Libros

This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture with their rich and fluent décor. Their names (...)

Innovation, technology, and spectacle combine in wondrous works of decorative art and furniture that embody the splendor and luxury of the royal courts of EuropeAt once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in Making Marvels demonstrate how European royalty from the (...)

Käthe Kollwitz (1867 1945), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 1907), Gabriele Münter (1877 1962) and Marianne Werefkin (1860 1938) are among the exceptional artists associated with the emergence of Expressionism in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century. Each challenged prevailing ideals of (...)

In this brilliant study of the early history of jet engines, Hermione Giffard demolishes the myth of German aeronautical triumph and transforms the way we should think about technological change in general. While conventional histories of technology focus on the inventor-hero struggling to fulfil a (...)