Cliff Edwards 
Van Gogh’s Second Gift: A Spiritual Path to Deeper Creativity [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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

"The Warden" by Anthony Trollope centers on the life of Septimus Harding, an elderly clergyman who serves as the warden of a charitable almshouse. The story explores themes of clerical duty …

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 …

 »I imagine its being rediscovered with delight in some dusty book case a century hence and hailed as a classic » Spectator  »A wonderful book, a hymn to the pleasurable process of making things » Th …