The Peenemünde Wind Tunnels

Peter P Wegener

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in British Art
• In 1943, on orders from the German Air Ministry, young physicist Peter P. Wegener left the Russian front and reported to the Baltic village of Peenemü... Lees meer

Owning the Past

Ruth Guilding

• Hardcover | Studies in British Art
• A re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues. Analyzing the motives the drove "Marble Mania"... Lees meer

Patronage, Culture and Power

• Hardcover | Studies in British Art
• A study of the Cecils, the dominant noble family in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. This wide-ranging collection of essays draws on architectural an... Lees meer

The Evolution of English Collecting

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in British Art | nr. 12
• This book surveys for the first time the evolution of English collecting. Edward Chaney begins with the background history of European collecting, foc... Lees meer

William Burton Conyngham and His Irish Circle of Antiquarian Artists

Peter Harbison

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in British Art
• In the midst of a resurgence of pride in Ireland's history during the 18th century, William Burton, later Conyngham (1733-1796), strove to emulate his... Lees meer

Neo-Avant-Garde and Postmodern

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in British Art | nr. 21
• The neo-avant-garde and postmodern movements have long been understood in terms of their re-working of modernism and a narrative emphasizing rupture a... Lees meer

Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in British Art | nr. 18
• The return of Charles II to the English throne after eleven years of Interregnum heralded the beginning of a new era in which the court was characteri... Lees meer

William Henry Fox Talbot

Eleanor Robson, Graham Smith, Larry J Schaaf, Herta Wolf, Vered Maimon, Anne Secord, June Barrow-Green

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in British Art | nr. 23
• William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age--a time ... Lees meer

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art

Elizabeth Goldring

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in British Art
• This book is the first comprehensive survey of aristocratic art collecting and patronage in Elizabethan England, as seen through the activities of Rob... Lees meer

George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America

Michael Hall

• Hardcover | Studies in British Art
• British architect George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907) fundamentally shaped the architecture, art and design of the Anglican Church throughout England ... Lees meer

Prospects for the Nation

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in British Art | nr. 4
• This fascinating book provides a picture of the changing state of British landscape studies. Art historians, historians, geographers, and literary sch... Lees meer