The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture
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Scholars have long stressed the problem of ornament and expression when considering Viennese...
A History of Virility
Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine, Georges Vigarello and Keith Cohen
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How has the meaning of manhood changed over time? A History of Virility proposes a series of answers...
After 1851: The Material and Visual Cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham
Kate Nichols and Sarah Victoria Turner
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Echoing Joseph Paxton's question at the close of the Great Exhibition, 'What is to become of the...
Almost Nothing: Observations on Precarious Practices in Contemporary Art
Anna Dezeuze, Marsha Meskimmon and Amelia Jones
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What does an assemblage made out of crumpled newspaper have in common with an empty room in which...
Art and Truth After Plato
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Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does...
Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities
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Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese...
Berlin Then and Now: Damals Und Heute
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Berlin Then and Now captures the stark contrast between what came before and after the great...
By the Pen and What They Write: Writing in Islamic Art and Culture
Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom
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Considered by Muslims as the only true art, calligraphy has played a prominent role in Islamic...
Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art
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The distinctive style of Japanese art known as Rinpa embraces bold, graphic renderings of natural...
Eccentric Modernisms: Making Differences in the History of American Art
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"What if we ascribe significance to aesthetic and social divergences rather than waving them aside...