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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2011)
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Shamanism-the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge-has been an important part of life for indigenous societies throughout the Americas from prehistoric ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2011)
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Since mid-2006, Maurice Sherif has been photographing segments of the U.S.-Mexico border wall from the American side and questioning how the United States-which sees itself as a champion of law, democracy, and human rights-came to ...
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SILVANA (2011)
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Le renouveau de l'idée missionnaire du début du 19ème siècle avait conduit à la fondation de l'oeuvre de la Propagation de la Foi : les missions suscitaient alors de plus en plus la ferveur de ...
BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS (2011)
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Colonial Spanish bureaucracy produced masses of "autobiographical" texts ('relaciones de méritos and servicios') which forced/invited individuals to present themselves as perfect subjects of the King in order to be rewarded. Bureaucracy produced the officials of ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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How have artists across the millennia responded to warfare? In this uniquely wide-ranging book, Theodore Rabb blends military history and the history of art to search for the answers. He draws our attention to masterpieces ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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The Greek-American artist Kosta Alex (1925-2005) initially trained in figure sculpture in Manhattan. In 1947 he moved to Paris, where he mingled with and exhibited alongside the avant-garde artists of his day. His interest in ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is acknowledged as one of the greatest draftsmen of the 20th century. "Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921" follows the dazzling development of his drawing practice from the precocious academic exercises of his youth to ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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The Koran uses the phrase 'and diverse are their hues' to describe the glorious chromatic variety of God's creation. Colour has always been an important signifier in Islamic art, and its uses have encompassed the ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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William Nicholson is among the most admired yet elusive painters in British art. Neither academic nor overtly modernist, his ravishing paintings are a singular achievement of the early twentieth century.
Nicholson made his name ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art - the radically innovative decade of the 1860s. This book explores new developments in English painting of ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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The 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was an astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an artist over the course of his long career. This catalogue investigates his sharp wit, ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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Contested Visions offers a comparative view of the two principal vice royalties of Spanish America: Mexico and Peru. Spanning developments from the 15th to the 19th century, this ambitious book looks at the many ways ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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The enigmatic and charismatic John Graham (1886-1961) was an important influence on his fellow New York artists between the 1920s and the 1940s. Graham and his circle, which included Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, and Willem ...
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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"Unspeakable Violence addresses the epistemic and physical violence inflicted on racialized and gendered subjects in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Arguing that this violence was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, ...
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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"In People of Faith, Mariza de Carvalho Soares reconstructs the everyday lives of Mina slaves transported in the eighteenth century to Rio de Janeiro from the western coast of Africa, particularly from modern-day Benin. She ...
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SKIRA (2011)
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The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, located in Buffalo, New York, houses one of the world's most extraordinary collections of contemporary and modern art, including works by well-known masters such as Francis Bacon, Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Gauguin, ...
ARTISAN (2011)
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As every great hostess knows, the right dinner plates bring design, color, and drama to the table and elevate an ordinary meal into something special. Dish is a visual celebration of these everyday pieces of ...
TAMESIS (2011)
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Hagiography was one of the most prolific narrative genres in the Middle Ages. Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend (c. 1260), the most popular compendium, was translated into every language in Western Europe. In the medieval ...
ASHGATE (2011)
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Sculpture and the Museum is the first in-depth examination of the varying roles and meanings assigned to sculpture in museums and galleries during the modern period, from neo-classical to contemporary art practice. It considers a ...