Transformative Jars

• Hardcover | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• The term 'jar' refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something. Few objects are as universal and multi-functional as a jar - regar... Lees meer

Jewellery in the Age of Modernism 1918-1940

Simon Bliss

• Hardcover | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• Why has jewellery and body adornment often been marginalized in studies of modernist art and design? This study explores the relationship between jewe... Lees meer

Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840

Freya Gowrley

• Hardcover | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• Between 1750 and 1840, the home took on unprecedented social and emotional significance. Focusing on the design, decoration, and reception of a range ... Lees meer

Childhood by Design

• Paperback | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary 'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, Childhood By Design: Toys an... Lees meer

Domestic Space in France and Belgium

Claire Moran

• Hardcover | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• Domestic Space in France and Belgium offers a new addition to the growing body of work in Interior Studies. Focused on late 19th and early 20th-centur... Lees meer

Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• Shine allures and awakens desire. As a phenomenon of perception shiny things and materials fascinate and tantalize. They are a formative element of ma... Lees meer

Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain

• Paperback | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• The 18th century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a ... Lees meer

Georges Rouault and Material Imagining

Jennifer Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative... Lees meer

British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940

• Hardcover | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting and house interiors allowed British women scope to express... Lees meer

Transformative Jars

• Paperback | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• The term 'jar' refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something. Few objects are as universal and multi-functional as a jar - regar... Lees meer

Georges Rouault and Material Imagining

Jennifer Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative... Lees meer

Childhood by Design

• Hardcover | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary 'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, Childhood By Design: Toys an... Lees meer

Intimate Interiors

• Hardcover | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• A desire for intimacy in domestic spaces - motivated by a growing sense of individualistic expression, an incentive to conceal the labor or enslavemen... Lees meer

Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• Shine allures and awakens desire. As a phenomenon of perception shiny things and materials fascinate and tantalize. They are a formative element of ma... Lees meer

Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain

• Hardcover | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain... Lees meer

Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art

Sarah R Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Material Culture of Art and Design
• How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers in Western Europe, also emerged as a key th... Lees meer