Browsing History of Art and Architecture (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Metadata: how we relate to images
(Lethaby Gallery, London, 2018)One might justly claim that metadata is ubiquitous, structuring our interactions with the world in manifold ways. As data about other data, metadata describes and classifies information; among its best-known applications ... -
MIDDLE EASTERN CRAFTS: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW, VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, OCTOBER 11-12, 2018
(2020)Craft is having a moment – the international market for contemporary craft is more buoyant than ever, with record trade figures and increasingly high-profile exhibitions and publications.1 But contemporary craft from the ... -
Mudéjar and the Alhambresque: Spanish Pavilions at the Universal Expositions and the Invention of a National Style
(2017)Spain's complex relationship with its Islamic architectural heritage was brought into particular focus through the prism of its national pavilions that were built for the Universal Expositions of the late nineteenth and ... -
The Museum Building's radical polychromy
(Four Courts Press, 2019)The radical polychromy of the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin did not emerge Minerva-like from the brow of Benajmin Woodward, but rather from an imbrication of architecture, geology and engineering ... -
Ornament and craftsmanship in the architecture of James Gibbs
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Permanent expressions of piety: the secular and the sacred in later medieval stone sculpture
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Rethinking the Borders of Islamic art: Paterna ceramics from the fourteenth century to today
(Equinox Publishing Limited, 2022)Recent scholarship in Islamic art and architecture has seen a growing interest in art from the borderlands – the borders of empires, peoples, religions and practices. In this context, the art of Muslim majority populations ... -
Reviving the Artisan Sculptor: The Role of Ruskin, Science and Art Education
(Four Courts Press, 2019)On meeting the O’Sheas in Oxford Ruskin saw them as the ideal of the savage northern workmen, obstinate and generous who by natural instinct brought a fluidity, freshness and life to their work. Dr Henry Acland, ... -
St Patrick's Well
(TRIARC and Associated Editions, 2008)Just off the tree-lined pathway to the Provost’s House Stables is a narrow vault that extends under Nassau Street, close to its junction with Dawson Street. Housed within this vault is a well, reputed to be St Patrick’s ... -
Unfinished business: Thomas Duff of Newry
(2020)The Festschrift is the friend of unfinished research relegated to shelf or drawer, too hard-won and engaging to be forgotten. The date ‘24th April 1985’ is inscribed on a manuscript transcription made at ... -
Versions and visions of the Alhambra in the nineteenth-century Ottoman world
(2015)The Alhambra as a source of inspiration for Western architects in the nineteenth century is well known and has been thoroughly documented. But “alhambresque” style was not just an Orientalist exoticism in the West. It ... -
Visualizing Archaeologies: A Manifesto
(2007)Is archaeology a science? Is archaeology a humanity? What are the politics of spectatorship and archaeological representation? These initial thoughts form the basis for our archaeological explorations. Within current ... -
Was the carver happy while he was about it? Trinity's Museum Building and the Ruskinian principle of happiness
(Liverpool University Press, 2021-02)The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin (1853-7), by Deane, Son & Woodward, is a seminal work of Ruskinian Gothic architecture, influencing a generation of British and Irish architects, and revolutionising Victorian ...