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Lair W 18
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The professional career and success of Wilhelm Bode (1845-1929)
relied on the business of connoisseurship. Like other contemporary
art historians involved in the commerce of art, he was entangled in
the reciprocal dynamics and interdependencies of the nascent
discipline of art history, connoisseurship and the art trade. The
volume introduces new material and a fresh perspective on Bode's
strategic participation in the Western art market, exposing the
particular consequences of these entanglements on the birth of the
art historical canon and showcasing his complex agency within the
art marketplace of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth
centuries.
Jason D'Aquino is known for his meticulous, ultra-precise miniature
drawings on matchbooks and other kinds of vintage paper. Here he
enlists his super-sharp pencil in a slightly larger format: the
alphabet book. Based on early 20th-century circus and carnival acts
and personalities, these ABCs star an amazing assortment of arcane
animals, madcap marvels, and marvelous men and women of the midway.
A celebration of all those who venture beyond the mainstream, this
exquisitely illustrated book offers a fascinating glimpse into a
magical world of fantasy and illusion.
Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism redefines the potential of American
antislavery literature as a cultural and political imaginary by
situating antislavery literature in specific transnational contexts
and highlighting the role of women as producers, subjects, and
audiences of antislavery literature. Pia Wiegmink draws attention
to locales, authors, and webs of entanglement between texts, ideas,
and people. Perceived through the lens of gender and
transnationalism, American antislavery literature emerges as a body
of writing that presents profoundly reconfigured literary
imaginations of freedom and equality in the United States prior to
the Civil War.
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Practical Masonry
- A Guide to the Art of Stone Cutting, Comprising the Construction, Setting-Out, and Working of Stairs, Circular Work, Arches, Niches, Domes, Pendentives, Vaults, Tracery Windows, Etc., Etc. for the Use of Students, Masons, and Other Workm
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