Chess Sets (Collectors' Blue Books)

Art Markets, Agents and Collectors brings together a wide variety of case studies, based on letters and detailed archival research, which nuance the history of the art market and t...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Few clothing items are as ubiquitous or as casual as blue jeans. Yet...

This chapter discusses the notion of action-minimizing orbits. In particular, it defines the other two families of invariant sets, the so-called Aubry and Mañé sets. It explains th...

Is the sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard really the greatest electric guitar ever made? This books aims to answer that question, even if so many players and collectors have already...

“Sumana Chattopadhyay provides a thoughtful and passionate perspective on the busing phenomenon which treated migrants as political pawns in the highly charged debates about US imm...

Abstract The book weaves together a wide range of reactions to Joni Mitchell’s most beloved album, Blue (1971). Critics have ensured its place in a canon of great...

Following the defeat of the League, L’Estoile kept an increasingly detailed record of his collecting activities. This chapter demonstrates how L’Estoile’s responses to the books he...