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Beyond Blue and WhiteThe Hidden History of Delftware and the Women Behind the…
An engaging work of cultural history that reveals the stories behind one of the world's most coveted and beloved ceramic. When over seventy-five pieces of rare and intriguing 17th and 18th century Delftware are rediscovered in an historic Manhattan townhouse, decorative art advisor and writer Genevieve Wheeler Brown quickly recognizes that, together, these pieces tell an amazing story. What be…
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Good Art/Bad ArtA Guide to Judging Quality
Amanifesto and impassioned plea for artistic excellence When he attended The Cooper Union in the late 1960s, artist Robert Florczak navigated a world of avant-garde experimentation, where modern art reigned supreme. Yet, within this bastion of innovation, and surrounded by cutting-edge, conceptual art, he, along with a few like-minded peers, quietly questioned the legitimacy of the contemporar…
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Matisse in MoroccoA Journey of Light and Color
The remarkable and little-known story of the two groundbreaking winters that Henri Matisse spent painting in Morocco, a fertile period that transformed his art and marked his work until the very end. In winter of 1912, Henri Matisseforty-two, nearing mid-career, and yet to find lasting critical acceptance, public admiration, or financial security since exploding to the forefront of the avant-g…
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Larry Clark and MasculinityMale Subjectivity and Visual Culture
This book explores the visual representation of masculinity in the work of Larry Clark, using this to prompt a wider conversation about the male body in visual culture and art. Infamous for his often deeply personal depictions of teenage sexuality, subcultures and drug use, filmmaker and photographer Larry Clark also paid close attention to male identity, as revealed for the first time in this …
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El templo del convento de San Agustín de San Luis Potosí, 1599-1788: imagin…
La presente obra constituye un esfuerzo por analizar y entender desde diversas vertientes –fundamentalmente a partir de la historia cultural– las representaciones religiosas y el discurso iconográfico que se asociaban al conjunto arquitectónico del templo del convento de San Agustín, erigido en la ciudad de San Luis Potosí a lo largo de los siglos XVII y XVIII. Así, junto con esta valo…
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Who Owns Beauty?
Beauty belongs to no one. But what about the objects that museums celebrate as great works of art: to whom do they belong? Do they belong to the places where they originated? To the cultures whose genius they embody? To the enlightened collectors who saw their value and appropriated them? Or to the whole of humanity which has access to them through institutions dedicated to their preservation? …
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Die Peripherie als ZentrumDer Kunstbetrieb in Rosenheim und dem Chiemgau 1904…
Wie gestaltete sich der Kunstbetrieb in der Provinz im Nationalsozialismus? Dieser Frage geht Felix Steffan in seiner Studie zu Rosenheim und dem Chiemgau nach. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung steht das engmaschige Netzwerk von Akteurinnen und Akteuren, die das Kunstleben der Provinz maßgeblich beeinflussten und formten. Auf der Grundlage umfangreicher Quellenanalysen wird ersichtlich, wie die Reg…
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Assemblages of BelongingMurals, Beadwork, and Ndebele Identity in South Africa
Ndebele material culture in South Africa was appropriated and commodified during the apartheid era. Craniv Boyd traces Ndebele art back to its origins and examines its creation as enduring practices of identity construction and of cultural articulation, placing particular emphasis on mural painting and beadwork. He traces the historical trajectories of these art forms and considers their ongoin…
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The MoorLives Landscape Literature
In this deeply personal journey across our nation's most forbidding and most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue and natural history, and an exploration of moorland's uniquely captivating position in our literature, history and psyche. Atkins may be a solitary wanderer across t…
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Civilising CalibanThe Misuse of Art 1875–1980
'I wrote my thesis because it seemed incredible that a nineteenth century cleric could believe that paintings had the power to civilise his community of London's poorest. Yet that is what he did believe and his ideas were exported round the world. I still don't know whether he was right...' Frances Borzello What is the purpose of art? Aside from aesthetic considerations, does it have socio-poli…
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