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Text, Image, and the Problem with Perfection in Nineteenth-Century France: Utopia and Its Afterlives

by Daniel Sipe

Daniel Sipe focuses on the persistent afterlife of utopias in works by artists and writers who include François-René de Chateaubriand, Etienne Cabet, J.J. Grandville, Charles Barbara, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam,...


Persistent Ruskin: Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect

by Keith Hanley & Brian Maidment

Examining the wide-ranging and abiding implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers into the present, this collection is organized around three related themes. This book studies...


Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity: Orthodox Theology and the Aesthetics of the Christian Image

by C.A. Tsakiridou

Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical, interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and philosophical studies of the Christian image and redefines this within the Orthodox tradition...


Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

by Michael Sorkin

Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never ignores his...


Ancient and Medieval Dyes

by William F. Leggett

This informative and easy-to-read classic text describes the various animal and vegetable dyes which were available before synthetic chemical dyes became available. Dyes noted in the book include madder, indigo,...


House: From Display to BACK to FRONT

by Fran Cottell & Katy Deepwell

An overview of a series of installations (2001-2011) made by artist Fran Cottell in her house.


Femininity in Asian Women Artists' Work from China, Korea and USA: If the Shoe Fits

by Patricia Karetzky

Patricia Karetzky discusses the metaphor of the shoe and how it is present in different women artists' work in China, Korea and USA


A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

by Michael Pollan

At a turning point in his life, writer Michael Pollan found himself dreaming of a small wood-frame hut in the woods near his house--a place to work, but also a "shelter for daydreams." Weaving the practical...


A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

by Babette Bohn & James M. Saslow

A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might...


Italian Renaissance Art: Understanding Its Meaning

by Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier

Richly illustrated, and featuring detailed descriptions of works by pivotal figures in the Italian Renaissance, this enlightening volume traces the development of art and architecture throughout the Italian...


The Tube: Station to Station on the London Underground

by Oliver Green

From Norman Foster’s remarkable station at Canary Wharf to the Yellow-brick vaults of Baker street to the Art Deco exuberance of Arnos Grove, London’s tube stations are among its most distinctive and iconic...


740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building

by Michael Gross

For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces,...


Chicago's Bridges

by Nathan Holth

Stretching more than 150 miles and cutting through the city that bears its name, the Chicago River divides the Second City into the North Side and the South Side. In 1832, the first bridge across the river was...


The Architecture of Control: A Contribution to the Critique of the Science of Apparatuses

by Grant Vetter

Grant Vetter develops an entirely new lexicon for analyzing architectural power in the twenty first century.


The Renaissance

by Walter Pater

Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. Included is his celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. This book concludes with...


Place Ville Marie: Montreal's Shining Landmark

by QA international Collectif

This book traces the fascinating history of what Montrealers still call the city’s “grande dame”. From the complex’s earliest beginnings with developer William Zeckendorf, through its later transformations,...


Resisting the Place of Belonging: Uncanny Homecomings in Religion, Narrative and the Arts

by Daniel Boscaljon

This book challenges our assumptions about the value of home, arguing for the ethical value of our feeling displaced and homeless in the 21st century. Home is explored in places ranging from digital keyboards...


The Guild and Guild Buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford: Society, Religion, School and Stage

by J.R. Mulryne

The guild buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of the town's civic life. With its multi-disciplinary perspectives...


The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective

by Jr., Samuel Y. Edgerton

A history of linear perspective. With illustrations and chronological outline. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title....


A Toronto Album 2: More Glimpses of the City That Was

by Mike Filey

A companion edition to A Toronto Album, this is a photographic journey through bustling Toronto from the late 1930s to the early 1970s.