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The Tomb of Dracula
Dracula’s reign of terror continues, brought to you by the fan-favorite creative team of Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan and Tom Palmer! While being pursued by Frank Drake, Rachel Van Helsing and Taj Nital, the King of the Vampires draws attention from other parties – including Jack Russell, the Werewolf by Night! What unexpected role has Dracula played in the family history of Marvel’s most famous werewolf? And it’s not just vampire hunters that Dracula must worry about in his pursuit of power: The Count has his hands full with other members of his bloodthirsty brethren, not to mention the inimitable super villain Doctor Sun! Also featuring the dire secrets of the Darkhold and the origin of Blade: Vampire Hunter! Collecting TOMB OF DRACULA (1972) #12-22, WEREWOLF BY NIGHT (1972) #15, GIANT-SIZE SPIDER-MAN #1 and material from DRACULA LIVES #4 and #6.
The Explicit Material
The Explicit Material gathers varied perspectives from the discourses of conservation, curation and humanities disciplines to focus on aspects of heritage transmission and material transitions. The authors observe and explicate the myriad transformations that works of different kinds - manuscripts, archaeological artefacts, video art, installations, performances, film, and built heritage - may undergo: changing contexts, changing matter, changing interpretations and display. Focusing on the vibrant materiality of artworks and artefacts, The Explicit Material puts an emphasis on objects as complex constructs of material relations. By so doing, it announces a shift in sensibilities and understandings of the significance of objects and the materials they are made of, and on the increasingly blurred boundaries between the practices of conservation and curation.
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome
Tales of deforestation and desertification in North Africa have been told from the Roman period to the present. Such stories of environmental decline in the Maghreb are still recounted by experts and are widely accepted without question today. International organizations such as the United Nations frequently invoke these inaccurate stories to justify environmental conservation and development projects in the arid and semiarid lands in North Africa and around the Mediterranean basin. Recent research in arid lands ecology and new paleoecological evidence, however, do not support many claims of deforestation, overgrazing, and desertification in this region. Diana K. Davis’s pioneering analysi...
The Cult of the Modern
"The Cult of the Modern focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examining the idiomatic use of modernity in French cultural and political discourse. The Cult of the Modern argues that the modern French republic is a product of nineteenth-century colonialism rather than a creation of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution. This analysis contests the predominant Parisian and metropolitan contexts that have traditionally framed French modernity studies, noting the...
MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938
What was Three Centuries of American Art? -- Loaning across oceans : symbolism, risk, and value -- Creating a contemporary American art history across centuries -- Art on paper -- Appendix : tables of artworks included in Three Centuries of American Art.
Chaos in the Heavens
Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences of our actions upon the environment for centuries. The subject was raised wherever history accelerated: by the conquistadors in the New World, by the French revolutionaries of 1789, by the scientists and politicians of the nineteenth century, by the European imperialists in Asia and Africa until the Second World War. Climate change was at the heart of fundamental debates about colonisation, God, the state, nature, and capitalism. From these intellectual and political battles emerged key concepts of contemporary environmental science and policy. For a brief interlude, science and industry instilled in us the reassuring illusion of an impassive climate. But, in the age of global warming, we must, once again, confront the chaos in the heavens.
Art and the Nazis, 1933-1945
This first comprehensive analysis of the Third Reich's efforts to confiscate, loot, censor and influence art begins with a brief history of the looting of artworks in Western history. The artistic backgrounds of Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goring are examined, along with the various Nazi art looting organizations, and Nazi endeavors to both censor and manipulate the arts for propaganda purposes. Long-held beliefs about the Nazi destruction of "degenerate art" are examined, drawing on recently developed university databases, new translations of original documents and recently discovered information. Theft and destruction of artworks by the Allies and looting by Soviet trophy brigades are also documented.
Hans Holbein the Younger
Addressing the critical reception of painter Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98-1543), this volume consists of two parts. The first section comprises a series of short essays reflecting responses to Holbein throughout history which forged his critical and popular reputation. This section also includes overviews of the most important monographs and exhibitions, as well as a selection of research published since 1980. The second, much larger part is an annotated bibliography containing some 2,500 entries on a range of subjects including books, essays in scholarly journals, and articles published in the popular media. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Weimar Surfaces
Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual culture, analyzing the power that 1920s Germany holds for today's visual codes of consumerism.
