A History of Andersonville Prison Monuments (Civil War by Stacy W. Reaves

Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life

The puppet creates satisfaction and worry. it may possibly evoke the blameless play of formative years, or develop into a device of formality magic, in a position to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets could be creepy issues, secretive, inanimate whereas additionally packed with spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this eloquent ebook, Kenneth Gross contemplates the fascination of those unsettling objects—objects which are additionally actors and photographs of lifestyles.

The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680-1820

The areas of the sanatorium examines how hospitals operated as a fancy class of social, city and architectural house in London from 1680 to 1820. this era witnessed the transformation of the town right into a glossy city. The sanatorium was once greatly a part of this procedure and its areas, either inside and external, aid us to appreciate those alterations by way of spatiality and spatial practices.

Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction

In his most up-to-date ebook, James Elkins deals a highway map during the box of visible experiences, describing its significant issues and its relevant theoretical assets. Then, with the ability and perception that experience marked his winning books on artwork and visuality, Elkins takes the reader down an aspect highway the place visible stories can turn into a extra fascinating position.

Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, 1814–1879 (Reinterpreting 19th Century Architecture)

Hailed as one of many key theoreticians of modernism, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was once additionally the main well known recovery architect of his age, a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism. He released the most influential texts within the background of contemporary structure similar to the Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle and Entretiens sur l’architecture, but additionally stories on battle, geology and racial historical past.