Die erste umfassende Darstellung des Jugendstils in Berlin stellt sieben Künstler vor, die hier den Jugendstil prägten: Bruno Möhring, Alfred Grenander, Otto Eckmann, Henry van de Velde, August Endell, Theodor Schmuz-Baudiß und Peter Behrens.
'A wonderful, vibrant account' Susie Dent'A secret history like no other' BBC History Magazine, Books of the Year 2024Longlisted for the 2025 Berger PrizeWhat if walls could talk?
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of goods from Portuguese trading voyagesfruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people.
The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism In the eighteenth century, women's contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives.
The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system.
The Gentle Art of Quilt-Making is a charming, inspirational and practical collection of 14 quilts for would-be quilters by leading author Jane Brocket.
Craft is at the very heart of British identity, from stained-glass windows in country churches to the Enid Blyton charm of thatched houses; from Harris Tweed (famously poached by Coco Chanel) to the ceremonial livery worn by horses at Buckingham Palace.
This edited volume represents the research results of two international conferences organized and sponsored by the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg: "e;Environmental Approaches in Pre-Modern Middle Eastern Studies"e; and "e;Material Culture Methods in the Middle Islamic Periods"e;.
The first major history of photography from coastal East AfricaThe ports of the Swahili coastZanzibar and Mombasa among themhave long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge.
