on Art and Culture: From Diderots Salons to Panodyssey and Art Explora offers a series of art reviews of some of the most exciting and artistically diverse trends in contemporary painting, sculpture and photography, presented in light of...More info...
Georg Dehio, Dehio Vereinigung e.V., Dagmar Zimdars
(Pub. Date: 01-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783422802650)
Denkmälerhandbuch und praktisches Nachschlagewerk für die Reise und den Schreibtisch – übersichtlich gegliedert und mit umfangreichem Karten- und Planmaterial ausgestattet. Das vom deutschen Kunsthistoriker Georg Dehio 1905 begründete Handbu...More info...
