This volume charts alternative courses through history via the physical conditions and artisanal ...

Highlights ways of thinking and doing that connect philosophical generality to socio-material idi...

New modes of displaying and viewing African art and material culture.At the heart of SIGHTLINES o...

'The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most cultural...

'First published in the United States of America by the University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ...

'In the West at the turn of the twentieth century, public understanding of science and the world ...

Derived from the Latin term 'ex voto suscepto' meaning made in accordance with a vow, ex votos em...

'In early twentieth-century Berlin, the museums debate was set into motion with Wilhelm von Bode'...

History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular chron...

A selection of Leroi-Gourhan's most important texts--many translated into English for the first t...

In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse gr...

How do works of art endure over time despite their material and conceptual alteration? How do dec...

A volume considering questions of conservation that arise with new artistic mediums and practices...

Considers the future of conservation and its connection to the human sciences.

'This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Staging the Table in Europe 1500-...

Bredekamp, H: Aby Warburg and America - The Art Historian as

Thought-provoking discussions on conservation from various points of view. What is Conservation? ...

A reconstruction of the first exhibition of world art history in Germany, organized by the histor...