Koen Bostoen & Inge Brinkman 
Kongo Kingdom [PDF ebook] 
The Origins, Dynamics and Cosmopolitan Culture of an African Polity

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 …

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 …

From Elizabeth Keckly»s designs as a freewoman for Abraham Lincoln»s wife to flamboyant clothing showcased by Patrick Kelly in Paris, Black designers have made major contributions to American fashi …

Joinery, Joists and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century is the first publication of its kind to survey the long and rich histories of women and gender non-conforming persons who wor …

Clothing appears in all forms of figurative painting, often taking up two thirds of a frame; yet it can often go unnoticed. Far more than a simple means of identifying the status or occupation of a f …

This title explores the controversy surrounding the design of the new Foreign Office in London during Britain»s Imperial heyday. In 1855 it was decided to build a new block of government offices in …

In this radical and wide-ranging reassessment of Renaissance art, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine examine the ways in which European culture came to define itself culturally and aesthetically in the y …

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 sweatshops to fur farming, from polluting chemicals to painful garments, the fashion industry is associated with activities which have had devastating effects on workers, consumers, and the natu …

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 …