This volume examines when, how and why cabinets of prints and drawings became a specialised part of princely and private collections. Among other things, it assesses how important collections were for the self-representation of a prince or connoisseur among specialists and peers.
Collective and Collaborative Drawing in Contemporary Practice
What happens when people draw together? While collaborative drawing is widely explored, there is little published research on the topic. This book establishes the field, covering conversations through drawing, collaborative processes, and drawing communities.
The people of a small town absorbed by Mexico City share memories of the games, food, and streets of their past. This book presents a way to build a future that rescues the community’s identity, which still binds them together in spite of the city’s segregating trends.
This work traces how Oxford and Cambridge colleges, founded for celibate men, clung to a monastic way of life into the nineteenth century. It explores the struggle of courageous individuals who finally overturned the statutes in 1882, allowing Fellows to marry.
College Coaches and Teaching Civil Society Literacy
A treasure is hidden on college campuses: the expertise coaches acquire in uniting people with different interests. This is vital for General Education, yet coaches are often ineligible to teach. The author charts a path for bringing them “off the bench” and into the classroom.
Collision
Interdisciplinary art has been largely ignored. This collection charts the radical explosion of interarts practices, exploring collisions of body, technology, space, and aesthetics, alongside perspectives from law, political activism, and spirituality.
Colonial and Global Interfacings
Colonial techniques of domination boomeranged back to the West, sustained by capitalist relations. As new movements challenge the world order, this book explores how global flows of people and ideas transform identity and power from the North to the South.
Colonial Inventions
This book analyzes how visual art was not just illustrative but constitutive of colonial power in 19th-century Trinidad. It unearths sketches and paintings that created racialized scripts for colonized subjects, nature, and the plantation landscape.
Colonial Psychosocial
With blistering rhetoric, William Lane mesmerised colonial Australia, playing on its fears of disease, deformity and invasion. This book follows his life—from dark cities to a failed utopia—to trace how he shaped a lasting legacy of exclusion.
Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845
De Silva considers the ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals that the position of the British population in the country in the 19th century was often more nuanced than often assumed.
This book presents multi-angled perspectives of socio-religious transition, adopting the cultural religiosity of the Asian people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concepts of imperialism, religious syncretism and modernisation.
Colonial Visions, Postcolonial Revisions
This book traces the Malaysian Indian diaspora from colonial subordination to postcolonial identity. It uncovers the suppressed story of coolie resistance and reveals how pioneer immigrants choreographed the diasporic identity they left as a legacy for today.
This book addresses the neglected link between national identity and colonial culture in Italy. It is a critical reflection on a denied past, reconstructing uncomfortable memories that overlap the challenging present circumstances of rigidity, racism and rejection.
Colonies in Conflict
This book traces the little-known history of the British Overseas Territories, the last remnants of the British Empire. It reveals how today’s wars, scandals, and controversies are rooted in a past of conflict, corruption, and neglect by a two-speed Empire.
Colonising Te Whanganui ā Tara and Marketing Wellington, 1840-1849
In the 1840s, the New Zealand Company used powerful images to lure English settlers to Wellington, a land already home to Māori. This book explores how these visuals were complicit in transferring Māori land into English ownership, investigating processes of redress and hope.
This book examines how color is categorized and named in a number of languages, drawing on as-yet unexplored aspects of color language and categorization. Several approaches are taken to describe new research on how the concept is represented in various languages.
Colour in Sculpture
This book introduces sculpture across five millennia, exploring the intentional relationship between colour and form. It suggests that whether used for cultural custom or to enhance expression, polychromy adds another dimension of encoded meaning.
CoMa 2013
This book offers a wide variety of subjects on preserving image collections. It covers theoretical questions of value, collection management, scientific research, and digitization, providing a base for anyone dealing with photographs to ensure their long-term preservation.
Bringing together specialists from various backgrounds, this book establishes, and then analyses, the interrelation between series and dependence by focusing on two aspects of their connection: the overconsumption of TV series, and the production devices that lead to it.
Come Weep With Me
This groundbreaking anthology examines loss and mourning in the work of Caribbean women writers like Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Maryse Condé. These original essays explore slavery, dictatorships, and disaster, challenging customary discourses on loss.
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