Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period opened, the Empire's southern provinces—the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean—were at the crossroads of trade routes..... More
Plume Book, 1986. Revising and updating his classic 1958 translation, Paul Roche captures the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great Theban trilogy. In vivid, poetic language, he presents the timeless story of a noble family moving toward catastrophe, dragged down from..... More
Lannoo Publishers, 2016. More
University of Washington Press, 2009. Hardcover. Interventions examines how members of Native American and Canadian First Nation groups situate their art in contemporary global environments, creating a new kind of nexus between the requirements of Native communities and the forms of public display that are of interest to worldwide audiences..... More
ACMRS Publications, 2011. This excellent collection of essays and texts surveys the culture and intellectual context of early modern Italy in order to render more intelligible the writing of Italian women. The role of women in society and the persistent misogyny even of the most pro-woman texts are explored in..... More
Forbidden City Publishing House, 2000. More
New York: Picador, 2017. A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American..... More
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. Winner of the prestigious 'Giuseppe Sormani International Prize' for the best monograph on Antonio Gramsci (4th edition, 2012-2017). Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is one of the most translated Italian authors of all time. After the Second World War his thought became increasingly influential, and remained relevant throughout..... More
2018. In this lush compendium illustrated with full-color images, the author of The Burlesque Handbook chronicles the history of one of the world’s most beloved fashion patterns—leopard print—celebrating its beauty and place in couture, and the women who have dared to wear it. In nature, the distinctive markings on..... More
Forbidden City Publishing House. More
2013. In this long-awaited follow-up to the enormously popular informal, designer, writer, and engineer Cecil Balmond invites readers into his creative process as he documents his most innovative projects in art, architecture, and bridge design. Hailed by friend and frequent collaborator Rem Koolhaas as having "almost single-handedly shifted the..... More
Verso, 2003. More
Steidl, 2008. This volume is the first to compile Andrea Zittel's gouaches and paintings on wood, which she has been creating since 1992. Zittel is best known for A-Z West, her live/work space in the California desert, of which she states, "The A-Z enterprise encompasses all aspects of day to..... More
People's Republic of China: 2008. More
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University of Washington Press, 1992. More
University of Washington Press, 1992. More
New York: 1965. More
London: F.S.A. Oldbourne Press, 1963. More
HongKong: Bonhams, 2011. A rare and brilliantly enamelled ruby-ground 'yangcai' 'floral' bowl Yongzheng yuzhi four-character mark and of the period Extremely finely potted, with shallow rounded sides rising from a short straight foot, delicately painted in brilliant 'yangcai' enamels, the details picked out in black, with chrysanthemum, mallow, various peonies..... More
Cambridge University Press. More
