Ian Buruma 
Theater of Cruelty [EPUB ebook] 

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 …

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 …

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 …

We don“t just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces we inhabit. We are born, work, love and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent it and squat in it, create …

"Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest, " by Katharine Berry Judson, is an enthralling investigation of Native American folklore from the American Southwest and California. …

Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production processes and offering an engaging, theoretical perspecti …

This is without question the best book ever written on O“Keeffe“ New Yorker Born on a wheat farm in Wisconsin in 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia O“Keeffe had her eyes wide open to the …

From 2016-2018, teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil found themselves at the center of a crisis. A new right-wing government suspended payment of staff salaries a …

Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance, in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical art and a fascinating sketch of the world of the …