A Guide to Contemporary Portraits
Sandy Nairne, Sarah Howgate and Paul Moorhouse
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Authors Sandy Nairne and Sarah Howgate select over fifty contemporary works from the Gallery's...
Art and Contemporaneity
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Art is often said to be timeless, but specific works of art always take place within time and...
Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India
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During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In...
Brenda Chamberlain: Artist & Writer
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The first full-length biography of Brenda Chamberlain chronicles the life of an artist and writer...
Epistemology of Aesthetics
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The ideas of "art as research" and "research as art" have risen over the past two decades as...
Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from le Gray to Monet
Simon Kelly, April M. Watson, Neil McWilliam and Maura Coughlin
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Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished...
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...
Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China
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In this book, Xiaolong Wu offers a comprehensive and in-depth study of the Zhongshan state during...
The Landscape Painting of China: Musings of a Journeyman
Harrie A. Vanderstappen, Jason Steuber and Roger E. Covey
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Chinese landscape painting is not just one of the great arts of China; it is one of the greatest...
The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Difference
Griselda Pollock and Victoria Turvey-Sauron
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The notion of a special intimacy between 'the feminine and the sacred' has received significant...