The Shi'ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists
Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab
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The complex history of Lebanese Shi'ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and...
The Stadium Century: Sport, Spectatorship and Mass Society in Modern France
Maire Cross, Robert W. Lewis and David Hopkin
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The stadium century traces the history of stadia and mass spectatorship in modern France from the...
The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr
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Though he was a hero of the Revolutionary War, a prominent New York politician, and vice president...
Museum Without Walls
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Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty years constructing...
Asger Jorn
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This colourfully illustrated book gives a broad introduction to the life and work of Asger Jorn, one...
Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art
Leah Dickerman and Anna Indych-Lopez
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In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition,...
Face: Shape and Angle: Helen Muspratt, Photographer
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Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member...
Landscapes: John Berger on Art
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As leading radical writer on art John Berger celebrates his ninetieth year, he brings a lifetime's...
Pretentiousness: Why it Matters
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What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a...