In Proust’s Songbook, Jennifer Rushworth analyzes and theorizes the presence and role of songs in Marcel Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Instead of focusing...
George R. Anthonisen: Meditations on the Human Condition is a comprehensive volume documenting the arc of Anthonisen’s artistic career spanning 65 years as a figurative sculptor. Well versed in...
Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America
Jennifer M. Black
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512825008
Pub Date: December 2023
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
In the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds thrived. Appearances could be deceiving, and entrepreneurs...
In 1921, New York newspapers declared artist Ethel Wallace (1886-1968) a pioneer a batik portraits, the “newest rage in art,” and Vogue Paris described her portraits as “personal and original”...
In 2009, Gregory McCoy, a noted New Jersey Andy Warhol Collector discovered while searching online, four remarkable and unknown silk screen prints of Marilyn Monroe, what struck McCoy immediately...
Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part of the city’s program of adaptive reuse of industrial...
Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication,...
Edited by Lynn Marsden-Atlass and André Dombrowski
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781734733846
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
130 Pages
In 2016, a landscape painting of the source of the Lison river in France was discovered at the University of Pennsylvania and was immediately suspected of being the work of Gustave Courbet. A lengthy...
In Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century, Margot E. Fassler takes readers into the rich, complex world of Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias (meaning “Know the ways”) to explore how...
