Patricia Buckley Ebrey 
Cambridge Illustrated History of China [PDF 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

One of ‘The Eight’—a major group in the history of American painting—John Sloan was also an illustrator and cartoonist. Sloan kept an almost daily diary for eight years, for the most part to entertai …

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 …

Sara Kristoffersson”s compelling study provides the first sustained critical history of IKEA. Kristoffersson argues that the company”s commercial success has been founded on a neat alignment of the …