Arts, Architecture & Design Books

This latest volume of the Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts explores the role of design and decorative arts in the making of modern Turkey, from the late Ottoman Empire to the middle of the twentieth century.As in many countries outside of...

With meticulous research and carefully chosen illustrations, Phoebe Stanton here explores the influence of the English Gothic revival on American church architecture in the mid-nineteenth century, arguing that this fundamentally conservative movement...

Examines the creation in 1483 of the first illustrated travelogue, Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (Journey to the Holy Land), by Bernhard von Breydenbach and his artist, Erhard Reuwich of Utrecht. Focuses on the early use of the print medium to influence...

An analytical history of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, and Early Abbasid mosaics in the Holy Land from the second century B.C.E to eighth century C.E.

An interpretive study of the pictorial program of the Ottonian Bernward Gospels. Examines how the manuscript conditioned contemporary and future viewers to remember early medieval Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim.

Gathers historians, philosophers, critics, curators, and artists to explore the divisions in teaching, practice, and theorization of art created by the choice between continuations of Modernism, with its aesthetic values, and the many kinds of...

This Mexico-themed issue of The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts opens up new perspectives in the field of twentieth-century Mexican art and visual culture. It brings together research on a wide array of understudied developments in...

Drawing Degree Zero examines a pivotal moment in the history of drawing, when the medium was disengaged from its connoisseurial associations and positioned at the forefront of contemporary art. From Mel Bochner's seminal exhibition Working Drawings and...

What is it about puzzles that drives us to figure them out? In this unique and innovative book, Bret L. Rothstein explores how mechanical problems delight and frustrate us, distracting our attention from recognizably “useful activities and directing it...

This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his starting point, Sam Rose rethinks how ideas about form influenced modernist culture and the movement's...

Introduces and interprets the complex history of German chinoiserie in the long eighteenth century, focusing on its emergence in literature and the arts.

In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range of texts on the fringes of popular culture, from adult animated...

Examines case studies of popular culture as pessimistic rhetorical artifacts, and how non-traditional modes of argumentation can work rhetorically to overcome biases against pessimistic messaging.

Politically and militarily powerful, early modern Scandinavia played an essential role in the development of Central European culture from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In this volume, Kristoffer Neville shows how the cultural ambitions of...

Djuna Barnes once said that “there is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole object, and the statement is provocative when considering her own writing and art. Arriving as an accomplished writer and journalist in 1920s Paris, Barnes...

A step-by-step guide to more synthetic, holistic, and integrated urban design strategies, Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities is a practical manual to accomplish complex community design decisions and create more green, clean, and equitable...

A step-by-step guide to more synthetic, holistic, and integrated urban design strategies, Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities is a practical manual to accomplish complex community design decisions and create more green, clean, and equitable...

The houses we dwell in, the cities surrounding our houses, even the clothes we wear'these are all shelters we erect against the elements. They are also the embodiment of intuitive rituals, individual and cultural responses to nature's rhythms. Life in...

As part of the feminist movement of the 1970s, female artists began consciously using their works to challenge social conceptions and the legal definitions of rape and incest and to shift the dominant narrative of violence against women. In this dynamic...

Considers the development of the pastoral in sixteenth-century Venice as an urban phenomenon specific to the lagoon. Studies Venetian urban gardens as actual places, imaginary spaces, and fantasies of urban planning challenged by ecological concerns.

A collection of essays examining how patterns of use and attitudes to green spaces within William Penn’s Philadelphia city plan and along the Schuylkill River informed notions of place, from the city's founding to the formation of the Fairmount...

A collection of essays exploring musical sounds and worship practices within Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity. Combines ethnographic case studies with theoretical reflection informed by social science, musicological, religious studies, and...

This volume makes accessible for the first time in English Wackenroder’s Herzensergiessungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders (1787). One of the most important documents of early German Romanticism, the Confessions from the Heart of an...

A collection of essays exploring musical sounds and worship practices within Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity. Combines ethnographic case studies with theoretical reflection informed by social science, musicological, religious studies, and...

A history of the Spanish Gothic cathedral of Toledo. Balances architectural history with close scrutiny of the cathedral's liturgy and cults, the sculpture on its portals and choir enclosure, its royal tombs, and its diverse treasury and textiles.

