Tom Stammers 
Purchase of the Past [PDF ebook] 
Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790-1890

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Art of Suicide is a history of the visual representation of suicide from the ancient world to its decriminalization in the 20th century. After looking at instances of voluntary death in ancient G …

The history of art in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance has generally been written as a story of elites: bankers, noblemen, kings, cardinals, and popes and their artistic interests and commiss …