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Shock City
Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester
A bold reassessment of the major architectural monuments and urban forms of the world’s first industrial city: Manchester From the mid-eighteenth century to the nineteen-twenties, from the birth of the Industrial...
Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture
A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) transformed the...
Boundary Trouble in American Vanguard Art, 1920-2020
A profound examination of the complex constructs that have kept “outsider” and self-taught artists on the margins of the mainstream The artists in Boundary Trouble in American Vanguard Art defy binary...
The Qur'an: Text and Commentary, Volume 1
Early Meccan Suras: Poetic Prophecy
The first volume of a world-renowned scholar’s long-awaited Qur’an commentary, now available in English Angelika Neuwirth’s six-volume commentary, published originally in Germany, offers a historical and...
Pictural Abstraction 1980-Today
The Tangle of Life
Unmaking the East India Company
British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858
Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state’s nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire This...
Surrealism, Art, and Modern Science
Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology
During the same period that Surrealism originated and flourished between the wars, great advances were being made in the field of physics. This book offers the first full history, analysis and interpretation of...
Viewing Renaissance Art
This book focuses on the values, priorities, and motives of patrons and the purposes and functions of art works produced north and south of the Alps and in post-Byzantine Crete. It begins by considering the social range...
Why Architecture Matters
Now in paperback after five printings, a remarkable journey through the built world from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker critic and "America's foremost interpreter of public architecture" (Tracy Kidder)
The Palestinians
Photographs of a Land and Its People from 1839 to the Present Day
A crossroads of religions, politics, and cultures with deep symbolic and historical significance, the holy land of Palestine has a resonance far greater than its size. Notably, the centuries-old conflict there has catapulted...