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Spanish Majolica in the New World
Types of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Willem Drost
A Rembrandt Pupil in Amsterdam and Venice
Willem Drost (1633–1659) was one of Rembrandt’s most gifted pupils, and he is also considered one of the most mysterious. This book, the first ever devoted to this exceptional artist, unravels many of the mysteries of Drost’s...
Bodybuilding
Reforming Masculinities in British Art 1750-1810
This original book explores the radical transformation of the heroic male body in late eighteenth-century British art. It ranges across a period in which a modern art world was established, taking into account the lives and...
Tight Lines
Ten Years of the Yale Anglers' Journal
“I don’t know why I fish, or why others fish, except that it makes us think and feel.”—Roderick Haig-Brown, 1946 Since the first copy of the Yale Anglers’ Journal appeared in 1996, readers with an...
The English National Character
The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair
What makes the English so English? Is there such a thing as an English national character? What kind of people are “the English”? What characteristic traits and behavior (if any) distinguish them from...
A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy
A comprehensive reference work of notoriously difficult concepts and themes in continental philosophy With over 450 definitions and articles by an international team of specialists, this comprehensive...
Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery
This magnificent two-volume set explores one aspect of the outstanding collection of furniture that the great collector Sir William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), bequeathed to the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port...
A Landscape Manifesto
A timely new strategy for landscape design in urban environments Diana Balmori, an innovative and influential landscape architect in the field of urban design, makes the case for landscape as an art in...
La Pitia
An Archaeological Series in Northwestern Venezuela
In the Olden Time
Victorians and the British Past
In this richly textured and wide-ranging survey of Victorian attitudes to the past, Andrew Sanders builds on Roy Strong’s groundbreaking book And when did you last see your father?: The Victorian Painter and British...