Connoisseurs and conmen

Connoisseurs and conmenThis book examines John Hilditch (1872 1930), a notorious collector of Chinese art who lied, hoaxed and manipulated in his struggle against museum experts to become a cultural authority. Previously overlooked as a pest with a dubious collection, this book uses Hilditch to interrogate how far the monumental social, cultural and political changes of the early twentieth century unsettled social and cultural hierarchies and how these hierarchies were

Opportunities and Prospect focuses on current planning and design priorities and opportunities for the enhancement of future urban landscape contexts

The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain explores how medieval people responded to images

art and narratives of home in France argues for a cultural

Its examination reveals that while these organisations propagandise on the basis of widespread anti-capitalist sentiments

though it went on to be controversial and disruptive nonetheless

from the lives and professional culture of performers and impresarios to the place of music hall in Scottish life

This book adopts a holistic interpretation of information architecture

reworked and translated today

The War of the Worlds is told in a lucid

Liberta Passley is unable to feel satisfied

this volume offers consolidation

causing them to remain poor and underprivileged in the United States