Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790 Pinxit Mexici
Ilona Katzew and Luisa Elena Alcala
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This stunning volume represents the first serious effort to reposition the history of 18th-century...
Photographic Realism: Late Twentieth-Century Aesthetics
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Photographic realism: Late twentieth-century aesthetics provides an accessible and useful...
Rome Measured and Imagined: Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City
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At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what...
Senses of Landscape
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Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to...
The Ecstasy of St. Kara: Kara Walker, New Work
Kara Walker, Reto Thuring, Beau Rutland and John Lansdowne
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Kara Walker's work astutely examines race, gender, and identity. Walker's newest series of...
The Face of Medicine: Visualising Medical Masculinities in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris
Marsha Meskimmon, Amelia Jones and Mary Hunter
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The face of medicine examines the overlapping worlds of art and medicine in late nineteenth-century...
The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy After Early Modernity
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Philosophers of aesthetics, from Baumgarten to Hegel, paid considerable attention to art and artists...
The Lyon Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins
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This book records, illustrates, and discusses the context of more than 1,000 coins from the...
The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia
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The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface. Comprising thousands of islands and...