All-American Ads of the 30s (Multilingual Edition)
Illustrations dominated advertising to lower-income shoppers, while the end of Prohibition boosted alcohol sales. Despite the Great Depression, commerce thrived with clever copywriting and visuals. On the horizon, the specter of war overshadowed emerging idealism, but optimistic ads from the decade remain plentiful.
![Boston Painters, 1720-1940. [Exhibition Catalogue]](https://cdn.kingstone.com.tw/english/images/product/8640/9781024218640m.webp?Q=39b58 "Boston Painters, 1720-1940. [Exhibition Catalogue]")
Manga
A groundbreaking story of Japanese comics from their nineteenth-century origins to the present day The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese comics, has made its mark across global pop culture, influencing film, visual art, video games, and more. This book is the first to tell the history of comics in Japan as a single, continuous story, focusing on manga as multipanel cartoons that show stories rather than narrate them. Eike Exner traces these cartoons' gradual evolution from the 1890s until today, culminating in manga's explosion in global popularity in the 2000s and the current shift from print periodicals to digital media and smartphone apps. Over the course of this 130-year history, Exner answers questions about the origins of Japanese comics, the establishment of their distinctive visuals, and how they became such a fundamental part of the Japanese publishing industry, incorporating well-known examples such as Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon, as well as historical manga little known outside of Japan. The book pays special attention to manga's structural development, examining the roles played not only by star creators but also by editors and major publishers such as Kōdansha that embraced comics as a way of selling magazines to different, often gendered, readerships. This engaging narrative presents extensive new research, making it an essential read for enthusiasts and experts alike.
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism 2026 Mini Wall Calendar
Enjoy 13 stunning paintings by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masters with this mini-sized 12-month calendar from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. From landscapes and seascapes to still lifes and portraits, this 12-month calendar highlights 13 vibrant paintings by renowned Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists, including Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Auguste Renoir. Throughout the year, journey from Paris to Provence and take pleasure in these breathtaking masterpieces. All of the works of art featured are from the world-famous collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Features include: 7" x 7" (7" x 14" open)--a great size for small spaces Printed on FSC-certified paper with soy-based ink Plastic-free packaging Planning spread for September-December 2025 Spans January-December 2026 Official major world holidays and observances Moon phases, based on Universal Time Information about each work of art shown
Impressionism and Paris 12-Month 2026 Engagement Calendar
Travel to Paris with the Impressionists with this spiral-bound weekly desk diary from The Metropolitan Museum of Art filled with 56 masterpieces showcasing the City of Lights during the Belle Epoque. The city of Paris and its parks and gardens, its boulevards and cafes, and the Parisians and their pursuits were the enduring subjects of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, all featured in this new engagement calendar from the MET. Visit a luxuriant garden in Monet's Parc Monceau. Stroll the broad, busy avenues with Pissarro's Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning. Go behind the scenes at the ballet with Degas's Dance Class or spend a relaxing hour with Cassatt's Cup of Tea. These and other beautifully reproduced works by Renoir, Manet, Seurat, and more are accompanied by brief texts that provide insights about the works of art, while each page features ample space for notes and appointments. Features include: Cover painting by Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903) 7" x 9" (14" x 9" open) Spiral-bound paperback Printed on FSC-certified paper with soy-based ink Plastic-free packaging Packaged in a sturdy, full-color gift box Spans 12 months from January-December 2026 Sunday-Saturday weeks Pages alternate between glossy for images and matte for calendar pages for ease of writing Generous grid space for notes, appointments, and reminders Official major world holidays and observances Moon phases, based on Universal Time Year-at-a-glance pages for 2026 and 2027 Extra lined pages at back for notes, goals, and more An identifying caption and a brief descriptive historical text accompany each work of art
The Trembling Hand
