Early Modern Merchants as Collectors
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Early Modern Merchants as Collectors encourages the rethinking of collecting not as an elite, often...
Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art
Reimar Schefold and Steven G. Alpert
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Lavish photography and groundbreaking new texts unlock the magic of the island cultures of...
History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism
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In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of "unofficial" artists in Moscow -- artists not recognized by the...
Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago
Richard F. Townsend and Elizabeth Pope
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A stunning survey of the indigenous art, architecture, and spiritual beliefs of the Americas, from...
Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal of 1543
Werner Dressendorfer and Leonhart Fuchs
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Potent plants: Mother Nature s medicine cabinetLeonhart Fuchs (1501 1566, ) was a founding father of...
Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist
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The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961), this volume...
On Collecting: No. 4
Norwegian Crafts and Andre Gali
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Art collectors and their collections make up an important part of the contemporary arts and crafts...
Postcolonising the Medieval Image
Eva Frojmovic and Catherine E. Karkov
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Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three...
Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity
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Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity is a richly illustrated volume relating a series of...
Scribbling Through History: Graffiti, Places and People from Antiquity to Modernity
Omur Harmansah, Elizabeth Frood, Chloe Ragazzoli and Chiara Salvador
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For most people the mention of graffiti conjures up notions of subversion, defacement, and...