How to Read African Textiles
ISBN: PB: 9781588397911,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
May 2025
168 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 125 colour illus.
168 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 125 colour illus.
Across the African continent, handwoven cloth and clothing have historically been labor-intensive creations deeply embedded in local and regional value systems. These fabrics could be endlessly adapted to communal and individual needs, variously serv...
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19.95 GBP
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Ancient Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: PB: 9781606069196,
Getty Publications,
April 2025
436 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 650 colour illus.
436 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 650 colour illus.
The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of ancient glass – astonishingly delicate, richly hued, and fancifully shaped-is among the most celebrated in the United States. With objects ranging from the Bronze Age to the medieval period (1500 BCE - 1000 CE...
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95.00 GBP
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Ornamental Blackness
The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts
ISBN: HB: 9780300246094,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
208 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 98 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
208 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 98 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
Exploring the role the decorative arts played in the representation of Black people in European visual and material culture.
This revelatory look at European decorative arts addresses the long-ignored implications of the depiction of Black bodies o...
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50.00 GBP
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Empire's New Cloth
Cross-Cultural Textiles at the Qing Court
ISBN: HB: 9780300275148,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
208 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 117 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.
208 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 117 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.
A groundbreaking study of textiles as transcultural objects in the Qing court that provides a new understanding of the interconnectedness of the early modern world.
In the early modern period luxury textiles circulated globally as trade goods and d...
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60.00 GBP
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Monstrous Beauty
A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie
ISBN: PB: 9781588397928,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
March 2025
256 pp., 26,7x20,3 cm, 200 colour illus.
256 pp., 26,7x20,3 cm, 200 colour illus.
Curiosity and critique foreground this novel history of porcelain that unravels the cultural myths of Chinoiserie, Europe's fantasy of the East.
"Monstrous Beauty" presents a bold cross-cultural history of porcelain told through a feminist lens. Th...
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25.00 GBP
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Recasting the Past
The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900
ISBN: HB: 9781588397904,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
March 2025
320 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 300 colour illus.
320 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 300 colour illus.
A reappraisal of the often-overlooked Chinese bronzes made from the twelfth through nineteenth centuries, demonstrating their profound impact on Chinese art and culture.
Bronze vessels were the ultimate emblems of power in ancient China. Beginning...
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50.00 GBP
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Celadon on the Seas
Chinese Ceramics from the 9th to the 14th Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300278910,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
120 pp., 24,7x20,9 cm, 150 colour illus.
120 pp., 24,7x20,9 cm, 150 colour illus.
An exploration of southern China's ceramic industry and its links to Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, and beyond via the maritime trade.
Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, "Celadon on the Seas" explores the development of the southern Chi...
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20.00 GBP
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Vetripedia: Masterpieces of Venetian Glass
Three Volumes in a Slipcase
ISBN: SET: 9783791377391,
Prestel Publishing,
January 2025
1712 pp., 32,0x30,0 cm, 3285 colour illus.
1712 pp., 32,0x30,0 cm, 3285 colour illus.
This magnificent and unprecedented three-volume set showcases one of the world's most important collections of twentieth-century Venetian glass – 1.000 masterpieces marvelously photographed and cataloged by a renowned expert in the field.
Celebrated...
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400.00 GBP
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Ancient Thrace and the Classical World
Treasures from Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece
ISBN: HB: 9781606069400,
Getty Publications,
November 2024
408 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 310 colour illus.
408 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 310 colour illus.
The Thracians – a collection of tribal peoples who inhabited territories north of ancient Greece, an area that comprises present-day Bulgaria, much of Romania, and parts of Greece and Turkey-were renowned for their skill as warriors and horsemen, as...
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55.00 GBP
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Naseby Cup
Coins and Medals of the English Civil War
ISBN: PB: 9780300275865,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
144 pp., 24,8x21,0 cm, 185 colour illus.
144 pp., 24,8x21,0 cm, 185 colour illus.
A detailed presentation of the iconic Naseby Cup that illuminates the Victorian vessel's extraordinary numismatic importance and contextualizes the circumstances surrounding its creation.
One of the most exceptional numismatic objects in the world,...
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20.00 GBP
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