Decorative arts

This book explores the media ecologies of literature - the ways in which a literary text is interwoven in its material, technical, performative, praxeological, affective, and discursive network and which determine how it is experienced and interpreted.

Landscript 5 examines Material Culture in landscape architecture theory and design.

This book provides an introduction to anthropological perspectives on art.

Beads, bracelets, necklaces, pendants and many other ornaments are familiar objects that play a fundamental role in personal expression and communication.

A Visual Dictionary of Decorative and Domestic Arts provides a common and unambiguous vocabulary for the parts of handcrafted decorative, domestic, and artistic items.

Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration investigates how three associated concepts-house, home and homeland-are represented in contemporary global art.

* A Financial Times Book of the Year * A Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Summer Read *HOLD THE POWER AND GLORY OF ANCIENT ROME IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.

A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabitand the insidious ways this realm harms us all.

On March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrid's largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and more than 1,500 others wounded.

Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.

Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary 'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, Childhood By Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood offers new approaches to the material world of childhood and design culture for children.

Textile design inhabits a liminal space spanning art, design and craft.

An accessible, vivid and up-to-date student-level introduction to the coinage and history of the Hellenistic world (323–31 BC).

'I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot' - John Maclean, Speech from the Dock, 1918.

A fresh, unstuffy guide to the stained-glass windows of England's churches, including a list of the top 50 places to see outstanding examples.

Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible is the first monograph to treat dress and adornment in biblical literature in the English language.

Gift-giving played an important role in political, social and religious life in medieval and early modern Europe.

New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and imagesTales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century.

Our contemporary global digital society is not always a good place to live.

A practical guide to drawing and painting beautiful Islamic botanical patterns.

Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change.

This major volume aims to re-colour the European world of dress, c.

Kaum ein Telekommunikationssystem kann auf eine solch lange und wechselhafte Entwicklungsgeschichte zurückblicken wie die Videotelefonie: Während sie einerseits ein stetiges gesellschaftliches und kulturelles Interesse an dieser Technik markiert, dokumentiert sie doch gleichzeitig auch den ausbleibenden Erfolg der Videotelefonie.

This Element shows how costume books and albums helped to shape a new visual culture in the early modern period.

What do things mean?

This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today.

Ever wondered why your ceiling is shaped like the arches in a gothic cathedral?

From handwritten texts to online books, the page has been a standard interface for transmitting knowledge for over two millennia.

Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy.

This book summarizes archaeological approaches to the contemporary past, and suggests a new agenda for the archaeology of late modern societies.

In 1975 Laura Mulvey published her seminal essay on the male gaze, ushering in a new era in understanding the politics and theory of looking at the female body.

One of the most popular interior design trends, minimalism highlights the essence of a room, stressing clean lines, clutter-free spaces, and a limited color palette.

A treasure trove of human creativity from around the world History of the World in 1000 Objects takes a fresh look at world history, viewing cultures and early civilizations through the objects that they created.

Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be.

For Virginia Woolf, H.

The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers.

Traditional dress is a common phenomenon across much of Western Europe, often originating in elaborate practices for rural religious events.

Rubbish is something we ignore.

Colour, Art and Empire explores the entanglements of visual culture, enchanted technologies, waste, revolution, resistance and otherness.

A vivid account of Dutch seventeenth-century art and material culture against the backdrop of the geopolitics of the early modern worldThe seventeenth century witnessed a great flourishing of Dutch trade and culture.

Shine allures and awakens desire.

Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines.

In Great and Noble Jar, Cinda K.

Arguing for a paleocybernetic approach to current media studies debates, Nicolas Salazar Sutil develops an original framework for a new media ecology that embraces the primitive, the prehistoric, and the brute.

This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them.