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Art and Architecture
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The Lost Carving: a journey to the heart of making
An inspired reflection on creativity and achievement by one of the world's most renowned artisans. Read more...
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Digital Rock Art from prehistoric Europe: heritage, film archaeology - the catalogue accompanying the exhibition showing at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology until 23 March 2013. Read more...
Cambridge in Concrete
Images from the RIBA British Architectural Library Photographs Collection, edited by Dr Marco Iuliano and Professor Francois Penz from the University's Department of Architecture. Read more...
Love, Mortality and the Moving Image
In their use of home movies, collages of photographs and live footage, moving image artists explore the wish to see dead loved ones living. This study closely explores emotions and sensations surrounding mortality and longing, with new readings of works by Agnes Varda, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Sophie Calle, and many others. Read more...
The Art Thief
The disappearance of a priceless Caravaggio in Rome and the famous 'White on White' by Russian painter Kasimir Malevich in Paris heralds the start of a series of seemingly unconnected art crimes across Europe. Read more...
The Thefts of the Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait, called the Mona Lisa, is without doubt the world’s most famous painting. Read more...
Art & Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World
Through the use of case examples and careful examination, this book presents the first interdisciplinary essay collection on the study of art crime, and its effect on all aspects of the art world. Read more...
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: the True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece
From the author of the bestselling novel The Art Thief, this gripping true-crime thriller traces the gripping, six-century history of the world's most-stolen masterpiece. Read more...
Man Ray Lee Miller
Bringing together unique and rarely seen photographs, paintings, sculpture and drawings, this exquisite book tells the story of the tumultuous relationship between the artists Man Ray (1890–1976) and Lee Miller (1907–1977). Read more...
Nova Cantabrigiensis
Nova Cantabrigiensis is a utopian island in the middle of the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia. Read more...
Western Illuminated Manuscripts
Cambridge University Library's collection of illuminated manuscripts is of international significance. It originates in the medieval university and stands alongside the holdings of the colleges and the Fitzwilliam Museum. Read more...
The Art of the Body
The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Read more...
The Making of the British Landscape
This is the changing story of Britain from prehistory to the present day, as it has been preserved in our fields, farms, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. Read more...
Rome Across Time and Space
Medieval Rome was uniquely important, both as a physical city and as an idea with immense cultural capital, encapsulating the legacy of the ancient Empire, the glorious world of the martyrs and the triumph of Christian faith. Read more...
Pevsner - The Early Life: Germany and Art
Nikolaus Pevsner was the best known and most important architectural historian of the twentieth century, admired for dedicating his career to areas of English architecture that had never been considered before. Read more...
Architecture in Cambridge
First published in 1942, Theodore Fyfe’s book on Cambridge architecture was written to ‘enable the visitor to Cambridge to realise the value of the Town and University for illustrating the sequence of styles in English architecture’. Read more...
