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Iris Moon
"Melancholy Wedgwood is an experimental biography that traces multiple strands in the ceramic entrepreneur's life to propose an alternative look at eighteenth-century England's tenuous relationship to our own lives and…
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Curiosity and critique foreground this novel history of porcelain that unravels the cultural myths of Chinoiserie, Europe's fantasy of the East
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Time, media, and visuality are watchwords of modernity across science, culture and the arts. At which point in history, though, did they decisively intersect? Identifying the year 1789 - or…
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Francesca Whitlum-Cooper
The second book in the "Discover" series, this illuminating study explores Liotard's little-known The Lavergne Family Breakfast (1754), widely regarded as a pastel masterpiece
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This book explores how Percier and Fontaine’s desire to build structures of permanence and their inadvertent reliance upon temporary architectural forms shaped a new awareness of time, memory, and modern…
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Antonis Papatheodoulou
Can Impey Barbicane make a cannon that shoots all the way to the moon? Readers find out in this new and exciting retelling of one of Jules Verne's most popular…
Iris Moon (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Explores the production, circulation, and survival of French luxury after the death of Louis XVI by focusing on makers of decorative art objects who had strong ties to the monarchy…
This collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art history offers a new account of the story of French art’s modernity.
Josie Moon
What if you could be strong and grounded like a tree, yet light and free as a bubble? When Iris finds a tree that grows bubbles, she follows them over…
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Iris
At the fork road, The old symphonies lay rotten.An ode to the wailing of none.Hushed whispers of old breeze, Resounded the path, Like the bloody water drowning the sun. Bleed…
Iris Gower
Meryl Jones fears dying in the 1941 Swansea blitz. When her home is bombed Meryl is evacuated to Carmarthen, where she is lodged with Mrs Dixon, and her son George…
Two sisters. Only one can follow their heart.Swansea, 1941. When her home is bombed, Meryl Jones is evacuated to Carmarthen. Hating it there, she runs away.
She is found by…
Irisanya Moon
Iris travels the rainbow to bring messages from the godds and lessons of service to self and others.
Butterfly Typeface Publishing proudly presents Author Ashley Davis’ new series for teens, ‘Moon River Valley’.There has been a tragedy in the quiet, sleepy town of Moon River Valley!With the arrival…
Jules Verne
A picturebook retelling of Jules Verne’s classic story, with stunning illustrations. Younger children too can now enjoy this world of heroic adventure.
Jon E Hart
When Milo and Iris eagerly accept their school assignment to observe and record the Moon's appearance each night for thirty days, little did they know that they would be transported…
Ashley Davis
The small town of Moon Ridge Valley is once again turned upside down by the disappearance of Logan Andrews. Riley Abernathy is more devastated than most. As she attempts to…
Abductions, shootings, and other tragedies plague Moon Ridge Valley relentlessly. Logan Andrews was missing for a year, and Chloe Jacobs was a part of his disappearance. Nonetheless, no one knows…
Published in connection with an exhibition held Nov. 18, 2016-Feb. 5, 2017, Bard Graduate Center Gallery; and Mar. 18-June 19, 2017, Chaateau de Fontainebleau.
Founded in 1968, the Metropolitan Museum Journal is a blind, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually that features original research on the history, interpretation, conservation, and scientific examination of works of…
