Tom Stammers 
Purchase of the Past [PDF ebook] 
Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790-1890

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 …

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 …

This study compares text/image interaction as manifested in emblem books (and related forms) and the modern bande dessinée, or French-language comic strip. It moves beyond the issue of defining the e …