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Unpacking My Library
Architects and Their Books
“I am unpacking my library. Yes, I am. . . . Be ready to share with me a bit of the mood—it is certainly not an elegiac mood but, rather, one of anticipation—which these books arouse in a genuine collector. . . ....
The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain
This ambitious and generously illustrated study is an in-depth account of the architectural character of a vast range of eighteenth-century ecclesiastical buildings, including the Anglican parish churches, medieval cathedrals...
Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture
Native Genius Reaffirmed
Paula Murphy, the leading expert on Irish sculpture, offers an extensive survey of the history of sculpture in Ireland in the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the large public works produced during the Victorian...
The Art of Natural History
Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400-1850
Now available in paperback “Making knowledge visible” is how one 16th-century naturalist described the work of the illustrator of botanical treatises. His words reflected the growing role played by...
The Creative Artist's Legal Guide
Copyright, Trademark and Contracts in Film and Digital Media Production
The essential guide to intellectual property law for all media producers—students and teachers, amateurs and professionals In today's complex media environment, aspiring filmmakers and new media artists...
Moses Mendelssohn
Sage of Modernity
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an accessible and fascinating biography of Moses Mendelssohn, the seminal Jewish philosopher"A fascinating portrait of an important Enlightenment figure."—
Citizen Portrait
Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales
For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elite and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavor. But in the second...
Decorating the 'Godly' Household
Religious Art in Post-Reformation Britain
The Reformation is generally regarded as a calamitous episode in the history of British art, with the rich artistic heritage of the medieval period eradicated and replaced by an austere Protestant culture of the word. This...
The Edwardian Sense
Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910
Although numerous studies have explored the Edwardian period (1901–1910) as one of political and social change, this innovative book is the first to explore how art, design, and performance not only registered those changes but...
The 1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition Collections from Machu Picchu
Human and Animal Remains; Vol. #85
Distinguished archaeologists Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar present here three essays on human and animal bones recovered from Machu Picchu in 1912. Incorporating data and techniques previously unavailable to...