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Consuming PaintingFood and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris
In Consuming Painting, Allison Deutsch challenges the pervasive view that Impressionism was above all about visual experience. Focusing on the language of food and consumption as they were used by such prominent critics as Baudelaire and Zola, she writes new histories for familiar works by Manet, Monet, Caillebotte, and Pissarro and creates fresh possibilities for experiencing and interpreting …
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Prints of a New KindPolitical Caricature in the United States, 1789–1828
Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and opinions with their audiences in shockingly radical ways. Complementing studies on British and European printmaking, this book is a survey and catalogue of all known American political caricatures created in the country's transformative early years, a…
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Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form
This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of experimental science and ultimately foreshadowed twentieth-century modernist practices. Looking at avant-garde figures such as Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch, Allison Morehead considers the conjunction of art making and experimental…
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Che cosa muove la culturaImpatti, misure e racconti tra economia e immaginario
Da almeno quarant'anni sulla comunità degli operatori culturali e artistici grava un dilemma: da una parte sembra che il riconoscimento pubblico del valore intrinseco delle loro attività diminuisca di giorno in giorno; dall'altra consenso, sostegno e risorse dipendono sempre più dalla loro capacità di documentare – possibilmente attraverso numeri – il valore strumentale di quelle attivi…
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Precious beyond MeasureA History of Korean Ceramics
An illustrated history of Korean ceramics from ancient origins to today. This book is a captivating, richly illustrated history of fired clay in Korea, spanning ancient times to the present day. Drawing on the latest research, this book features a wide range of examples from archaeological sites and museums. In addition, it offers a rare glimpse into the world of modern North Korean ceramics. T…
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The Pub Lover's Guide to London
From the Roman conquest to the passing of legislation protecting the rights of LGBTQ+, the history of London is one of diversity, integration and progress - never standing still and always setting the agenda. Metropolitan London has around 7, 000 public houses – an average of 25 pubs per square mile. No other capital city in the world matches this density. It's not surprising that the London …
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Proper Healthy80 plant-based recipes with a boost
Easy, healthy dishes that just so happen to be plant-based. Each of the recipes in this book come with up to four health 'boosts' to meet your dietary needs: * ENERGY * GUT HEALTH * PROTEIN-PACKED * SHAPE-UP Eating healthy means missing out on the food you love, right? Wrong. If you’re looking for a no-nonsense way to eat well, then Proper Healthy has you covered. Calum Harris has …
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Remates culinários
Remates culinários reúne vários ensaios independentes, quase todos inéditos, à maneira de um puzzle, aos quais o autor Carlos Alberto Dória dedicou os últimos anos em sua compilação. Os textos gravitam em torno da história culinária do Brasil, o que lhes empresta certa unidade, embora não os tenha concebido inicialmente como uma totalidade. Ele aborda questões persistentes ao longo…
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Soviet SalvageImperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism
In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected "elitist" media and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life. Applying anthropological models borrowed from Claude Lévi-Strauss, Walworth shows that his mythmaker typologies—the "engineer" and "bricoleur"—illust…
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Renaissance FuturitiesScience, Art, Invention
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available throughLuminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.org [http://www.luminosoa.org]to learn more. Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villase&n…
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