Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France
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The rise of Modernism, from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, was played...
Machine Art in the Twentieth Century
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"Machine art" is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists...
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern
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A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who...
Robert Simpson -- Composer: Essays, Interviews, Recollections
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Robert Simpson (1921-1997) was a composer whose thinking was sometimes alarmingly uncompromising. In...
The Alexander Scriabin Companion: History, Performance, and Lore
Lincoln Ballard, Matthew Bengston and John Bell Young
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This unique collaboration between a musicologist and two pianists - all experts in Russian music -...
Erik Satie
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A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian gymnopediste of fin-de-siecle...
The Theatre of Death - The Uncanny in Mimesis: Tadeusz Kantor, Aby Warburg, and an Iconology of the Actor: 2016
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This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the...
Ism, Ism, Ism / Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Experimental Cinema in Latin America
Jesse Lerner and Luciano Piazza
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Ism, Ism, Ism / Ismo, Ismo, Ismo is the first comprehensive, United States-based film program and...
The History of European Jazz: The Music, Musicians and Audience in Context
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The increased circulation of people and ideas within Europe is not matched by an awareness of a...
Art and Text
Aimee Selby, Dave Beech, Charles Harrison and Will Hill
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The use of text can be seen in some of the most avant-garde artwork of the twentieth century; Rene...