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  • The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls

    The Adventures of Eugène Boban

    by Jane MacLaren Walsh, Brett Topping ...
    Eugène Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully “palmed off” a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe’s leading museums. How could that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Measure of the Earth

    The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World

    by Larrie D. Ferreiro ...
    In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world's first international, cooperative scientific expedition.Intent on making precise astronomical measurements at the Equator, they were poised to resolve one of mankind's oldest mysteries: the true shape of the Earth.In Measure of the Earth, award-winning ... Read more

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  • Picasso the Foreigner

    An Artist in France, 1900-1973

    by Annie Cohen-Solal ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso’s character long overlooked.” —Hamilton Cain, The Wall Street Journal“A beguiling read, as ingenious as it is ambitious . . . See Picasso and Paris shimmering with new light.” —Mark Braude, author of Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s ParisBorn from her probi... ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of Surrealism

    by Keith Aspley ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Surrealism was a broad movement, which attracted many adherents. It was organized and quite strictly disciplined, at least until the death of its leader, André Breton, in 1966. As a consequence, its membership was in a constant state of flux: persons were constantly being admitted and excluded, and often the latter continued to regard themselves as Surrealists. The wide-ranging nature of the ... Read more

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  • The Belle Époque

    A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond

    by Dominique Kalifa ...
    Translated by Susan Emanuel ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture—the “Belle Époque.” The era is seen as the height of a lost way of life that remains emblematic of what it means to be French. In a vast range of texts and images, it appears as a carefree time full of joie de vivre, fanfare and frills, artistic daring, and scientific innovation. The Moulin Rouge shared ... Read more

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  • Elephant Slaves & Pampered Parrots

    Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    by Louise E. Robbins ...
    Series series Animals, History, Culture
    This lively history "adds a new dimension to our understanding of 18th-century France" by exploring the Parisian fashion of importing exotic animals ( American Historical Review).In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Ménagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor—in all, forty-two live animals. In ... Read more

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  • Tate Introductions: Miró

    by Iria Candela ...
    Series Book 4 - Tate Introductions
    The bright colours and graphic strength of paintings by Joan Miro have made him an immensely popular modern painter, but the artist would have been extremely disappointed to see his work treated as little more than interior décor.In this accessible survey of the artist's life and career, Iria Candela explains the complex roots and darker shades that lie behind the evolution of Miró's work, from ... Read more

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  • Value in Art

    Manet and the Slave Trade

    by Henry M. Sayre ...
    Art historian Henry M. Sayre traces the origins of the term "value" in art criticism, revealing the politics that define Manet's art.How did art critics come to speak of light and dark as, respectively, "high in value" and "low in value"? Henry M. Sayre traces the origin of this usage to one of art history's most famous and racially charged paintings, Édouard Manet's Olympia.Art critics once ... Read more

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  • The New Bibliopolis

    French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914

    by Willa Z. Silverman ...
    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    The late-nineteenth century in Europe was a period of profound political, social, and technological change. One result of these changes was the rise in France of an upper-bourgeois bohemian class. Many of its members stimulated interest in unique forms of artistic expression such as illustrated books. On account of their influence, an atmosphere of intense bibliophilic activity came to define ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Gift

    How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism

    by Ana Lucia Araujo ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
    The Gift explores how objects of prestige contributed to cross-cultural exchanges between Africans and Europeans during the Atlantic slave trade. An eighteenth-century silver ceremonial sword, commissioned in the port of La Rochelle by French traders, was offered as a gift to an African commercial agent in the port of Cabinda (Kingdom of Ngoyo), in twenty-first century Angola. Slave traders ... Read more

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  • A History of Booksellers and the Bookshop

    by Jean-Yves Mollier ...
    Translated by George Forty ...
    'In this fascinating book, the historian Jean-Yves Mollier highlights the astonishing diversity of roles assumed by booksellers throughout the ages and the continents' Express'Jean-Yves Mollier . . . traces meticulously the transformations of a profession and a trade recognised now as essential . . . helping us to understand why bookshops remain dear to the hearts of readers' Le MondeA fascinating ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763

    by Paul W. Mapp ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713–1763 investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from scholars' traditional focus on the Atlantic world, Paul W. Mapp demonstrates the centrality of ... Read more

    $26.59 USD