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Art and Anatomy in Nineteenth Century Britain
Three Studies
In early 19th-century Britain, art and science collided. Artists studied dissection to capture life, while anatomists learned to draw for accuracy. This book uncovers their mutual dependence and how anatomical truth became a measure of beauty, through three pioneering figures.
In early 19th-century Britain, art and science collided. Artists studied dissection to capture life, while anatomists learned to draw for accuracy. This book uncovers their mutual dependence and how anatomical truth became a measure of beauty, through three pioneering figures.
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Cinema and Intermediality
The Passion for the In-Between
This book investigates what the “inter-” of “intermediality” entails in cinema. Essays explore how film positions itself “in-between” media and arts through analyses of directors like Hitchcock, Antonioni, Godard, and Varda.
This book investigates what the “inter-” of “intermediality” entails in cinema. Essays explore how film positions itself “in-between” media and arts through analyses of directors like Hitchcock, Antonioni, Godard, and Varda.
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This book explores Henry van de Velde’s German period (1900-1916) through his writings and major works, including his unpublished manuscript on ornament. The study casts light on this major figure's aesthetic theory, centered on themes of “rational conception” and “empathy”.
This book explores Henry van de Velde’s German period (1900-1916) through his writings and major works, including his unpublished manuscript on ornament. The study casts light on this major figure’s aesthetic theory, centered on themes of “rational conception” and “empathy”.
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Staging and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century France
Appearing, Revealing, Disappearing
In nineteenth-century France, staging was more than theatre. It was a process of appearing and disappearing that shaped how individuals were seen in the visual arts and culture. This book explores staging’s mechanisms, repercussions, and what it chose not to show.
In nineteenth-century France, staging was more than theatre. It was a process of appearing and disappearing that shaped how individuals were seen in the visual arts and culture. This book explores staging’s mechanisms, repercussions, and what it chose not to show.
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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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Complex Art Conservation and Preservation Problems
A Case Study on the Work of Egon Schiele
For the first time, this book examines Egon Schiele’s painting technique through his 1918 work, “Stadtende/Häuserbogen III.” A conservation campaign uncovered hidden portrait sketches, unmasked a forged signature, and identified the original frame, guiding future preservation.
For the first time, this book examines Egon Schiele’s painting technique through his 1918 work, “Stadtende/Häuserbogen III.” A conservation campaign uncovered hidden portrait sketches, unmasked a forged signature, and identified the original frame, guiding future preservation.
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Architecture and Royal Presence
Domenico and Giulio Cesare Fontana in Spanish Naples (1592-1627)
This book offers an interpretation of Spanish architectural patronage in Naples. Focusing on architects Domenico Fontana and his son Giulio Cesare, it shows how Naples participated in the imperial program and explains the delayed flowering of its Baroque architecture.
This book offers an interpretation of Spanish architectural patronage in Naples. Focusing on architects Domenico Fontana and his son Giulio Cesare, it shows how Naples participated in the imperial program and explains the delayed flowering of its Baroque architecture.
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The Ravenclaw Chronicles
Reflections from Edinboro
What if there is much more to the Harry Potter saga than a simple tale? The Ravenclaw Chronicles collects select articles from academic conferences discussing the story's intellectual and ethical issues from diverse perspectives like philosophy and history.
What if there is much more to the Harry Potter saga than a simple tale? The Ravenclaw Chronicles collects select articles from academic conferences discussing the story’s intellectual and ethical issues from diverse perspectives like philosophy and history.
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Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema
The Allegory of the Motionless Traveler
This book reflects upon the crisis and recovery of utopia, from classic Greece to the neoliberal era in Latin America. Using decolonialist theory, it contributes a new model of analysis for Latin American cinema: “the allegory of the motionless traveler.”
This book reflects upon the crisis and recovery of utopia, from classic Greece to the neoliberal era in Latin America. Using decolonialist theory, it contributes a new model of analysis for Latin American cinema: “the allegory of the motionless traveler.”
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Ambiguous Selves
Contesting Gender Binaries in Literature, Film and the Media
This collection of essays on literature, film, and media contests binary thinking on gender and sexuality. Celebrating difference and deviance, these texts subvert assumed norms, revel in the fluid self, and blur the lines that separate the normal from the abnormal.
