The Arts: treatments and subjects

Brilliant and controversial, art critic Sadakichi Hartmann wrote copiously about American and European art and the shaping of American culture during the decades from 1890 to 1910.

This is a visually stunning superb collection of artwork depicting British explorers and their journeys over the centuries.

Through a combination of theory, practice, and a range of interdisciplinary case studies, this book expands how we define and think about the critical role and relationship between design and emergencies.

Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture across media and genre.

Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new understanding of classical architecture in the Asian colonial context.

This volume presents for the first time a curated selection of essays written over the last 30 years by leading design thinker and educator, Tevfik Balcioglu.

Arts, Ecologies, Transitions provides in-depth insights into how aesthetic relations and current artistic practices are fundamentally ecological and intrinsically connected to the world.

New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles: Re-Fashioning Pedagogies offers a wide array of inclusive, global, practical approaches for teaching costume and fashion history.

This book explores histories which have only recently been rediscovered by artists and researchers.

"La historia del siglo xx muestra que hasta prácticamente los años sesenta, cuando emerge la contestación gay, lésbica y trans en las calles, la representación de la diversidad sexual se mueve en líneas generales en el ámbito privado, en la ocultación, en la vergüenza.

 »Meine Krankheit ist meine Kraft « .

 » 30 years later we find that we are all still like we were in '45 .

Environment and human habitation have become principal topics of research with the growing interest in the Black Sea region in antiquity.

Drawing on original designer interviews, this book explores how design interventions can and do support sex and gender equity and what barriers still stand in the way.

This monograph explores the social constructs surrounding artistic production in early modern Iberia through the lenses of gender and class by examining the rarely considered contribution of creative women in Spain and Portugal between 1550 and 1700.

Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th-21st Centuries) proposes a transhistorical analysis that will serve as a reference work on the evolution of literary and artistic representations of chance and contingency.

Die Galerie Thannhauser gehörte mit ihren Häusern in München (1909-1928), Luzern (1919-1928) und Berlin (1927-1937) neben den Kunsthandlungen Cassirer, Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Rosenberg, Ambroise Vollard oder auch der Galerie Wildenstein zu den bedeutendsten Förderern der Moderne im Europa der Vor- und Zwischenkriegszeit.

Birgit Haehnel untersucht die kunst- und kulturhistorische Bedeutung weißer Textilien vorrangig im deutschsprachigen Raum.

This book investigates how work ethics in Europe were conceptualised from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century.

Wer war Max Huggler?

This volume presents for the first time a curated selection of essays written over the last 30 years by leading design thinker and educator, Tevfik Balcioglu.

Lucía Laumann viene a proponer en este libro una nueva, rigurosa y sensible lectura sobre la producción de la reconocida grabadora (aunque también dibujante, pintora, ceramista e impulsora de espacios culturales) Aída Carballo.

 Seit 2004/05 sammelt der Künstler  Dinh Q.

How art played a central role in the design of America's racial enterprise-and how contemporary artists resist it.

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.

 Hrach Bayadyan,einer der führenden Kulturkritiker aus Armenien, konzeptualisiert in seinem Notizbuch  » das Postsowjetische «  neu.

 »  Zu verstehen, wie Liebe ein zentraler und konstitutiver Modus und Motor der Politik sein kann  «   ist wichtigstes Ziel des Philosophen Michael Hardt in diesem Notizbuch.

»Wenn jemand ›Rot‹ sagt (als Bezeichnung einer Farbe) und wenn 50 Personen zuhören, darf man erwarten, dass 50 verschiedene Rot in ihrem Bewusstsein auftauchen.

"e;Paris is the centre of the cult,"e; wrote Robert Hichens in Felix, his 1902 novel on the rising number of morphine addictions in Europe.

"Zerbrechliche Geschichten - Die Entwicklung der Keramik" stellt die vielfältigen und bedeutenden Keramiksammlungen der Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel erstmals in einem Band vor.

Das Buch beleuchtet die Facetten des ultimativen, von modischen Torheiten – scheinbar – verschonten Kleidungsensembles aus Rock, Weste, Hemd, Hose und Halsbinder.

 Während des Sowjetregimes versteckte der Künstler, Autor und Philosoph Vyacheslav Akhunov seine Notizbücher in Ställen und Scheunen, in Mauern und in Streichholzschachteln.

Originally published in 1847 this classic book contains a guide to drawing, aimed at both the amateur and professional.

Throughout the history of Byzantium 65 emperors were dethroned and only 39 reigns ended peacefully.

Throughout the history of Byzantium 65 emperors were dethroned and only 39 reigns ended peacefully.

A Missionary PilgrimageLike homesick travelers, many missionaries yearn for the trappings of their church culture back homeanything to feel comfortable.

Provides new perspectives on the increasingly complex relationships between media forms and formats, materiality, and meaning.

In 1963 a collection of fifty-seven silver vessels was discovered during illegal excavations by villagers in Antalya Province, Turkey.

This volume investigates the mechanisms (artworks, treatises, and other forms of cultural patronage) that the Marquises of Villena and their opponents used to operate in the cultural battlefield of the time with the aim of understanding how their conflicting historical memories were constructed and manipulated.

Embrace wonder and focus your heart amid the hustle and bustle of the holiday season.

 »Dichtung versetzt Sprache in einen Traumzustand, in dem sie sich der zudringlichen Realität meditierend vergewissert.

Based on an extensive and very meticulous study of different archives and the evaluation of original, previously unpublished, archival material, this book highlights the key aspects and trends of the European and American art markets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

 Der Quantenphysiker Anton Zeilinger ermöglicht in seinem Notebook Einblick in eine existenzielle Phase seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeit.

 Im Zeitlupentempo zoomt der Literat Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940-1975) in die Seitenstraße einer langen gepflasterten Straße, vor einen Hauseingang, unter eine Fensterbank, entlang der Topfpflanzen und schließlich hinein in eines der gelb leuchtenden Fensterrechtecke.

 Ist die Mittelschicht unsere neue revolutionäre Klasse?

 Anhand einer 3-D-Postkarte der Twin Towers von Joseph Beuys mit dem Titel Cosmos & Damian (1974) untersucht der Autor David Levi Strauss den Beuys'schen Prophetismus und die Maßnahmen seiner  » Kunst der Heilung«.

A celebrated young British artist uses her gift to convey the dignity and resilience of women survivors of violence in forgotten corners of the world.

Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795 brings to life women's unique and extravagant fashions of 1785-1795 in a beautifully illustrated and accessible way.

Drawing on original designer interviews, this book explores how design interventions can and do support sex and gender equity and what barriers still stand in the way.