Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476
Sonja Drimmer
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812224849
Pub Date: June 2021
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
Featuring more than one hundred illustrations, 27 of them in color, The Art of Allusion amply exhibits the critical role book artists played in the formation of the English literary canon.
A sweeping assessment of the entire career of Frank Furness that features more than one hundred illustrations, George E. Thomas's book argues that modern American architecture, in design and genealogy, is rooted in the industrial culture of Philadelphia and the office of Frank Furness.
Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Shira Brisman and Eric Jorink
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781734733808
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
60 Pages
The exhibition An Inner World features exceptional paintings by seventeenth-century Dutch artists working in or near the city of Leiden. In this heavily illustrated catalog, essays illuminate the exhibition's themes and shed new light on the fijnschilders, or fine painters, of Leiden.
Located in Western Australia, the massive archaeological site of Murujuga has been subject to decades of abuse from regional mining interests. José Antonio González Zarandona traces Murujuga's destruction from the seventeenth century until today, arguing that colonial interference in the region has resulted in landscape iconoclasm.
Edited by Mary Corbin Sies, Isabelle Gournay and Robert Freestone
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9780812251142
Pub Date: August 2019
Format: Hardcover
544 Pages
Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change shows how the resilience of iconic planned communities, from New Lanark to Seaside, depends upon diverse approaches to sustaining their visionary spirit and features while adapting them to the needs of later generations.
Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Liz Bellamy
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812250831
Pub Date: March 2019
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Examining the intersection of literary tradition and horticultural innovation, The Language of Fruit traces how writers from Andrew Marvell to Jane Austen responded to the challenges posed by the evolving social, economic, and symbolic functions of fruit over the long eighteenth century.
Featuring more than 150 illustrations, many in color, The Invention of Rivers integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted special roles in defining human habitation and everyday practice.
In Spaces in Translation, Christian Tagsold explores Japanese gardens in the West and ponders their history, the reasons for their popularity, and their connections to geopolitical events. He concludes that a process of cultural translation between Japanese and Western experts created an idea of the Orient and its distinction from the West.
