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Stone, and especially marble—in the broad, ancient, and traditional sense of a veined stone lending itself to be carved and polished—is a topical subject in the history of art and architecture.
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A copper ingot found in Cyprus signifies both the beginning and the end of life for many items of metalwork.
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By recording the physical evidence of metal’s molten transition between forms, gold and silver ingots offer a material foothold on the metaphors of liquidity and flow used to conceptualize the global circulation of precious metal in premodernity.
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When did colonial America begin? This is the polemical question Byron Ellsworth Hamann sets out to answer in his immensely erudite and lavishly illustrated The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archives of the Indies, 1781–1844.
Notes from the Field
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Book ReviewArts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, & Architecture in Medieval Islam
This book can be described as an extended essay on perception and mentality in the medieval Islamic world in relationship to objects.
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Book ReviewThe Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archives of the Indies, 1781–1844.
When did colonial America begin? This is the polemical question Byron Ellsworth Hamann sets out to answer in his immensely erudite and lavishly illustrated The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archives of the Indies, 1781–1844.
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Book ReviewPainting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Stone, and especially marble—in the broad, ancient, and traditional sense of a veined stone lending itself to be carved and polished—is a topical subject in the history of art and architecture.
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Book ReviewDanish Modern Furniture 1930–2016: The Rise, Decline and Re-Emergence of a Cultural Market Category
Though the original Danish version of this book was published in 2006, sustained interest in Scandinavian mid-century modern design in popular and academic circles makes this new, expanded English edition most welcome.
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Book ReviewThe Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
Dan Hicks’s book is true to the period of its subject for he has written a Victorian melodrama.