Jeannette Shambaugh Elliot & David Shambaugh 
Odyssey of China’s Imperial Art Treasures [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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Encountering Things brings together leading design scholars to explore the relationship between thing theory and design, exploring production processes and offering an engaging, theoretical perspecti …

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 …

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 …

If postmodernism is indeed »the cultural logic of late capitalism», why did typical postmodernist themes like ornament, colour, history and identity find their application in the architecture of th …

This volume explores the earliest appearances and functions of the five major Egyptian goddesses Neith, Hathor, Nut, Isis and Nephthys. Although their importance endured throughout more than three mi …