Pamela Williams: Longing

Light, airy, rooms...clean-lined wooden furnishings...richly patterned rugs and fabrics in colors inspired by nature. William Morris was the first to champion the styles that remain quintessentially modern today. William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Home is both a profile of this innovative tastemaker and a lavishly illustrated guide to ...more

Modern Tragedy, first published in 1966, is a study of the ideas and ideologies which have influenced the production and analysis of tragedy. Williams sees tragedy both in terms of literary tradition and in relation to the tragedies of modern society, of revolution and disorder, and of individual experience. Modern ...more

A lavish selection of nearly 250 works from the Farnsworth Museum's permanent collection. ...more

Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in the cradle forever, said Russian rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovksy in 1899; his words introduce this lavish and exhilarating vision of the time when man will not merely explore space, but actually live there. In text, photographs, and nearly 100 ...more

A biography profiling the life and the work of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Includes source notes and timeline. ...more

Many indigenous American languages face imminent extinction, and the dictionary, often the only written documentation of these languages, stands as a powerful tool in preserving them. These essays, written by leading scholars in Native American language studies, provide a comprehensive picture of the theory and practice of Native American lexicography. ...more

Beautifully illustrated with 40 four-color and 85 black-and-white full-page plates, this finely crafted volume is the first book in English devoted entirely to the drawings and watercolors of German Romantic artists, including Caspar David Friedrich, Philipp Otto Runge, and Adolph von Menzel. Published to coincide with a landmark exhibition at ...more