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Highlights the diversity, originality and ubiquity of sculptural production during the reign of Queen Victoria. This illustrated book examines how colourful marbles, bronzes, finely wrought silver, and exquisitely detailed electrotypes, as well as gems, cameos and porcelain, related to and contributed to the contemporary world.

Based on research at Harvard Forest, this book describes the natural and human-induced changes in the land and environment of New England over the past one thousand years.

An exploration of the intricacies of narrative theory. Considering a range of texts from Western literature over the past two centuries, Miller explores the way rhetorical devices and figurative language interrupt, break into, delay and expand storytelling.

Recognized as a model for video-based foreign-language instructional materials, this title includes new illustrations throughout and more relevant information for students in the Documents sections of each lesson.

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Off the Wall: American Art to Wear, November 8, 2019-May 17, 2020, Philadelphia Museum of Art."

"A revised and expanded edition of Williamsburg before and after" -- Title page.

The first comprehensive account in English of Renaissance Spain's preeminent sculptor

An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R.

An intimate reflection on culture and tradition, creativity and power, that draws on a lifetime's commitment to aesthetic encounter

"Becoming America offers a multifaceted view of one of the foremost collections of 18th- and 19th-century American folk and decorative art from the rural Northeast. Essays by leading specialists discuss the culture of furniture workshops, exuberant painted decoration, techniques of sewing and quilting, and poignant stories about the families depicted in the portraits. The collection itself includes Shaker boxes, a beaded Iroquois hat, embroidered samplers, metalwork, scrimshaw, handwoven rugs, ceramics, and a weather vane. The majority of these works have never before been published. With lively essays and profuse illustrations, this handsome volume brings to life the aesthetic of early Americans living in the countryside and is an essential exploration of the period's taste and style"--

A wide-ranging study of Louisiana landscape painting that places art from the region into a broader national and global context

Insightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it

A celebration of the stunning collection of artworks donated in honor of the creation of The Menil Drawing Institute

A detailed look at a genre that combines virtuoso printmaking techniques, sophisticated imagery, and engaging, playful poetry

Catalog of an exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 25, 2019-January 12, 2020.

An aesthetic and social history of art and dance in mid-20th-century New York interpreted by contemporary artist Nick Mauss

The recent work of Belgian abstract artist Yves Zurstrassen is explored in depth in this handsome volume, designed in close collaboration with the artist himself

The story of India's exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world

A comprehensive look at an important member of the artistic vanguard of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe

A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold rush through the lens of the daguerreotype camera

A sweeping history of Los Angeles told through the lens of the many marginalized groups--from hobos to taggers--that have used the city's walls as a channel for communication

A radically new cosmological view from a groundbreaking neuroscientist placing the human brain at the center of humanity's universe

An award-winning historian presents an emotional history of Jewish refugees biding their time in Portugal as they attempt to escape Nazi Europe

A powerful account of how the complex mercantile and military relationships between the British, Dutch, and American territories made the Industrial Revolution possible. Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part of the world. At its core the Anglo-Dutch relationship intertwined close alliance and fierce antagonism to intense creative effect. But a precondition for the Industrial Revolution was also the establishment in British North America of a unique type of colony-for the settlement of people and culture, rather than the extraction of commodities. England's republican revolution of 1649-53 was a spectacular attempt to change social, political, and moral life in the direction pioneered by the Dutch. In this powerfully written account, Jonathan Scott argues that it was also a turning point in world history. In its wake, competition with the Dutch transformed the military-fiscal and naval resources of the British state. Within the resulting navy-protected Anglo-American trading monopoly, the demographic and commercial vibrancy of British North America played a crucial role in triggering the Industrial Revolution.

A groundbreaking study of the role of Muslims in eighteenth-century France