This collection of essays on literature, film, and media contests binary thinking on gender and sexuality. Celebrating difference and deviance, these texts subvert assumed norms, revel in the fluid self, and blur the lines that separate the normal from the abnormal.
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Visualizing Rituals
Critical Analysis of Art and Ritual Practice
The essays in this compilation examine the dynamic relationship between art and ritual. Drawing from art historical and theoretical discourses, these papers seek new ways of defining both, with topics ranging from Ancient Greek temples to the art of Kahinde Wiley.
The essays in this compilation examine the dynamic relationship between art and ritual. Drawing from art historical and theoretical discourses, these papers seek new ways of defining both, with topics ranging from Ancient Greek temples to the art of Kahinde Wiley.
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Lee Miller’s Surrealist Eye
New Insights
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
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This collection of papers examines circus history, life, the relationship of circus to society, and its impact on the arts. "This fascinating collection showcases the cultural depth of the circus in historical and contemporary settings." —Janet M. Davis
This collection of papers examines circus history, life, the relationship of circus to society, and its impact on the arts. “This fascinating collection showcases the cultural depth of the circus in historical and contemporary settings.” —Janet M. Davis
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Art Writing Online
The State of the Art World
These reviews of art exhibitions tackle institutional critique, race, and class. The book argues that the critic’s role is to create a community for debate, noting that moments of crisis bring conflicts to the surface and make radical change thinkable.
These reviews of art exhibitions tackle institutional critique, race, and class. The book argues that the critic’s role is to create a community for debate, noting that moments of crisis bring conflicts to the surface and make radical change thinkable.
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Forms of Experienced Environments
Questioning Relations between Humans, Aesthetics, and Sciences
Going beyond policies focused on control, this book explores our world through ‘environmental forms’. This largely neglected, form-based approach opens a new perspective on the relationships between people, aesthetics, and environments.
Going beyond policies focused on control, this book explores our world through ‘environmental forms’. This largely neglected, form-based approach opens a new perspective on the relationships between people, aesthetics, and environments.
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Jean Delville
Art between Nature and the Absolute
This is the first full-length study of Jean Delville, a leader of Idealist Art. Like Kandinsky and Mondrian, his paintings and writings drew on esoteric philosophy to connect the physical world with a higher, spiritual reality.
This is the first full-length study of Jean Delville, a leader of Idealist Art. Like Kandinsky and Mondrian, his paintings and writings drew on esoteric philosophy to connect the physical world with a higher, spiritual reality.
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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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Narrative Rewritings and Artistic Praxis in Derek Walcott’s Works
Caribbean Decolonisations
This book moves beyond Derek Walcott’s Nobel Prize-winning poetry to reveal his fundamental contribution to Caribbean theatre and art. Examining key works as postcolonial re-writings of European stories, it uncovers the strategies Walcott used to respond to colonial power.
This book moves beyond Derek Walcott’s Nobel Prize-winning poetry to reveal his fundamental contribution to Caribbean theatre and art. Examining key works as postcolonial re-writings of European stories, it uncovers the strategies Walcott used to respond to colonial power.
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Cosimo I de’ Medici as Collector
Antiquities and Archaeology in Sixteenth-century Florence
Antiquity collections were manifestations of power. This study explores the collection of Cosimo I de’ Medici, using unpublished sources to reconstruct its display and reveal the political aims behind one of the major princely collections of its time.
Antiquity collections were manifestations of power. This study explores the collection of Cosimo I de’ Medici, using unpublished sources to reconstruct its display and reveal the political aims behind one of the major princely collections of its time.
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Rivals and Conspirators
The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre
This history exposes the rivalry and conflict behind Paris’s rise as the “modern art centre.” It reveals how the most powerful Salons were not the avant-garde, and how a welcoming internationalism gave way to nationalist xenophobia.
This history exposes the rivalry and conflict behind Paris’s rise as the “modern art centre.” It reveals how the most powerful Salons were not the avant-garde, and how a welcoming internationalism gave way to nationalist xenophobia.
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