A provocative, revelatory history of British Romanticism that examines the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on the lives and times of some of our most beloved poets--with urgent lessons for today A scrap of Coleridge's handwriting. The sugar that Wordsworth stirred into his teacup. A bracelet made of Mary Shelley's hair. Percy Shelley's gilded baby rattle. The death mask preserving Keats's calm face. Byron's silk-lined leather boot. Who would have known there could be vast worlds contained in these items? In a completely new interpretation of the Romantics and their context, Whiting Award-winning scholar and literary sleuth Mathelinda Nabugodi uses these items to frame her interrogation of the poets, leading us on an expansive journey through time and memory, situating us in depth of their world, and her own. "Freedom, liberty, autonomy are the period's favorite words," Nabugodi writes. Romantic poets sought truth in the depth of their souls and in the mind's unbounded regions. Ideals of free speech and human rights were being forged. And yet the period was defined by a relentless commitment to the displacement and stolen labor of millions. Romanticism, she argues, can no longer be discussed without the racial violence with which it was complicit. Still, rather than using this idea to rehash Black pain and subjugation, she mines the archives for instances of resistance, beauty, and joy. Nabugodi moves effortlessly between the past and present. She takes us into the physical archives, and, with startling clarity, unpacks her relationships with them: what they are and should be; who built them; how they are entwined with an industry that was the antithesis of freedom; and how she feels holding the materials needed to write this book, as a someone whose ancestry is largely absent from their ledgers. The Trembling Hand presents a dazzling new way of reading the past. This transfixing, evocative book reframes not only the lives of the legendary Romantics, but also their poetry and the very era in which they lived. It is a reckoning with art, archives, and academia bound to echo through the conversation for a long time to come.
The Kingdom of Pylos
Presenting archaeological objects from the rich tombs of warrior-princes and the best-preserved Bronze Age palace on the Greek mainland, this volume features the latest discoveries from the dynamic world of Mycenaean Messenia. Ancient Pylos has long captivated travelers, archaeologists, and historians familiar with Homer's Iliad and his account of the kingdom of Nestor, the prudent elder counselor in the Trojan War. Excavations begun in 1939 unearthed the storied Palace of Nestor in Messenia, an epicenter of Mycenaean civilization at a crossroads between Crete, Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Egypt. The Kingdom of Pylos features spectacular works of art and craft, many recently excavated at sites across Messenia, including goldwork of unparalleled artistry, masterfully carved sealstones, weapons, and wall paintings. Essays by an international team of archaeologists examine key discoveries, including the Linear B tablets--the earliest written form of the Greek language--which document the political, religious, and economic organization of the prosperous Pylian community. New research and cutting-edge science cast light on the 2015 find of the Grave of the Griffin Warrior, an extraordinary, intact burial that preserved thousands of artifacts, including the celebrated Pylos Combat Agate, one of the finest works of the Aegean Bronze Age. With over 300 illustrations, The Kingdom of Pylos is the first major publication in English to reconstruct life in the kingdom of Pylos during the Late Bronze Age. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the Archaeological Museum of Messenia from February 15 to April 27, 2025, the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa from June 25, 2025, to January 12, 2026, and the National Archaeological Museum of Athens from March 1 to June 30, 2026.
Contested Vision: Captivity, Creativity, and Paris Prisons, 1793-1894
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.How to creatively portray the nineteenth-century prison? Presenting original research findings and proposing novel connections between penal and visual history, this book investigates how artists and other inmates attempted to communicate their captivity by pictorial means. The prisons of Paris were characterized by distinctive scopic regimes from 1793 until 1894, especially the ascendant cellular jail, in which visibility was a central element of punitive practices. As authorities imposed increasing invisibility on detainees, artists such as Hubert Robert, Jacques-Louis David, Honor矇 Daumier, Gustave Courbet, Armand D矇sir矇 Gautier, Maximilien Luce, and Th矇ophile Steinlen, among others, spent time behind bars grappling with representational strategies that almost always required conjoining words and images. The artists' prison was an ekphrastic site par excellence, a topography whose space could be depicted only when its words--graffiti, inscriptions, regulations--were bestowed legibility as signs. Penitentiary bureaucrats and criminologists analogously seized on the words and images through which inmates contested their invisibility to develop theories on recidivism, graffiti, and the "aesthetics of criminality," an ersatz study of inmate representations. The visual output scrutinized here is not mere illustration; these creations help fuse an integrated narrative showing how prison, art, and politics shaped each other.
