Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
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The Late Byzantine period (1261-1453) is marked by a paradoxical discrepancy between economic...
Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680-850: A History
Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon
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Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 720 and...
Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis
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This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality...
Crazy Quilts: A Beginner's Guide
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Textile artist and instructor Betty Fikes Pillsbury has won hundreds of awards for her homages to...
Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life
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Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms...
Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality, and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy
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Focusing on the impact of the erotic revolution that swept through 16th-century Italy, Eros Visible...
Face: Shape and Angle: Helen Muspratt, Photographer
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Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member...
Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History: Volume 3: Degas
Daphne S Barbour, Suzanne Quillen Lomax and Barbara H Berrie
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This volume of Facture, a biennial journal that presents the latest conservation research on works...
From Point to Pixel: A Genealogy of Digital Aesthetics
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In this fiercely ambitious study, Meredith Anne Hoy seeks to reestablish the very definitions of...
Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from le Gray to Monet
Simon Kelly, April M. Watson, Neil McWilliam and Maura Coughlin
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Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished...