Image, text and ideology.

A new interpretation of Poussin's landscapes.

Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behaviour are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics and culture.

An analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world.

Studies the history of the landscape, and aims to explode the myth that the English landscape was 'formed by enclosures'. This book traces the beauty and oddities of the English landscape further back, from pre-Roman times to the seventeenth century and beyond.

This text shows how certain artists tried to cope in the years following the 1848 French revolution. Concentrating on four particular artists who had little in common, the book shows how they were affected by the events of the time, and discovers links between their work and the Second Republic.