Anne Gunnison, Kelly McHugh, David Joselit, Caroline Fowler, Ittai Weinryb, Kevin Beasley, Jennifer Gabrys, Elena Torok, Bess Williamson, Susan Heald...
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakamis extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public....Loe edasi...
The Element examines various facets of craftwork in small-scale societies in Central Europe during the Bronze Age. It explores communication and knowledge transfer within and beyond small groups, including standardization, personalization, imitation...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009611275)
The Element examines various facets of craftwork in small-scale societies in Central Europe during the Bronze Age. It explores communication and knowledge transfer within and beyond small groups, including standardization, personalization, imitation...Loe edasi...
Yasmin Arshad, Chris Laoutaris, Catherine Richardson, Evelyn Tribble, Helen Smith, Lena Cowen Orlin
Sari: Arden Studies in Early Modern Material Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Arden Shakespeare, ISBN-13: 9781350320703)
Were Renaissance women merely the silent subjects of the images of themselves they witnessed circulating in the visual cultures around them? Or did they have the opportunity to challenge these figurations? This collection of interdisciplinary essa...Loe edasi...
What do Persian robes of honour, 20th-century still-life painting, fur garments, and 18th-century porcelain all have in common? Prized, possessed and modelled, they highlight the deep connections we share with cultural objects. Esta...Loe edasi...
The New Dress Detective updates and expands this highly regarded practical guide to analysing fashion objects.Featuring seven completely new case studies – including an 18th-century gown, a mans 19th-century tailored jacket...Loe edasi...
The New Dress Detective updates and expands this highly regarded practical guide to analysing fashion objects.Featuring seven completely new case studies – including an 18th-century gown, a mans 19th-century tailored jacket...Loe edasi...
Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of Creolization in terms of duration, temporality, population, and importantly, in regional scope, which also impact climate and the practices of slavery th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691271675)
A richly illustrated investigation of how the adoption of canvas revolutionized Venetian Renaissance painting, from the Bellini and Titian to Veronese and TintorettoBetween the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries, European pai...Loe edasi...
As the Second World War raged in the Baltics, thousands of escape boats set course for Sweden. On board were not only refugees, but also suitcases and trunks packed with the things they could not bear to leave behind. And so photo albums, silver cut...Loe edasi...
A range of meaningful objectsexhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computersdemonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their life. The Sp...Loe edasi...
The first systematic history of craft from classical antiquity to today. Craft has a complex past. It is woven into the histories of materials, techniques and technologies, but also the histories of gender, class, politics, production,...Loe edasi...
Dressays is an anthology of thought-provoking essays exploring how clothing dress can reveal the complex, deeply felt bonds we have with ourselves, our communities and the worlds through which we move. These deeply personal narrative...Loe edasi...
An anthology of writing about the complex meanings of being dressed in the world that shows how clothing reveals the intricate bonds we have with our identities, our communities and the world around us. Dressays is an anthology...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111710181)
Roma Sinica. Mutual interactions between Ancient Roman and Eastern Thought is an original series in classical and comparative studies. Generously supported by the SIAC (International Society of Ciceros friends), it aims to publish works concerning t...Loe edasi...
Discover the poetics of salt, where art, memory, and migration transform our understanding of this everyday substance. While histories of salt have long emphasized its central role in trade, power, and capitalism, is that the only way...Loe edasi...
Discover the poetics of salt, where art, memory, and migration transform our understanding of this everyday substance. While histories of salt have long emphasized its central role in trade, power, and capitalism, is that the only way...Loe edasi...
A highly illustrated examination of the history of colour through its interrelation with dress in Europe in the period from 1400 to 1800....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487540661)
Tracing contemporary material culture back through the archaeological record demonstrates how the meanings of community belonging shift over time....Loe edasi...
Ballot chronicles the history of ballots used in American elections, their psychological, cultural, and political impact, and the post-2020 bills, laws, and policies that suppress the vote. Object Lessons is a series of short, beaut...Loe edasi...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as femininity itself. Who w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111548302)
How did Ottoman individuals and objects interact within the wider nineteenth-century world? The eleven essays from scholars in the field of art history, history, and archaeology delve into the Tour d’Europe of junior bureaucrats; the tran...Loe edasi...
Mollie Arbuthnot, Christianna Bonin, Gabriella Ferrari
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526182128)
Soviet materialities explores how material transforms our understanding of Soviet culture, from the textures of domestic space in 1960s apartment blocks to Gulag labour on the Moscow canal, and from avant-garde literary theory in the 1920s to concept...Loe edasi...
Sari: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781837653430)
The first broad and long study of a major aspect of British medieval art, examining the historical relationships between medieval drawings and books.The art of drawing and its products had a determining relationship to the visual a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198972969)
Body Size in Early Modern Germany shows that from the last decades of the 1400s, body size grew in significance throughout German culture, becoming a subject of medical, artistic, and spiritual concern, and informing the ways in which early...Loe edasi...
Through a series of case-studies of nine Aegean and Ionian islands, the contributors examine the ancient epigraphic culture of each islands political, social and religious history from the archaic age until late antiquity. These Mediterran...Loe edasi...
A history of the Japanese archipelago through its material artifacts over fifteen millennia. This compelling illustrated history in objects traces Japans complex past through its material culture. Over 350 artifacts—from the everyday to the...Loe edasi...
