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A Manual of Mending and RepairingWith Diagrams
A Manual of Mending and Repairing With Diagrams is a comprehensive and practical guide designed to empower readers with the essential skills needed to restore and prolong the life of everyday household items. Authored by Charles Godfrey Leland, this manual delves into the art and science of mending, offering clear, step-by-step instructions accompanied by helpful diagrams to illustrate key tech…
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The Art of GrainingHow Acquired and How Produced.With the description of colo…
The Art of Graining: How Acquired and How Produced is a comprehensive manual dedicated to the traditional craft of imitating wood and marble surfaces through the art of graining. This detailed guide, originally published in the 19th century, serves as both an instructional resource and a historical document, capturing the techniques, materials, and artistic sensibilities of its era. The book me…
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Donna Arte SocietàPratiche estetiche femministe dalla metà dell'Ottocento a…
Il volume raccoglie i contributi presentati al convegno internazionale Donna Arte Società. Pratiche estetiche femministe dalla metà dell'Ottocento a oggi (Varese, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Villa Toeplitz, 7-8 marzo 2024), organizzato in chiusura della mostra Il Gruppo "Immagine". Una storia di artivismo femminista da Varese alla Biennale di Venezia (Varese, Università degli Stud…
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Antonio Gramsci. Escritos sobre arte
Cada persona que intenta comprender el mundo actual puede encontrar en Antonio Gramsci reflexiones útiles y adaptables a su propio tiempo y a sus circunstancias; sin embargo, para quien se adentra en su estudio –en especial en cuestiones de arte y literatura–, sus artículos periodísticos y los 'Cuadernos de la cárcel', que conforman el núcleo de su obra, redactados sin recursos de inve…
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Useful ArtHow activist artists can change the world
This smart, provocative book reveals how Useful Art is changing the world. Does art have to be beautiful? What if it can be useful instead? In this cutting-edge book, John Byrne shows how the concept of 'Useful Art' is helping artists and communities fight back against the neoliberal takeover of our spaces, services and lives. Byrne demonstrates that networks of artist-led activism and commun…
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A Companion to French Art
A comprehensive exploration of the evolutions, innovations, and legacies of French art from the late eighteenth-century to the present Charting the artistic eras from the transformative upheavals of the French Revolution to the dynamic global intersections of contemporary art in the 21st century, A Companion to French Art, 1789 to the Present provides an unparalleled analysis of French art. Ed…
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The Bucolic Mode in Byzantine ArtSound, Weather, Imperium
Bucolic imagery—of shepherds with flocks in idyllic surroundings—has barely been studied in Byzantine art history. These images elude our usual analytical categories of imperial, sacred, and secular art, and challenge our assumptions about visual narrative. This book demonstrates that a "bucolic mode" existed in Byzantium in diverse media, such as textiles, sculpture, mosaics, silver, and m…
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Animism, Materiality, and MuseumsHow Do Byzantine Things Feel?
Byzantine art is normally explained as devotional, historical, highly intellectualized, but this book argues for an experiential necessity for a fuller, deeper, more ethical approach to this art. Written in response to an exhibition the author curated at The Menil Collection in 2013, this monograph challenges us to search for novel ways to explore and interrogate the art of this distant culture…
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The Social Lives of Medieval Rings
The essays in this volume focus on rings as small objects that have touched upon people, places, and events; rings have also featured in scholastic debates and form our modern museum collections. Contributors collectively argue that a closer look at these diminutive artifacts—both precious and mundane—alongside an assessment of their place within the visual, archaeological, and written reco…
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The Political Message of the Shrine of St. Heribert of CologneChurch and Empi…
This is the first ever book in English solely devoted to one of the most important reliquary shrines of the Mosan Rhineland, the Heribert Shrine. Carolyn M. Carty investigates how liturgy, history, politics, and geography all converge to influence the creation and the message of a work of art in the aftermath of the Investiture Controversy between the Church and the Holy Roman Empire. She argue…
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