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The Image of Celestina
Illustrations, Paintings, and Advertisements
Price:
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487549787
Pub Date: December 2023
This book examines imagery of the eponymous character from La Celestina from the early sixteenth century until today.
The Crimean War and Cultural Memory
The War France Won and Forgot
Price:
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487547776
Pub Date: November 2023
Exploring the Crimean War through literature, theatre, spectacle, and visual arts, this book reveals how and why a major war was forgotten.
The Arts of Encounter
Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487556457
Pub Date: May 2023
The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain.
Extraordinary Aesthetes
Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
Price:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487546083
Pub Date: April 2023
Extraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.
The Art of Witnessing
Francisco de Goya’s Disasters of War
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487545277
Pub Date: December 2022
The Art of Witnessing offers a compelling new framework for understanding Francisco de Goya's famous print series, The Disasters of War.
Making Worlds
Global Invention in the Early Modern Period
Price:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487544935
Pub Date: December 2022
Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world.
Foreign Modernism
Cosmopolitanism, Identity, and Style in Paris
Price:
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487551742
Pub Date: November 2022
Foreign Modernism investigates this tense and transitional moment for both modernism and European multiculturalism by looking at the role of foreigners in Paris’s artistic scene.
The Ibero-American Baroque
Price:
$85.00
ISBN: 9781442648838
Pub Date: February 2022
The Ibero-American Baroque is an interdisciplinary, empirically-grounded contribution to the understanding of cultural exchanges in the early modern Iberian world.
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray
Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres
Price:
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487527747
Pub Date: February 2022
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture.
Picturing Punishment
The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic
Price:
$84.00
ISBN: 9781487503802
Pub Date: September 2021
Bringing together themes in the history of art, punishment, religion, and the history of medicine, Picturing Punishment provides new insights into the wider importance of the criminal to civic life.
Art Work
Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism
Price:
$79.00
ISBN: 9781487508418
Pub Date: June 2021
By exposing the separation of art and labour, Art Work provides a valuable, historical perspective on the present-day struggle for artists’ rights.
Measured Words
Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
Price:
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487541958
Pub Date: June 2021
Measured Words brings together rarely discussed Renaissance thinkers to show both the commonalities within and the variety of the conversations between computation and writing.
Seeing Through Closed Eyelids
Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture
Price:
$68.00
ISBN: 9781487500580
Pub Date: April 2021
This book provides a material and social history of the art of Giuseppe Penone, a leading protagonist of Arte Povera, whose work explores the interconnectedness of humans and the phenomenal world.
Devastation and Laughter
Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s)
Price:
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487526542
Pub Date: February 2021
In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin.
A Short History of the Ottoman Empire
Price:
$58.00
ISBN: 9781442600416
Pub Date: January 2021
This stunning new textbook traces the full history of the Ottoman Empire from its origins through to its dissolution in the early twentieth century
Picturing the Page
Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781442615311
Pub Date: May 2020
This is the first work to examine illustrated children’s literature under Lenin and Stalin and to make use of rarely-explored Soviet children’s books from libraries around the world.

The Image of Celestina
Illustrations, Paintings, and Advertisements
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487549787
Pub Date: December 2023
This book examines imagery of the eponymous character from La Celestina from the early sixteenth century until today.
The Crimean War and Cultural Memory
The War France Won and Forgot
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487547776
Pub Date: November 2023
Exploring the Crimean War through literature, theatre, spectacle, and visual arts, this book reveals how and why a major war was forgotten.
The Arts of Encounter
Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487556457
Pub Date: May 2023
The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain.
Extraordinary Aesthetes
Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487546083
Pub Date: April 2023
Extraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.
The Art of Witnessing
Francisco de Goya’s Disasters of War
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487545277
Pub Date: December 2022
The Art of Witnessing offers a compelling new framework for understanding Francisco de Goya's famous print series, The Disasters of War.
Making Worlds
Global Invention in the Early Modern Period
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487544935
Pub Date: December 2022
Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world.
Foreign Modernism
Cosmopolitanism, Identity, and Style in Paris
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487551742
Pub Date: November 2022
Foreign Modernism investigates this tense and transitional moment for both modernism and European multiculturalism by looking at the role of foreigners in Paris’s artistic scene.
The Ibero-American Baroque
$85.00
ISBN: 9781442648838
Pub Date: February 2022
The Ibero-American Baroque is an interdisciplinary, empirically-grounded contribution to the understanding of cultural exchanges in the early modern Iberian world.
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray
Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487527747
Pub Date: February 2022
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture.
Picturing Punishment
The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic
$84.00
ISBN: 9781487503802
Pub Date: September 2021
Bringing together themes in the history of art, punishment, religion, and the history of medicine, Picturing Punishment provides new insights into the wider importance of the criminal to civic life.
Art Work
Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism
$79.00
ISBN: 9781487508418
Pub Date: June 2021
By exposing the separation of art and labour, Art Work provides a valuable, historical perspective on the present-day struggle for artists’ rights.
Measured Words
Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487541958
Pub Date: June 2021
Measured Words brings together rarely discussed Renaissance thinkers to show both the commonalities within and the variety of the conversations between computation and writing.
Seeing Through Closed Eyelids
Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture
$68.00
ISBN: 9781487500580
Pub Date: April 2021
This book provides a material and social history of the art of Giuseppe Penone, a leading protagonist of Arte Povera, whose work explores the interconnectedness of humans and the phenomenal world.
Devastation and Laughter
Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s)
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487526542
Pub Date: February 2021
In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin.
A Short History of the Ottoman Empire
$58.00
ISBN: 9781442600416
Pub Date: January 2021
This stunning new textbook traces the full history of the Ottoman Empire from its origins through to its dissolution in the early twentieth century
Picturing the Page
Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin
$34.95
ISBN: 9781442615311
Pub Date: May 2020
This is the first work to examine illustrated children’s literature under Lenin and Stalin and to make use of rarely-explored Soviet children’s books from libraries around the world.