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  • Clothing, A historical Consideration

    by Edward Jackson Lowell ...
    Clothing, A Historical Consideration traces the history of clothing in the western world from the Greeks to the high fashions of the late 19th century. A good brief survey of the subject. ... Read more

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    Imagine one of history's master artists placing hidden images in his paintings and never telling anyone he did so. Then imagine that no one noticed these hidden images for nearly a century after hes death. Now imagine that a best-selling author has written a truly groundbreaking and endlessly fascinating book documtning those hidden images. The artist is Pierre-August Renoir. The author is Donald ... Read more

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  • Radical Cities

    Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

    by Justin McGuirk ...
    What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.Ever since the mid ... Read more

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  • Still Moving

    Between Cinema and Photography

    by Tom Gunning, Timothy Corrigan ...
    In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical concern for scholars in the field of cinema studies responding to new media technologies, and for those in the field of art history confronting the ubiquity of film, video, and the projected image in ... Read more

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  • Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art

    by Gay Robins ...
    This study of ancient Egyptian art reveals the evolution of aesthetic approaches to proportion and style through the ages.The painted and relief-cut walls of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record an amazing continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3,000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems unchanging, but this appearance is deceptive. In this work, Gay Robins offers ... Read more

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  • David's Sling

    A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art

    by Ph.D. Victoria C. Gardner Coates ...
    Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the enduring appeal of these works-from the Parthenon to Michelangelo’s David to Picasso’s Guernica-histories of both art and democracy have ignored this phenomenon. Millions have admired the artworks covered in ... Read more

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  • Ravilious & Co.

    The Pattern of Friendship

    by Andy Friend ...
    A dynamic tale of art and friendship, set between the World Wars, against the backdrop of a rapidly changing worldEric Ravilious is one of the best-known twentieth-century English artists. For many, his watercolors capture the spirit of midcentury England. But while he had a style of his own, he did not work in isolation; he worked within a network of artists that included fellow students at the ... Read more

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  • Why Art Photography?

    by Lucy Soutter ...
    The second edition of Why Art Photography? is an updated, expanded introduction to the ideas behind today’s striking photographic images. Lively, accessible discussions of key issues such as ambiguity, objectivity, fiction, authenticity, and photography’s expanding field are supplemented with new material around timely topics such as globalization, selfie culture, and photographers’ use of ... Read more

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  • Disarmed

    The Story of the Venus de Milo

    by Gregory Curtis ...
    In the spring of 1820, on the Aegean island of Melos, an unsuspecting farmer was digging for marble building blocks when he unearthed the statue that would come to be known as the Venus de Milo. From the moment of its discovery a battle for possession ensued and was won, eventually, by the French. Touted by her keepers in the Louvre as the great classical find of the era, the sculpture gained ... Read more

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  • Doing Research in Design

    by Christopher Crouch, Jane Pearce ...
    Doing Research in Design presents new ways of thinking about the relationship between design and research by positioning design as a social as well as a material practice. This approach emphasises the social consequences of design decisions as well as the importance of the efficient functioning of a design.Doing Research in Design argues that design promotes social change and that, in order to ... Read more

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  • Capacity

    The History, the World, and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism

    by Thomas McEvilley ...
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  • Light Touches

    Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900

    by Alice Barnaby ...
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    Light Touches: Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900 explores how urban lives in the nineteenth century were increasingly touched by innovations in the technologies and aesthetics of illumination. Dramatic changes in qualities of light – and darkness – became acutely palpable to the human sensorium; using, seeing, feeling, and being in light were now matters of intense personal and ... Read more

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