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...
Embracing Cuba
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Intrigued by tales of his parents' long-ago journey to the pre-revolutionary "Pearl of the...
Folk Art and Aging: Life-Story Objects and Their Makers
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Growing old doesn't have to be seen as an eventual failure but rather as an important developmental...
Hotel Mexico: Dwelling on the '68 Movement
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In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports...
How Pictures Complete Us: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine
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Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and...
Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965
John Elderfield, Jeffrey Weiss, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Robert Morris
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Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is one of the most significant figures in the history of postwar art. His...