num_pages: 368
description: A remarkable collection of over five hundred images Affinities is a carefully curated visual journey illuminating connections across more than two thousand years of image-making. Drawing on a decade of archival immersion at The Public Domain Review an online journal and not-for- profit project dedicated to exploring curious and compelling works from the history of art literature and ideas this volume has been assembled from a vast array of sources: from manuscripts to museum catalogs and ship logs to primers on Victorian magic. The images are arranged in a single captivating sequence that unfurls according to a dreamlike logic through a play of visual echoes and evolving thematic threadshatching eggs paired with early Burmese world maps marbled endpapers meet tattooed stowaways and fireworks explode beside deep sea coral.At once an art book a sourcebook and a kaleidoscopic visual poem Affinities is a unique and enthralling publication that will offer something different on each visit. A compelling art object and visual experience in its own right this collection provides a launchpad for further exploration and inventive engagement across all forms of visual culture and expression. 
language: English
title: Affinities: A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review
publisher: Thames & Hudson