The well-researched and richly detailed texts in this book delve into the complexities of early paper photography in the United States from the 1840s to 1860s

David Gilks is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary College

2007―the first major exhibition in the United States solely devoted to ancient mosaics

and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

this lively autobiography introduces the famed tycoon to a new generation of readers

The Book on the Floor: André Malraux and the Imaginary Museum photography The well-researched and richly detailedWalter Grasskamp In 1954, the French writer, politician, and publisher Andr Malraux (19011976) posed at home for a photographer from the magazine Paris Match, surrounded by pages from his forthcoming book Le muse imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale. The enchanting metaphor of the muse imaginaire (imaginary museum) was built upon that illustrated art book, and Malraux was one of its greatest champions. Drawing on a range of contemporary publications,