Albert Schachter 
Boiotia in Antiquity [EPUB ebook] 
Selected Papers

Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women“s material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-cent …

The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of …

The story of "The Adventures of Captain John Patterson" takes the reader on an exciting journey into unknown territories. It tells the story of Captain John Patterson’s exciting adventures …

Hilton Kramer, well known as perhaps the most perceptive, courageous, and influential art critic in America, is also the founder and co-editor (with Roger Kimball) of The New Criterion. This comprehe …

A compelling biographical study of a leading twentieth-century British artist, “Graham Sutherland: Life, Work and Ideas“ offers new insight into how he and his paintings developed. In the culminati …

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular “moment“ in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing o …

Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books were produced by hand and their illustration using br …

What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration – part dialogue, part voyage – with the video installations of Finnish ar …

"The School for Scandal" is a comedy of manners play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It premiered at Drury Lane Theatre in London on May 8, 1777. The play is a quintessential example …

First published in 1994. The term “Canopic“, as applied to the containers employed by the Egyptians to contain the embalmed internal organs of the deceased, derives from a case of mistaken identity …