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How did the rise of consumerism impact Britain? In In Good Taste: How Britain's Middle Classes Found
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 (P
Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization (MIT Press, 2
Opulent jewelled objects ranked among the most highly valued works of art in the European Middle Age
It’s amazing that art historians like Robert Hillenbrand got to study the “Great Mongol Shahnama” at
Brahma Prakash's book Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India (LeftWo
I am excited to welcome Eliot Borenstein to the podcast today to discuss his new monograph, Marvel C
Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with w
A cultural revolution in England, France, and the United States beginning during the time of the ind
Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages (University of Chicago, 2015) explores the relation between sodomy
Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, An
Then let the story really begin in 1968, though it has little to do with May. By chance it opens in
The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But i
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear a 2011 talk by Deirdre Bair about the artist Sau
Surfboards were once made of wood and shaped by hand, objects of both cultural and recreational sign
In her book, Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation (Intellect Books, 202
Over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from
Tristan Tzara, one of the most important figures in the twentieth century's most famous avant-garde
Rebecca Whiteley's book Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body (University of Chic
The fiftieth anniversary of Helvetica, the most famous of all sans serif typefaces, was celebrated w
