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 …

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 …

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 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 …

How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessible rather than designing products that ‘fix’ disabil …

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 …