
Bharti Kher: Matter
Daina Augaitis and Diana Freundl
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Bharti Kher is a contemporary Indian artist whose work encompasses painting, sculpture and...

Golden Kingdoms - Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas
Joanne Pillsbury, Timothy Potts and Kim N. Richter
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This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring some three hundred works of...

Modern Art in Detail: 75 Masterpieces
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Great works of art cannot be fully understood in a single encounter. This is perhaps even truer for...

Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
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A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year...

Portrayal: and the Search for Identity
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We are surrounded by portraits: from the cipher-like portrait of a queen on a bank note to security...

Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region
Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink, Kristen Sharp and Linda Williams
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Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This...

Stanley Spencer: Art as a Mirror of Himself
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Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) explored fundamental issues of life with an urgency and persistence...
The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico
Claudia Brittenham and Maria Teresa Uriarte
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Between AD 650 and 950, artists at the small Central Mexican city-state of Cacaxtla covered the...

A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab: Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863-1948
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"Memoirs of a Life in Punjab" is the autobiography of Ruchi Ram Sahni which offers a rich tapestry...

An Autobiography: And Other Writings
Anthony Trollope and Nicholas Shrimpton
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This classic study of the working life of a professional writer is one of the best - and also one of...