Florence: A Walking Guide to its Architecture
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Each year, millions of visitors travel to Florence to admire the architectural marvels of this...
Public Enquiries: Park Lek and the Scandinavian Social Turn
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Public Enquiries is the culmination of a multidisciplinary research project that operated through a...
Races to Modernity: Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890 - 1940
Jan C. Behrends and Martin Kohlrausch
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The comparative presentation of the birth of metropolises like St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Kiev,...
The Colonial Heritage of French Comics
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Although France has changed much in recent decades, colonial-era imagery continues to circulate...
The Extended Self: Architecture, Memes and Minds
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In his wide-ranging study of architecture and cultural evolution, Chris Abel argues that, despite...
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...