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The “Nation” in War
A Study of Military Literature and Hindi War Cinema
The Nation in War explores notions of nation and nationalism in Indian military literature and Hindi war cinema. This book examines how these narratives construct the “nation,” create consensus for war, and portray women as national subjects.
The Nation in War explores notions of nation and nationalism in Indian military literature and Hindi war cinema. This book examines how these narratives construct the “nation,” create consensus for war, and portray women as national subjects.
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The “I” and the “Eye”
The Verbal and the Visual in Post-Renaissance Western Aesthetics
Tracing the opposition between verbal and visual arts from Lessing to Greenberg, the author delineates it as a history of diffusions, displacements and idealist reparations of class division.
Tracing the opposition between verbal and visual arts from Lessing to Greenberg, the author delineates it as a history of diffusions, displacements and idealist reparations of class division.
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The 1879 Theft of Royal Ms 16 E VIII from the British Museum
Wars and Tolkien’s Teacher’s Role
In 1879, a priceless manuscript containing the only copy of the oldest French poem vanished from the British Museum. This study explores the intense academic rivalries after the Franco-Prussian War that fueled the theft and provides a reconstruction of the lost text.
In 1879, a priceless manuscript containing the only copy of the oldest French poem vanished from the British Museum. This study explores the intense academic rivalries after the Franco-Prussian War that fueled the theft and provides a reconstruction of the lost text.
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A pioneering engraver, map-maker, and friend to Joseph Wright of Derby. But did Peter Perez Burdett's influence on the great artist end with his emigration in 1774? In his first biography, compelling new evidence suggests their connection was far from over.
A pioneering engraver, map-maker, and friend to Joseph Wright of Derby. But did Peter Perez Burdett’s influence on the great artist end with his emigration in 1774? In his first biography, compelling new evidence suggests their connection was far from over.
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How can aesthetic enquiry contribute to the study of visual culture? The essays in this volume show a variety of points of intersection between aesthetics and visual studies, considering the future of art, aesthetic experience, and representation versus reality.
How can aesthetic enquiry contribute to the study of visual culture? The essays in this volume show a variety of points of intersection between aesthetics and visual studies, considering the future of art, aesthetic experience, and representation versus reality.
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This study challenges paradigms of female representation in enigmatic Renaissance masterpieces. Using female agency as a unifying lens, it interrogates why paintings of figures like Venus and the Madonna were crafted, by whom, and for whom, disrupting long-held assumptions.
This study challenges paradigms of female representation in enigmatic Renaissance masterpieces. Using female agency as a unifying lens, it interrogates why paintings of figures like Venus and the Madonna were crafted, by whom, and for whom, disrupting long-held assumptions.
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The numerous digressions in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia should not be regarded as mistakes. This book's hypothesis is that these anecdotes are intentional. By analyzing them as exempla, their narrative role becomes clear, revealing Pliny’s contested skill as a writer.
The numerous digressions in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia should not be regarded as mistakes. This book’s hypothesis is that these anecdotes are intentional. By analyzing them as exempla, their narrative role becomes clear, revealing Pliny’s contested skill as a writer.
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The Apothecary’s Chest
Magic, Art and Medication
This collection of essays explores the intertwined notions of magic, science, and superstition in figures like the apothecary, alchemist, and shaman. Topics range from the mystical traits of mundane materials to the origins of the occult and the modern poet.
This collection of essays explores the intertwined notions of magic, science, and superstition in figures like the apothecary, alchemist, and shaman. Topics range from the mystical traits of mundane materials to the origins of the occult and the modern poet.
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The Art of Anthonie Palamedes (1602-1673)
With an Attached Oeuvre Catalogue
This is the first complete study of 17th-century Dutch painter Anthonie Palamedes. Unlike his Delft contemporary Vermeer, Palamedes was a success—the embodiment of the thriving artist in the Dutch Golden Age. The book includes a biography, a study of his work, and a catalogue.
This is the first complete study of 17th-century Dutch painter Anthonie Palamedes. Unlike his Delft contemporary Vermeer, Palamedes was a success—the embodiment of the thriving artist in the Dutch Golden Age. The book includes a biography, a study of his work, and a catalogue.
