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
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Julian Stair
Memory, Material, Ceramics
ISBN: HB: 9780300278071,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
318 pp., 28,0x22,5 cm, 250 colour illus.
318 pp., 28,0x22,5 cm, 250 colour illus.
The first comprehensive account of the pioneering ceramic work of Julian Stair.
Julian Stair (b. 1955) is one of the UK's leading ceramic artists, with a prolific career spanning five decades. Exploring an extensive range of work in different mater...
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£40.00
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Novels, Needleworks, and Empire
Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300270785,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
312 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 38 black&white illus.
312 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 38 black&white illus.
The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism.
In the eighteenth century, women's contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were recorded i...
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£50.00
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Picture Worlds
Storytelling on Greek, Moche, and Maya Pottery
ISBN: PB: 9781606069059,
Getty Publications,
April 2024
208 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 113 colour illus.
208 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 113 colour illus.
This abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures side by side.
Satyrs and sphinxes, violent legumes, and a dancing maize deity figure in the stories painted on the pottery...
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£35.00
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Mingei
Art Without Heroes
ISBN: HB: 9780300274288,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
168 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 121 colour illus.
168 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 121 colour illus.
An exploration of the evolution of the Japanese Mingei (folk art) movement within the context of today's concerns.
Originating in Japan in the 1920s, the Mingei movement was based on the principle that beauty is inherent in handmade, everyday objec...
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Artists' Things
Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France
ISBN: PB: 9781606068632,
Getty Publications,
January 2024
374 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 140 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
374 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 140 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Artists are makers of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday items they own. This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing...
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£50.00
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Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World
ISBN: PB: 9781606068427,
Getty Publications,
January 2024
296 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 56 colour illus., 54 black&white illus., 1 map
296 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 56 colour illus., 54 black&white illus., 1 map
With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals, Iranian visual and political cultures connected an ev...
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£55.00
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David Rittenhouse
Philosopher-Mechanick of Colonial Philadelphia and His Famous Clocks
ISBN: HB: 9780300272956,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
272 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 365 colour illus.
272 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 365 colour illus.
A lush and in-depth celebration of the clocks of David Rittenhouse, one of eighteenth-century America's greatest scientists and engineers
"David Rittenhouse: Philosopher-Mechanick of Colonial Philadelphia and His Famous Clocks" brings a completely...
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£60.00
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Throne of the Great Mogul in Dresden
The Ultimate Artwork of the Baroque
ISBN: HB: 9780300251937,
Yale University Press,
June 2023
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 48 colour illus., 28 black&white illus.
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 48 colour illus., 28 black&white illus.
A masterful deciphering of an extraordinary art object, illuminating some of the biggest questions of the eighteenth century.
The Throne of the Great Mogul (1701-1708) is a unique work of European decorative art: an intricate miniature of the court...
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£30.00
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William Burges's Great Bookcase and The Victorian Colour Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300267976,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
240 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 227 colour and black&white illus.
240 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 227 colour and black&white illus.
Charlotte Ribeyrol presents a fascinating (book)case study exploring the story of an extraordinary object, William Burges's (1827-1881) Great Bookcase. No fewer than 13 major artists, including Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, and Albert Moore, to...
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