Tom Stammers 
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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This book addresses the paucity of published research specifically dealing with knowledge of text typeface design processes. Dr Michael Harkins uses a Grounded Theory Methodology to render a triparti …

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial worl …