Material Culture

Extensively illustrated with representative images, this unique book illuminates the cultural significance of the highly colorized linen postcards ...

Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the con...

Focusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications, Apostolic Iconogr...

Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned ...

A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to R...

Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century, and the fact that his collec...

On March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrids largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and ...

Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a technique and a science that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its ...

A fortuitous urban miracle, Tommy Thompson Park is an oasis of accidental wilderness on Torontos lakeshore. Initially created as a landfill site on...

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from t...

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It off...

What can queer feminist writing strategies such as parody and irony do to outsmart the sexism of smart objects, environments and materials and open...

Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by the Popular Culture Association How popular culture is engaged by activists to ef...

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c....

In this ground-breaking study, leading Gramsci scholar Guido Liguori unearths the philological pathways through which the Sardinian Communist's thi...

First full-length interdisciplinary study of the effect of these everyday surroundings on literature, culture and the collective consciousness of t...

A cultural and historical philosophy of fashion in economic and social life from the 1830s to the present dayUlrich Lehmann brings together methods...

A concise illustrated history of one of arts most important and elusive elementsOver the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate,...

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from t...

What does material culture tell us about gendered identities and how does gender reveal the meaning of spaces and things? If we look at the objec...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN ...

Worlds of Byzantium offers a new understanding of what it means to study the history and visual culture of the Byzantine empire during late antiqui...

Discover a dazzling deep-dive into the history of the world through a totally new lens, as told by the V&As Senior Jewellery Curator. Includes ...

The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism   In the eighteenth century, womens contributions to ...