http://www.ashgate.com The latest publications from Ashgate Publishing Ltd en-gb Tue, 21 May 2013 21:11:28 GMT @copyright Ashgate Publishing Ltd http://www.ashgate.com/ 15 http://www.ashgate.com/ http://www.ashgate.com/images/ashgate_logo.gif Birmingham Town Hall occupies a central place in the history of Britain's second city. Built in 1834 to champion and reflect Birmingham's civic achievements, the Town Hall's design was based on the form and style of a partially surviving Roman temple and involved architectural luminaries such as Sir John Soane. This is the first book to provide an accessible account of the building's construction and history. It will be welcomed by architects, architectural historians, all those interested in local history and building conservation, and those for whom the Town Hall is a much-loved landmark in Birmingham. /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=10488&title_id=10172&calctitle=1 /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=10488&title_id=10172&calctitle=1 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT Anthony Peers, with a Foreword by Frank Salmon By documenting and guiding us on the journeys we make every day, maps influence the way we navigate and identify with our surroundings. The Underground, London Transport, and its successor Transport for London, have produced and inspired maps which are navigational, decorative forms of publicity and works of art. This book, which draws on the rich collections of the London Transport Museum, sets out to explore this unique form of visual communication. /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=12148&title_id=11779&calctitle=1 /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=12148&title_id=11779&calctitle=1 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Claire Dobbin With a foreword by Peter Barber from The British Library The relatively new medium of photography has generated, from its inception, intense debate over its merits as an art form. In Reading Photography, Sri-Kartini Leet brings together over 100 extracts from writings on different themes in the medium to explore the history of the art of photography. This fascinating sourcebook introduces the reader to a broad and enriching range of art-historical comment engendered by the photograph, from Edward Weston, Maholy-Nagy, Raoul Haussmann and Man Ray writing in the 1920s and 1930s, to the texts of contemporary commentators such as Lucy Lippard, Griselda Pollock and Ian Jeffrey. In its entirety this comprehensive volume charts the changing perception of the medium over nearly a century: the role of photography in the development of modernism; its appropriation by the Surrealists as a vehicle for aesthetic experimentation; the inclusion of photography in post-modernism to question traditional notions of what constitutes art; the use of landscape and the city as photographic subjects to represent political, social and psychological states; the acceptance of colour as an expressive art medium from the 1960s onwards; and the impact of the digital age. /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=7856&title_id=7639&calctitle=1 /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=7856&title_id=7639&calctitle=1 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Sri-Kartini Leet, University of Northampton, UK Bringing together a selection of large-scale historical paintings, modest and rarely seen landscape watercolours, illustrated novels, children's books, newspaper illustrations and ephemera from both public and private sources, this groundbreaking publication explores both an unduly neglected figure and some important aspects of Victorian life. Offering first-class, original research, Sir John Gilbert is essential reading for all those with a particular interest in Victorian art, literature and society. /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=10931&title_id=10610&calctitle=1 /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=10931&title_id=10610&calctitle=1 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT Spike Bucklow and Sally Woodcock with contributions by Mark Bills, Nicola Bown, Spike Bucklow, Kathleen Froyen, Paul Goldman, Vivien Knight, Caroline Oliver, Neil Rhind, Libby Sheldon, Timothy Wilcox and Sally Woodcock A tumultuous period in history, the late Byzantine era bore witness to bloody power struggles that dramatically changed the geographical, political and social landscape of a region and its people. Among the many shifts during this time of flux was the switch of major artistic production from Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, to Candia, the capital of Venetian-occupied Crete. Exploring the life and work of Angelos Akotantos, the most significant artist active in Venetian Crete, The Hand of Angelos provides groundbreaking insights into a key figure and the period in which he worked. /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=10249&title_id=9939&calctitle=1 /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=10249&title_id=9939&calctitle=1 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Edited by Maria Vassilaki with essays by Angeliki Laiou, Chryssa Maltezou, David Jacoby, Robin Cormack, Maria Kazanaki-Lappa and Nano Chatzidaki. Kathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan capture the experience of the medieval pilgrim through an examination of art, historical and social contexts as well as themes related to pilgrimage such as music, legend and ritual. The book is copiously illustrated with new photographs by Marilyn Deegan showcasing the visual legacy of the medieval pilgrimage experience in sculpture, painting and architecture. Interwoven in the narrative text are original sources bringing to us the voice of these men and women who set out on what was then an epic journey. /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=8157&title_id=7929&calctitle=1 /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=8157&title_id=7929&calctitle=1 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT Kathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan The Crusades, which began as expeditions called by the Pope to regain the Holy Land and liberate the oppressed Christians living there, were one of the most important and recognizable features of the European Middle Ages. One of the least-known aspects of the Crusades is the art that was commissioned by the Crusaders in the Holy Land from the time they took Jerusalem in July 1099 to the time they were pushed into the sea by the Mamluks in 1291. This book tells the fascinating story of Crusader art, focusing for the first time on Crusader painting (manuscript illumination, frescoes, mosaics and icon painting) as providing the most significant continuous surviving evidence for the genre's development. Essential reading for scholars, students and enthusiasts alike. /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=8303&title_id=8066&calctitle=1 /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=8303&title_id=8066&calctitle=1 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Jaroslav Folda, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA This book looks at the relationship between traditional icon painting and the art of the Russian avant-garde. Although artists repudiated their heritage in line with the political and social climate their work shows unmistakable influence of iconic paintings. Important artists such as Malevich and Tatlin are considered and their oeuvre examined to identify the stylistic borrowing from icons. It includes a history of the avant-garde in Russia, the psychology between 1917 and the 1950s and the impact of the spirituality of Russian orthodoxy. /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=7837&title_id=7620&calctitle=1 /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=7837&title_id=7620&calctitle=1 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Andrew Spira Louis XIV enjoyed visiting his fruit and vegetable gardens. Enriched with exotic plants by the numerous botanical expeditions that took place during the 17th century, the king's gardens were a true agronomical laboratory and provided plant specimens for academics, illustrators and engravers. Louis XIV's Botanical Engravings contains a collection of around sixty of the watercolour engravings produced during the reign of Louis XIV. These exquisite illustrations allow us to familiarise ourselves with some of the plants brought back from distant lands, and to understand the contribution they made to scientific research, as well as their beneficial properties. /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=8447&title_id=8206&calctitle=1 /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=8447&title_id=8206&calctitle=1 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Alain Renaux Power to the People presents the Israel Museum's major collection of propaganda posters from the early years of the Soviet Union, documenting one of the most interesting chapters in twentieth-century graphic design. Inspired by the traditional vernacular of political cartoons, by the lubok wood-cut technique of Russian folk art, and by the ideas of Futurism, the poster artists employed a new visual language to explain the results of the Revolution to the Soviet people. The Israel Museum's collection of Soviet propaganda posters is the largest museum collection of its kind outside Russia. This book illustrates the entire collection for the first time. /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=7990&title_id=7769&calctitle=1 /default.aspx?page=643&edition_id=7990&title_id=7769&calctitle=1 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Edited by Alex Ward with an essay by Muza Anatolivna Nemirova and a Foreword by James S. Snyder