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“And that’s true too”
New Essays on King Lear
Provocative new essays re-examine King Lear through the lens of early modern desire, sexuality, and gender, offering fresh philosophical and aesthetic insights into Shakespeare's elusive and powerful tragedy.
Provocative new essays re-examine King Lear through the lens of early modern desire, sexuality, and gender, offering fresh philosophical and aesthetic insights into Shakespeare’s elusive and powerful tragedy.
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War, Human Dignity and Nation Building
Theological Perspectives on Canada’s Role in Afghanistan
Canada’s longest conflict, the Afghan Mission, is a watershed moment with immense costs, yet it remains little scrutinized by faith communities. This volume is the first to bring together theologians, politicians, and academics to dialogue on its impact.
Canada’s longest conflict, the Afghan Mission, is a watershed moment with immense costs, yet it remains little scrutinized by faith communities. This volume is the first to bring together theologians, politicians, and academics to dialogue on its impact.
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Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.
Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.
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Feminisms is Still Our Name
Seven Essays on Historiography and Curatorial Practices
This anthology critically debates the current status of feminisms in visual art. Essays by leading scholars connect past art histories to possible feminist futures, initiating a needed debate on strategies for renewing feminisms in art history and curating.
This anthology critically debates the current status of feminisms in visual art. Essays by leading scholars connect past art histories to possible feminist futures, initiating a needed debate on strategies for renewing feminisms in art history and curating.
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Telling Stories
Countering Narrative in Art, Theory and Film
Trespassing disciplines to bind practice and theory, this collection addresses the contemporary preoccupation with narrative. It considers how visual and performative encounters in photography, film, and objects can contribute to thinking and ask: how might they tell theories?
Trespassing disciplines to bind practice and theory, this collection addresses the contemporary preoccupation with narrative. It considers how visual and performative encounters in photography, film, and objects can contribute to thinking and ask: how might they tell theories?
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In a phantasmagoric trial, Alfred Dreyfus was called a “zinc puppet.” This book reveals the man behind the enigma: his concealed Jewish identity, the love it inspired, and the Court Martial as a fin de siècle horror fantasy.
In a phantasmagoric trial, Alfred Dreyfus was called a “zinc puppet.” This book reveals the man behind the enigma: his concealed Jewish identity, the love it inspired, and the Court Martial as a fin de siècle horror fantasy.
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Grace Crowley was a leading innovator of geometric abstraction in Australia. After studying in Paris, she returned to become a crucial influence on Australian abstraction. Though undervalued in her time, she is now one of the most important women artists of her generation.
Grace Crowley was a leading innovator of geometric abstraction in Australia. After studying in Paris, she returned to become a crucial influence on Australian abstraction. Though undervalued in her time, she is now one of the most important women artists of her generation.
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The Avant-Garde and the Margin
New Territories of Modernism
This collection refigures the modernist avant-garde by exploring relations between its “centers” and the cultural “periphery.” The essays offer new methodological approaches that avoid Eurocentric models in favor of a “hermeneutics of encounter.”
This collection refigures the modernist avant-garde by exploring relations between its “centers” and the cultural “periphery.” The essays offer new methodological approaches that avoid Eurocentric models in favor of a “hermeneutics of encounter.”
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Alternatives Within the Mainstream
British Black and Asian Theatres
Alternatives Within the Mainstream is the first comprehensive collection of critical essays on British Black and Asian Theatres. This long overdue book challenges the culture of myth which obscures the relevance of Black and Asian work with serious academic analysis.
Alternatives Within the Mainstream is the first comprehensive collection of critical essays on British Black and Asian Theatres. This long overdue book challenges the culture of myth which obscures the relevance of Black and Asian work with serious academic analysis.
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Design and Cinema
Form Follows Film
Design and Cinema: Form Follows Film explores the patterns of experience created by the brotherhood of these disciplines. The book is organized in two parts: Discourse, a look at formal categories, and Works, which presents films and workshop examples.
