Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
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Contemporary art has never been so popular - but what is 'contemporary' about contemporary art? What...
Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance
Marilyn DeLaure, Moritz Fink and Mark Dery
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A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer...
Frida Kahlo
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Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera....
Gendering Modernism: A Historical Reappraisal of the Canon
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Gendering Modernism offers a critical reappraisal of the modernist movement, asking how gender norms...
Michelangelo and the Viewer in His Time
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Today Michelangelo's painting and sculpture is seen most often in museums, while his archi-tectural...
Photo Forensics
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Photographs have been doctored since photography was invented. Dictators have erased people from...
Photography and Africa
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Africa, a land comprising more than fifty nations and innumerable cultural variations, has long been...
Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts: Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe
Kristoffer Neville and Lisa Skogh
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As queen consort and dowager, Hedwig Eleonora (1636-1715) held a unique position in Sweden for more...
The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
Bryan Shih, Yohuru Williams and Peniel E. Joseph
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"Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its...
The Spanish Golden Age: Painting and Sculpture in the Time of Velazquez
Michael Eissenhauer, Berlin Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung and Roger
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The Siglo de Oro, the golden century of Spanish painting, is one of the most fascinating chapters of...