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Cover of Kay Bea Jones & Stephanie Pilat: Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture

Kay Bea Jones & Stephanie Pilat: Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture

Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars. Mussolini s government …

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Mak (Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong) Kin-wah: Advances in Techno-Humanities

This book is a pioneering attempt to explore the relationships between technology and the humanities through case studies and specific contexts in the areas of language, theatre, literature, …

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Clive (Loughborough University, UK) Edwards: Nineteenth-Century Interiors

This volume of primary source materials documents the essential practical aspects of making a home, decorating it and then furnishing it. The crucial constitutive parts that make up an interior from …

Cover of Tatiana (Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, USA) Flores & Florencia (Lehigh University, USA) San Martin: Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History

Tatiana (Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, USA) Flores & Florencia (Lehigh University, USA) San Martin: Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History

This companion is the first global, comprehensive text to explicate, theorize, and propose decolonial methodologies for art historians, museum professionals, artists, and other visual culture …

Cover of Arisa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Yamaguchi: Sartorial Japonisme and the Experience of Kimonos in Britain, 1865-1914

Arisa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Yamaguchi: Sartorial Japonisme and the Experience of Kimonos in Britain, 1865-1914

Using interdisciplinary research and critical analysis, this book examines experiences through (or with) kimonos in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Bringing new perspectives …

Cover of Maria Teresa (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.) Chicote Pompanin: Art Patronage and Conflicting Memories in Early Modern Iberia

Maria Teresa (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.) Chicote Pompanin: Art Patronage and Conflicting Memories in Early Modern Iberia

This volume investigates the mechanisms (artworks, treatises, and other forms of cultural patronage) that the Marquises of Villena and their opponents used to operate in the cultural battlefield of …

Cover of Mark D. Ellison: Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity

Mark D. Ellison: Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity

This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images, reading them as visual rhetoric in early Christian conversations about marriage and celibacy, and …

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Francesca Lembo Fazio & Valentina Tomassetti: Emotions and Architecture

Emotions and Architecture: Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time explores architecture as a medium to arouse or conceal emotions, to build consensus through …

Cover of Xavier (University of Warwick, UK) Buxton & Emily (University of Oxford, UK) Clifford: Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens

Xavier (University of Warwick, UK) Buxton & Emily (University of Oxford, UK) Clifford: Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens

This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp justice or war or death , when they dreamt or deliberated, how did …

Cover of Michelle Langley & Mirani (The Australian National University) Litster: The Archaeology of Portable Art

Michelle Langley & Mirani (The Australian National University) Litster: The Archaeology of Portable Art

The development of complex cultural behaviour in our own species is perhaps the most significant research issue in modern archaeology. Until recently, it was believed that our capacity for language a …