Design and Cinema: Form Follows Film explores the patterns of experience created by the brotherhood of these disciplines. The book is organized in two parts: Discourse, a look at formal categories, and Works, which presents films and workshop examples.
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Films With Legs
Crossing Borders with Foreign Language Films
This book explores how international cinema both erects and tears down borders. It examines how borders are constructed on screen—not just in fences and walls, but also in dialogue, dialect, and even silence.
This book explores how international cinema both erects and tears down borders. It examines how borders are constructed on screen—not just in fences and walls, but also in dialogue, dialect, and even silence.
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Sensorium
Aesthetics, Art, Life
This book reconfigures art and philosophy by returning to an older meaning of aesthetics: our capacity to receive sensations. Following Deleuze and Lyotard, it frames artists as experimenters with the sensible who extend our perceptual interface with the world.
This book reconfigures art and philosophy by returning to an older meaning of aesthetics: our capacity to receive sensations. Following Deleuze and Lyotard, it frames artists as experimenters with the sensible who extend our perceptual interface with the world.
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Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe
Between Utopia and Nihilism
This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe's last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.
This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe’s last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.
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This book explores A. S. Byatt's visual and verbal still lifes. It shows how her rich descriptions celebrate realism, textual pleasure, and sexuality, while also revealing character and class, and teasing out the tension between living passion and "cold" artwork.
This book explores A. S. Byatt’s visual and verbal still lifes. It shows how her rich descriptions celebrate realism, textual pleasure, and sexuality, while also revealing character and class, and teasing out the tension between living passion and “cold” artwork.
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Evolution and I discusses and sheds light on human knowledge and evolution from a range of perspectives including morals and ethics, sex and gender, religion, artificial intelligence, and microorganisms, with often surprising conclusions illuminating who we are as humans.
Evolution and I discusses and sheds light on human knowledge and evolution from a range of perspectives including morals and ethics, sex and gender, religion, artificial intelligence, and microorganisms, with often surprising conclusions illuminating who we are as humans.
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Design Directions
The Relationship Between Humans and Technology
This book explores how designers and researchers respond to the changing relationship between humans and technology. It presents diverse approaches, from theoretical explorations to practical methods, on topics like emotions, education, and transforming environments.
This book explores how designers and researchers respond to the changing relationship between humans and technology. It presents diverse approaches, from theoretical explorations to practical methods, on topics like emotions, education, and transforming environments.
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Visual Conflicts
On the Formation of Political Memory in the History of Art and Visual Cultures
This collection of essays explores how visual cultures engage with armed conflict and violence. Each author considers how visual representations of conflict across various media—from painting to photography—shape the meanings of events, identity, and memory.
This collection of essays explores how visual cultures engage with armed conflict and violence. Each author considers how visual representations of conflict across various media—from painting to photography—shape the meanings of events, identity, and memory.
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Heroes, Monsters and Values
Science Fiction Films of the 1970s
This anthology of essays on 1970s sci-fi films from Alien to Zardoz explores what it means to be human. Challenging our ideas on heroism, technology, and morality, this is an enlightening work for science fiction and film enthusiasts.
This anthology of essays on 1970s sci-fi films from Alien to Zardoz explores what it means to be human. Challenging our ideas on heroism, technology, and morality, this is an enlightening work for science fiction and film enthusiasts.
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How do great works of art live on long after their cultures have vanished? This book rejects the idea that art is simply timeless. It argues that art transcends time through a process of metamorphosis, posing a major challenge to traditional aesthetics.
How do great works of art live on long after their cultures have vanished? This book rejects the idea that art is simply timeless. It argues that art transcends time through a process of metamorphosis, posing a major challenge to traditional aesthetics.
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These essays explore theatre as a spiritual practice rooted in action and breathing. Performance can shift consciousness for both performer and audience, with healing effects that engage deeper levels of imagination where dualities disappear.
These essays explore theatre as a spiritual practice rooted in action and breathing. Performance can shift consciousness for both performer and audience, with healing effects that engage deeper levels of imagination where dualities disappear.
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