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”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 …

This important study introduces the key theories of national identity, and relates them to the broad fields of product, graphic and fashion design. Javier Gimeno-Martinez approaches the inter-relatio …

"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 …

An annotated index and general orientation of Islamic art collections in museums, libraries, other institutions and on private hands. Includes a short description of each collection, its main charact …

Photography of art has served as a basis for the reconstruction of works of art and as a vehicle for the dissemination and reinterpretation of art. This book provides the first definitive treatment 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 …

This book provides a critical overview of rural change over the eighty years since the outbreak of the Great War, making clear the historical origins of present-day policy. It also provides a structu …

The book represents a continuation of research begun by Cooper in Hong Kong in the early 1970s among expatriate artisan furniture makers and woodcarvers from Dongyang County, Zhejiang Province. He no …

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 …

Suffrage and the Arts re-establishes the central role that artistic women and men-from jewellers, portrait painters, embroiderers, through to retailers of ”artistic” products-played in the suffrage …