The Art and Mystery of Curing, Preserving, and Potting All Kinds of Meats, Game, and Fish is a comprehensive 18th-century manual dedicated to the traditional culinary arts of food preservation. This detailed guide offers readers a fascinating glimpse into historical methods for extending the shelf life and enhancing the flavors of various meats, game, and fish, long before the advent of modern …
What does it mean to be a woman artist – or a feminist artist – in China today? Analyzing how Chinese women artists have reinvented traditional forms of ink and brush painting, Invisible Ink shows how the use of ink in their work becomes a tool of gender and art historical subversion in contemporary Chinese art. The book explores how the work of Bingyi, Ma Yanling, Tao Aimin, Xiao Lu and X…
The Century Cook Book, authored by Mary Ronald and first published in 1895, stands as a comprehensive culinary guide reflecting the domestic ideals and culinary practices of late 19th-century America. This extensive volume offers over a thousand recipes, meticulously organized to cover every aspect of meal preparation, from simple family dinners to elaborate formal banquets. The book is notable…
1566 wurden zahlreiche Kirchen in den Niederlanden gestürmt, Gemälde, Statuen und liturgisches Gerät zerstört bzw. aus Kirchenräumen entfernt. Der Bildersturm wurde für etwa 250 Jahre in unterschiedlichen Medien wie Flugblättern, Ölgemälden, Medaillen, Anhängern und Buchillustrationen dargestellt. Dadurch blieb die Erinnerung an das Ereignis lebendig. Welche Gründe hatte die anhalten…
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, authored by Fannie Merritt Farmer and first published in 1896, is a landmark culinary guide that has profoundly influenced American home cooking for over a century. This comprehensive volume, often simply called the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, was designed to bring scientific precision and standardized measurements to the art of cooking, making it accessible to …
Der Band untersucht Skalierungsverfahren als Kulturtechnik, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf dem Vermessen, Abtasten, der Transformation und Projektion von Objekten in Zeit und Raum liegt. Aus kunsthistorischer, bild- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive werden die komplexen Wechselverhältnisse zwischen Zwei- und Dreidimensionalität erforscht. Der Fokus richtet sich auf Fotografie und die (digit…
Frye's Practical Candy Maker: Comprising Practical Receipts for the Manufacture of Fine Hand-Made Candies is a comprehensive and invaluable guide for both amateur and professional confectioners, first published in the late 19th century. Authored by F. W. Frye, this classic manual offers a detailed and accessible approach to the art and science of candy making, reflecting the techniques and trad…
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) remains best known for his influential cinematic and literary works. These attest in turn to a crucial early formation: Pasolini's intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume's chapters reflect the breadth of Pasolini's aesthetic commitments and predilections, from…
The Candy Maker's Guide: A Collection of Choice Recipes for Sugar Boiling is a comprehensive and delightful manual for both amateur and professional confectioners, originally published in the late 19th century. This classic guide offers an extensive array of recipes and techniques for creating a wide variety of candies, sweets, and confections, making it an invaluable resource for anyone intere…
Counter-realism: Art and subjectivity in contemporary capitalism is an ambitious and original study of key works of film and video art made since 2008 by leading contemporary artists, including William Kentridge, Amalia Ulman, Melanie Gilligan, Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin and Elizabeth Price. It argues their work should be understood as a reconfigured form of 'realism', expressing economic forc…