Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam
Alain George and Andrew Marsham
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When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death of the Prophet...
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History
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Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city...
Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon: Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry
Michael Squire and Avi S. Lifschitz
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder uber die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie...
Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama Across the Reformation Divide
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Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship...
Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media
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What is the place of materiality the expression or condition of physical substance in our visual age...
The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight
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The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight tells the remarkable...
Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science
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Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark,...
Wise Trees
Diane Cook, Len Jenshel and Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees--a stunning...
Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
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In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details,...
Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored
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This is the definitive autobiography of John Lydon, one of the most recognizable icons in the annals...