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Mindprints: Thoreau's Material Worlds Ivan Gaskell 9780226836072
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $52.61A rediscovery of Thoreau's interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought. Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with ascetic renunciation, he accumulated a variety of... -
Paintings and the Past: Philosophy, History, Art by Ivan Gaskell
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78This book is an exploration of how art-specifically paintings in the European manner-can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex... -
Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations Cornelius Holtorf 9781138788220
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $79.78Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our understanding of the challenges faced by heritage practitioners and researchers in the contemporary world of mass... -
Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment: Pleasure, Reflection and Accountability by Jennifer A. McMahon
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78This edited collection sets forth a new understanding of aesthetic-moral judgment organized around three key concepts: pleasure, reflection, and accountability. The overarching theme is that art is... -
Rethinking Historical Distance by Mark Salber Phillips 9780230284081
Booksplease Price: $101.58The idea of distance is one of the defining principles of modern historical method. This volume gives the discussion of historical distance new breadth, flexibility and importance by incorporating... -
New Perspectives on Historical Writing by Peter Burke 9780745624280
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.35The way in which history is written has changed quite dramatically - so much so that the phrase ?the new history? is now commonly used by historians. But what is the new history and how ?new? is it?... -
Religious Objects in Museums: Private Lives and Public Duties Crispin Paine 9781847887733
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.19In the past, museums often changed the meaning of icons or statues of deities from sacred to aesthetic, or used them to declare the superiority of Western society, or simply as cultural and... -
Critical Terms for Art History by Robert S. Nelson
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $59.89"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased... -
The Connoisseur: A Cultural History Peter Burke 9781836391951
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.45The connoisseur has been an influential, if somewhat mysterious, figure in the history of art, responsible for making or breaking high-profile collections and reputations and influencing taste, the... -
Remix: Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas by Selma Holo 9780520284524
RRP: $132.30Booksplease Price: $118.15Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix aims to change the discourse about museums from the inside out, proposing a new,... -
Remix: Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas by Selma Holo 9780520284531
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $58.46Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix aims to change the discourse about museums from the inside out, proposing a new,... -
Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries by David Carrier
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.44In Museum Skepticism, art historian David Carrier traces the birth, evolution, and decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion. Carrier contends... -
Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology by Alberto L. Siani 9780231213677
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94The notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often seen as apolitical, a matter of subjective tastes and preferences. This... -
Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology by Alberto L. Siani 9780231213660
RRP: $245.70Booksplease Price: $192.07Winner, 2025 International Original Work, Italian Society for AestheticsThe notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often... -
Tangible Things: Making History through Objects by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 9780199382286
Booksplease Price: $104.83In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their... -
The Philosophy of Curatorial Practice: Between Work and World by Sue Spaid 9781350114890
Booksplease Price: $235.47This book walks us through the process of how artworks eventually get their meaning, showing us how curated exhibitions invite audience members to weave an exhibition's narrative threads, which gives...