This is a celebration of the extensive and little-known collection of Ottoman embroidery at the V&A, which ranges from the middle of the 16th-century to 1900. Sumptuous illustrations, showing over one hundred major pieces from the rich collection, are accompanied by a brief historical introduction and diagrams, which provide invaluable guidance for needleworkers.
Ming Dynasty Colour-Printed Erotica
by Christer Von der Burg, James Cahill, Soeren Edgren, Craig Clunas, Pingsheng Song, Cuncun Wu, Lianxi Weng, Chao Wang, and Hiromitsu Kobayashi
The turn of the eighteenth century was a period of transition in France, a time when new but contested concepts of modernity emerged in virtually every cultural realm. The rigidity of the state's consolidation of the arts in the late seventeenth century yielded to a more vibrant and diverse cultural life, and Paris became, once again, the social and artistic capital of the wealthiest nation in Europe. In Sheltering Art, Rochelle Ziskin explores private art collecting, a primary facet of that new...
Boucher, Watteau
The Baroque period was in some senses the beginning of modern Western scientific and intellectual culture, the early budding of the Enlightenment. In the light of a new scientific and historical consciousness, it saw the rise of deism and the critique of traditional forms of Christianity. Secular values and institutions were openly or surreptitiously replacing the structures of traditional Christian society. At the same time, it was a time of religious renewal and of the reaffirmation of traditi...
L'Histoire de l'Histoire del l'Art Septentrional Au Xviie Siecle (Art Theory (1400-1800), #1)
by Michele-Caroline Heck
Innovation and Experience in the Early Baroque in the Southern Netherlands
The British School of Sculpture, c.1760-1832 (British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700)
The British School of Sculpture, c. 1760�1832 represents the first edited collection exploring one of the most significant moments in British art history, returning to centre stage a wide range of sculpture considered for the first time by some of the most important scholars in the field. Following a historical and historiographical introduction by the editors, situating British sculpture in relation to key events and developments in the period, and the broader scholarship on British art more ge...
"The Songs of Innocence and Experience" is William Blake's most accessible work, bringing together "Songs of Innocence", drawn from "An Island In the Moon", and "Songs of Experience" whose 50 poems come from the "Manuscript Notebook". This text details the evolution of the manuscript and the production process of the book. All the manuscript pages are reproduced here, and the details of Blake's composition are shown, as is his technique for etching text and design onto a single copperplate. Blak...
Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Jacob Bean
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he died in 1721, when he was only thirty-six, has influenced innumerable painters and writers in the centuries since—and whose work continues to deepen o...
Der Akademische Affe (Supplemente Zu Den Sitzungsberichten der Heidelberger Akadem, #6)
by Hans-Joachim Zimmermann