Jim Davis 
Comic Acting and Portraiture in Late-Georgian and Regency England 

Interior Design Masters contains 300 biographical entries of people who have significantly impacted design. They are the people, historical and contemporary, that students and practitioners should …

This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the building s Plateresque facade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed ideas about the individual and communal cultural …

Shaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through the lens of surface, materiality and decoration. Picking up on a trait that art historian Nikolaus Pevsner first …

This book focuses on the techniques and materials of polychromy used in early modern Europe and the Americas from 1200 to 1800. Taking a trans-cultural approach, the book studies the production of …

In the author”s own words: This is not a book to show you the details of painting or for that matter how to paint. This book is more a portrait of myself, to show you what I’m about and what goes …

Since the 1930s, Latin American writers have used magic realism to transcend the limits of the fantastic and illuminate social problems within the culture. The author considers five modern Latin Amer …

Combining the studies of modern film, traditional narratology, and Roman art, this interdisciplinary work explores the complex and highly visual techniques of Tacitus” Annales. The volume opens …

The fashion show and its spaces are sites of otherness, representing everything from rebellion and excess through to political and social activism. This conceptual and stylistic variety is reflected …

Over the last century, there has been a revolution in self-presentation and social attitudes towards hair. Developments in mass manufacturing, advances in chemical science and new understandings of …