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The Art of Maria Tomasula
Embodiment and Splendor
Maria Tomasula's captivating still lifes contrast luscious beauty with disturbing features like pierced flowers and isolated organs. This first comprehensive monograph unravels her complex iconography, rooted in her Mexican American heritage, Catholicism, and European tradition.
Maria Tomasula’s captivating still lifes contrast luscious beauty with disturbing features like pierced flowers and isolated organs. This first comprehensive monograph unravels her complex iconography, rooted in her Mexican American heritage, Catholicism, and European tradition.
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This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
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The Art of Survival
Depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in Crisis
Offering an examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, this title offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new survival strategies.
Offering an examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, this title offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new survival strategies.
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The Art of the Caveman
The Poetry of Paul Durcan
The first monograph dedicated to the poetry of Paul Durcan, this book deals thematically with the dominant concerns evident throughout his work, arguing that the poet has captured the complexities inherent in Ireland’s emergence from the early, difficult decades of independence.
The first monograph dedicated to the poetry of Paul Durcan, this book deals thematically with the dominant concerns evident throughout his work, arguing that the poet has captured the complexities inherent in Ireland’s emergence from the early, difficult decades of independence.
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The Art of the Real
Visual Studies and New Materialisms
Art of the Real registers the materialist turn in contemporary visual studies. As scholars move beyond post-structuralist theory, this is the first book to treat the new materialism for its meta-theoretical commitments, ontology, and political implications.
Art of the Real registers the materialist turn in contemporary visual studies. As scholars move beyond post-structuralist theory, this is the first book to treat the new materialism for its meta-theoretical commitments, ontology, and political implications.
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The Art of Women in Contemporary China
Both Sides Now
This book presents the work of over 75 Chinese female artists in visual art and poetry. Their work explores the experience of being a woman through themes of the body, home, fantasy, and social conscience. This unique volume pairs poetry with art, articulating shared concerns.
This book presents the work of over 75 Chinese female artists in visual art and poetry. Their work explores the experience of being a woman through themes of the body, home, fantasy, and social conscience. This unique volume pairs poetry with art, articulating shared concerns.
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The Artist as a Dramatic Character
A Critical Study of Plays by Stoppard, Barker and Wertenbaker
This book examines the use of the artist as a veneer to criticise political ruling parties. Using previously unused primary sources, including interviews with three playwrights, it explores this key role over three decades with reference to artists from the Middle East.
This book examines the use of the artist as a veneer to criticise political ruling parties. Using previously unused primary sources, including interviews with three playwrights, it explores this key role over three decades with reference to artists from the Middle East.
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The Arts and Youth at Risk
Global and Local Challenges
"Philosophically complex and pragmatically provocative," this book interrogates arts-based interventions for "at risk" youth. International experts explore the positive outcomes and ethical challenges of working with marginalised communities.
“Philosophically complex and pragmatically provocative,” this book interrogates arts-based interventions for “at risk” youth. International experts explore the positive outcomes and ethical challenges of working with marginalised communities.
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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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The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Grotesque
The Subjective Turn in Aesthetics from the Enlightenment to the Present
This book of essays explores the tension between subjectivity and objectivity from the Enlightenment to the Postmodern world. It focuses on the aesthetic theories of Winkelmann, Hume, and Kant, examining the beautiful, the sublime, and the grotesque.
This book of essays explores the tension between subjectivity and objectivity from the Enlightenment to the Postmodern world. It focuses on the aesthetic theories of Winkelmann, Hume, and Kant, examining the beautiful, the sublime, and the grotesque.
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The Book of Angels
Seen and Unseen
Explore our deep fascination with angels. This illustrated book examines their depiction in art, scripture, and mystical writings across world religions. Discover the visual clues, artistic conventions, and celestial hierarchies that define these vibrant and energised beings.
Explore our deep fascination with angels. This illustrated book examines their depiction in art, scripture, and mystical writings across world religions. Discover the visual clues, artistic conventions, and celestial hierarchies that define these vibrant and energised beings.
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