Joe Brainard 
Collected Writings of Joe Brainard 

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

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 kn …

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 …

This title was first published in 2003. Problem pictures were very popular during the Edwardian period. These pictures invited multiple interpretations of modern life and were often slightly risque. …

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 …

Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of social messages was no different. This volume covers …

‘Full of surprises [and] evocative.’ The Spectator ‘Passionately written.’ Apollo ‘An extraordinary accomplishment.’ Edmund de Waal ‘Monumental.’ Times Literary Supplement ‘An epic re …

This vibrant history of the former German Democratic Republic”s public art reveals a barely known but visually and theoretically rich cultural legacy. Picturing Socialism shows how works of art and …