art history
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Robert Dance. Illustrated by Lynd Ward
Robert Dance. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Norwich and New York: Impermanent Press and The Grolier Club, 2015. 164p., ill. ISBN 9781605830629. US$ 500.00. Lynd Ward was one of the most…
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Lia Markey. Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence
Lia Markey. Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. xvii, 241 p., ill. ISBN 9780271071152. $79.95 (hardcover). The reader, upon opening this book, is…
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Sandro Jung. James Thomson’s The Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730-1842
Sandro Jung. James Thomson’s The Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730-1842. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2015. Studies in Text and Print Culture. xxi, 287 p., ill. ISBN 9781611461916. US$ 80.00…
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Jamie Kamph. Tricks of the Trade: Confessions of a Bookbinder. Kristina Lundblad. Bound to be Modern: Publishers’ Cloth Bindings and the Material Culture of the Book, 1840–1914
Jamie Kamph. Tricks of the Trade: Confessions of a Bookbinder. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. viii, 136p., ill. ISBN 9781584563341. US $24.95 (paperback). Kristina Lundblad. Bound to be…
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Janet Neary. Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives
Janet Neary. Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 222p., ill. ISBN 9780823272891. US$ 27.00 (paperback), US$ 95.00 (hardcover). I have written…
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‘Moments of Vision’: The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
‘Moments of Vision’: The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy at The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto (24 October 2016–24 February 2017).
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Vanessa Meikle Schulman. Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America
Vanessa Meikle Schulman. Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. xi, 278p., ill. ISBN 9781625341952. US $29.95 (paperback). With…
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Chloe Porter. Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion
Chloe Porter. Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. viii, 230p., ill. ISBN 9780719084973. US $110.00 (hardcover). In her intriguing…