A history of the Spanish Gothic cathedral of Toledo. Balances architectural history with close scrutiny of the cathedral's liturgy and cults, the sculpture on its portals and choir enclosure, its royal tombs, and its diverse treasury and textiles.

Raphael's Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphael's painting—the ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Una Roman D'Elia traces the cultural and artistic history of the ostrich...

To build a sustainable career in today's music industry, you need more than talent and passion - you need a plan. Make Music Your Business is a clear, no-nonsense roadmap for artists and music professionals who want to break through, stand out and...

A translation of Polish politician and architect Ignacy Potocki's unpublished treatise Remarks on Architecture. Includes an introduction that places Potocki and the treatise within the political, social, and cultural context of eighteenth-century Poland.

A translation of Polish politician and architect Ignacy Potocki's unpublished treatise Remarks on Architecture. Includes an introduction that places Potocki and the treatise within the political, social, and cultural context of eighteenth-century Poland.

Whether in Kraftwerk or as an acclaimed solo artist, Karl Bartos has had an extraordinary impact on electronic music. In The Sound of the Machine, Bartos' recollections include his childhood in postwar Germany, the early musical encounters that led him...

First published in 1992, this authorised Queen biography drew on exclusive interviews with the bandmembers, exploring every aspect of the group's career up to that point. Revised under the guidance of Brian May and Roger Taylor and including plenty of...

Whether in Kraftwerk or as an acclaimed solo artist, Karl Bartos has had an extraordinary impact on electronic music. In The Sound of the Machine, Bartos' recollections include his childhood in postwar Germany, the early musical encounters that led him...

First published in 1992, this authorised Queen biography drew on exclusive interviews with the bandmembers, exploring every aspect of the group's career up to that point. Revised under the guidance of Brian May and Roger Taylor and including plenty of...

Examines the twentieth-century French publishing project on Romanesque art and architecture by Éditions Zodiaque from the abbey of La Pierre-qui-Vire.

Investigates the major paintings and sculpture produced for the church of Ognissanti (All Saints) in Florence between about 1300 and 1500 under the artistic patronage of the religious order of the Humiliati.

Winner of the 2016 Book Award, post-1800 category, from the Historians of British Art.How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with...

One of Britains best-loved and most successful fanzines, Jamming! documented the musical landscape as it evolved between 1977 and 1986. Fully illustrated throughout, The Best of Jamming! includes numerous stand-out pieces from the zines impressive 36...

Covering nearly 40 years of his career as arguably the UK's leading music writer this collection pulls together the best pieces about the music he's loved the most - the singers and players whose records have shaped him, and who he's returned to, time...

In 2011, Janet Devlin wowed X-Factor judges and charmed the nation with her unique vocals and performances. She consistently received the highest consecutive public vote out of all the contestants and gained a place on the live arena tour. But rather...

At the start of 1963, The Beatles were a successful local Liverpool band with one hit single; twelve months, two albums and the arrival of Beatlemania later, they were on the cusp of world domination. Featuring daily entries covering every pivotal event,...

Examines how photographic trickery in the 1850s and 1860s participated in the fashioning of the modern subject. Integrates images of the Victorian period into a new and expansive interpretive framework by locating specific mechanisms of photographic...

Picking up where the critically acclaimed Salad Daze left off, Heady Daze sees Wayne Hussey revisit the years from 1985 to 1990 leading The Mission through their formation to global success. From headlining some of Europe's major festivals, playing with...

Let There Be Rock is the definitive story of AC/DC’s rise to the pinnacle of rock ‘n’ roll’s stratosphere. Learn how this group of Australian mates became one of the few truly legendary rock and roll bands in history. Author Susan Masino traces the...

The provincial North Macedonian town of Veles placed itself on the world map as an epicentre for fake news production during the US presidential election of 2016. Tech-savvy local youth created hundreds of clickbait websites posing as American political...

John Davies began photographing both the rural and urban landscape in the 1970s and this book brings together his early images alongside new contemporary works evisiting the same landscapes - mapping both equilibrium and change. These pairs of images are...

The Architecture of Change is a collection of articles that demonstrates the power of the human spirit to transform the environments in which we live. This inspiring book profiles people who refused to accept that things couldn't change, who saw the...

Matthew Smith (1879-1959) is one of the most important British painters of the twentieth century. He trained at the Slade School before moving to France in 1908 where he attended the Atelier Matisse. He spent much of his time working in France between...