Picturing women in late medieval and renaissance art

Picturing women in late medieval and renaissance artThis extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the period and proposes two basic categories the Virgin and Eve, good and evil. Within these, however, we discover attitudes to sinful, foolish, married and unmarried

McKay—who grew up in Jamaica—captures the life of African Americans from a realist’s point of view

and dystopian nightmares

sexual pleasure

Artist Scholar is part history

the book gives much needed attention to four key African fashion scenes: Nairobi

and a discussion on human intuition

Lars Weckbecker focuses on the productions of the National Film Unit in the 1940s and '50s

Rather than understanding value as an end point—"impact"—Sedgman makes the provocative claim that cultural value can better be understood as a process

The city’s sprawling structure and rapid redevelopment – embodied by the high-rise apartments taking over historic districts – render Beijing’s streets hard to navigate and its culture is just as difficult to penetrate

which allowed European integration to move forward

A major piece of work

Para-academic is a name for those under- and precariously employed