In the first major book in four decades on Caterina Sforza, Joyce de Vries presents a comprehensive study of the famous Italian noblewoman's cultural endeavors. De Vries explores Sforza's patronage, collecting, and participation in ritual practices, the complex connections between prescriptive liter..
In the first major book in four decades on Caterina Sforza, Joyce de Vries presents a comprehensive study of the famous Italian noblewoman's cultural endeavors. De Vries explores Sforza's patronage, collecting, and participation in ritual practices, the complex connections between prescriptive liter..
This collection is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the changing modes of representation of nature in the city from the turn of the 1960s/70s through today...
Essays in this volume emphasize questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations, and provide an overview of current research on issues of circulation in relation to global art history and the globalization of art past and present. They offer a variety of approaches to the treatme..
Essays in this volume emphasize questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations, and provide an overview of current research on issues of circulation in relation to global art history and the globalization of art past and present. They offer a variety of approaches to the treatme..
Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France, c. 1700-1830 offers the first systematic reappraisal of the cultural representation of war in Britain and France during the 'long' eighteenth century. This radical collection of essays explores the relation of visual imagery and aest..
Highlighting an arts-based inquiry process that involves contemplation, mindfulness, and artful writing, this book explores women's difficult experiences in teaching. It weaves a strong autobiographical thread with artifacts from four long-term research projects with female teachers...
McBride provides new perspectives on the roles of the country house discourse she identifies, linking it with a number of larger historical shifts during the time period. Her interdisciplinary focus allows her to bring together a wide range of material - including architecture, poetry, oil painting,..
This book stems from a belief that the practice of print based graphic design can offer a great deal to cultural geographic practices and theories relating to the understanding and representation of place. By using print-based graphic design to extend existing qualitative methodologies, the author s..
An anthology of essays on different critical approaches and methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of American art and artists. The book contains 20 selections from academic journals on American art from colonial times to 1940...