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The Liberty Bell
Shell Education 2006; US$ 6.99In The Liberty Bell: Saving the Sound of Freedom, the Mickley family realizes that they might be the only ones that can save the important Old State House Bell as they run from the British. Though they risk their lives and must leave most of their belongings behind, they know that they have an important job to do. Based on actual events, this script... more...
Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Combining primary archival research, contextual analysis of the climate of female mysticism, and a re-examination of a number of visual objects, this study sheds new light on the social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female mystics of Mantua in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It offers new insight into a complex world... more...
Replacing Home
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 75.00From property deeds to shipping containers to wearable shelters to virtual spaces: what does it mean to draw a spatial boundary? To be at home? In a world in which notions of place are constantly changing, Jennifer Johung looks at new constructions of staying in placein contemporary site-specific art, digital media, portable architecture, and... more...
Slaves Waiting for Sale
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 25.00In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culminating painting, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia . This innovative book uses Crowe’s... more...
Insect and the Image
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 83.00Once considered marginal members of the animal world (at best) or vile and offensive creatures (at worst), insects saw a remarkable uptick in their status during the early Renaissance. This quickened interest was primarily manifested in visual imagesin illuminated manuscripts, still life paintings, the decorative arts, embroidery, textile design,... more...
Art of the Devil
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95?The Devil holds the strings which move us!? (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857.) Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer? the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always served artists as a source of inspiration. Often commissioned by religious leaders as images of fear or veneration, depending on the society, representations of the underworld... more...
L?Art du Diable
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95« C?est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous remuent ! » (Charles Beaudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal, 1857) Satan, Belzébuth, Lucifer? Le Diable possède de multiples noms et visages qui, toujours, furent une grande source d?inspiration pour les artistes. Longtemps commanditées par les instances religieuses, pour en faire, selon les civilisations, un objet... more...
Satan, Beelzebub, Luzifer - Der Teufel in der Kunst
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95?Der Teufel hält die Fäden, die uns bewegen!? (Charles Baudelaire, Die Blumen des Bösen, 1857.) Satan, Beelzebub, Luzifer? der Teufel hat viele Namen und Gesichter; sie alle haben Künstlern stets als Inspirationsquelle gedient. Bilder von Teufeln wurden oftmals von kirchlichen Personen von hohem Rang in Auftrag gegeben, um, je nach Gesellschaft, mit... more...
Past is the Present, It's the Future Too
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 39.99The term temporality often refers to the traditional mode of the way time is: a linear procession of past, present and future. As philosophers will note, this is not always the case. Christine Ross builds on current philosophical and theoretical examinations of time and applies them to the field of contemporary art: films, video installations, sculpture... more...
Art as Spiritual Perception
Crossway 2012; US$ 27.99A reader covering everything from sixth-century icons to contemporary art, this compilation offers a critical investigation of art history from a Christian perspective. more...









