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  • JOHN HOUSTON

    PACKER, W.

    LUND HUMPHRIES PUBLISHERS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-85331-868-2
    • EAN: 9780853318682
    • Páginas: 96
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.52,00 €

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    A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, John Houston remained closely associated with the college through his role as a teacher: he lectured at Edinburgh from 1955 to 1989. Though dedicated to teaching, Houston remained ...

  • THE DARKER SIDE OF THE RENAISSANCE LITERACY, TERRITORIALITY, & COLONIZATION

    MIGNOLO, WALTER D.

    UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-472-08931-4
    • EAN: 9780472089314
    • Páginas: 480
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.32,00 €

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    The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Exploring the many connections among writing, ...

  • HAUNTED TEXTS : STUDIES IN PRE-RAPHAELITISM

    LATHAM, D.

    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8020-3662-9
    • EAN: 9780802036629
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.72,00 €

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    Begun by young rebels committed to revolutionizing the creative arts, Pre-Raphaelitism has moved from the margins of nineteenth-century art and literature to the vanguard of interdisciplinary studies. The term is now used to denote the ...

  • MYTH, MONTAGE, AND VISUALITY IN LATE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT CULTURE

    DESMOND, M.

    UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-472-11323-1
    • EAN: 9780472113231
    • Páginas: 384
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.83,00 €

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    Medieval manuscript culture organizes reading as a visual experience. early fifteenth-century Paris saw a proliferation of luxury manuscripts whose illuminations situate the reader as spectator. Christine de Pizan understood this visual aspect of medieval texts ...

  • THE GRAVEN IMAGE: REPRESENTATION IN BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA

    BAHRANI, Z.

    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8122-3648-4
    • EAN: 9780812236484
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.67,20 €

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    Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of representation in which the world was saturated with signs. Instead of imitating the natural world, representation--both in writing and in visual images--was thought ...

  • BETWEEN WORLDS: DYBBUKS, EXORCISTS, AND EARLY MODERN JUDAISM

    CHAJES, J. H.

    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8122-3724-5
    • EAN: 9780812237245
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.50,00 €

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    After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as "The Age of the Demoniac," accounts of spirit possession ...

  • THE COLOR OF CLASS: POOR WHITES AND THE PARADOX OF PRIVILEGE

    MOSS, KIRBY

    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8122-1851-0
    • EAN: 9780812218510
    • Páginas: 176
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.23,10 €

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    What is it like to be white, poor, and socially marginalized while, at the same time, surrounded by the glowing assumption of racial privilege? Kirby Moss, an African American anthropologist and journalist, goes back to ...

  • EARLY MODERN SPAIN: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY

    COWANS, J.

    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8122-1845-9
    • EAN: 9780812218459
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.27,00 €

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    Spain as a political entity can be traced to the joining of the two largest Iberian kingdoms through the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1469. Over the course of the ...

  • ESSAY ON GARDENS : A CHAPTER IN THE FRENCH PICTURESQUE

    WATELET, C-H.

    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8122-3722-1
    • EAN: 9780812237221
    • Páginas: 104
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.43,00 €

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    Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of ...

  • MODERN SPAIN: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY

    COWANS, J.

    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8122-1846-6
    • EAN: 9780812218466
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.27,00 €

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    While the Civil War of 1936-39 dominated Spain's twentieth-century history, the country's fateful and bloody division into left and right had its roots in the events of the Napoleonic era. In Modern Spain: A Documentary ...

  • UNDOING EMPIRE: RACE AND NATION IN THE MULATTO CARIBBEAN

    BUSCAGLIA-SALGADO, J. F.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-3574-0
    • EAN: 9780816635740
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.36,00 €

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    This ambitious book brings to light the story of what José F. Buscaglia-Salgado terms mulataje-the ways Caribbean aesthetics offer the possibility of the ultimate erasure of racial difference. Undoing Empire gives a broad panorama stretching ...

  • BRIDGET RILEY

    MOORHOUSE, PAUL

    TATE PUBLISHING (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-85437-492-9
    • EAN: 9781854374929
    • Páginas: 100
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.72,00 €

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    Bridget Riley is one of Britain's most respected artists, with an international reputation. Her distinguished and singular career encompasses forty years of uncompromising and remarkable innovation.
    Riley first attracted critical attention with the dazzling ...

  • HUGHIE O'DONOGHUE:PAINTING, MEMORY, MYTH

    HAMILTON,

    MERRELL HOLBERTON (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-85894-204-9
    • EAN: 9781858942049
    • Páginas: 160
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.62,40 €

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    Contemporary artist Hughie O'Donoghue has long been fascinated by war - not the grand military moments depicted in traditional history painting, but the story of the individual. The starting-point for O'Donoghue has been an engagement ...

  • EXPRESSIONIST FILM -- NEW PERSPECTIVES

    SCHEUNEMANN, D.

    BOYDELL & BREWER (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-571-13068-6
    • EAN: 9781571130686
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.104,00 €

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    This volume of fresh essays by leading scholars develops a new approach to expressionist film. For nearly half a century Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler and Lotte Eisner's The Haunted Screen have shaped the ...

  • DESIGNING WOMEN "CINEMA, ART DECO, AND THE FEMALE FORM"

    FISCHER , LUCY

    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-231-12500-0
    • EAN: 9780231125000
    • Páginas: 352
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.80,00 €

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    The image of Woman is ubiquitous in Art Deco design -in sculptures,pottery, glassware, jewelry, and lamps -but few scholars have focused on this phenomenon. Lucy Fischer argues that Art Deco style became a kind of ...

  • SELLING STYLE: CLOTHING AND SOCIAL CHANGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

    SCHORMAN, R.

    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8122-3728-3
    • EAN: 9780812237283
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.51,00 €

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    "Selling Style is a well-written, interesting, and lively look at the meaning of clothes and American fashion in the 1890s."--Nancy L. Green, author of Ready to Wear and Ready to Work
    As the turn ...

  • THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PEOPLE : DIMENSIONS OF NEOLITHIC LIFE

    WHITTLE, ALASDAIR

    ROUTLEDGE (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-415-30408-5
    • EAN: 9780415304085
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.45,00 €

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    Alasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and current theoretical debate.
    The book ranges from the sixth ...

  • ANCIENT CITIES : THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF URBAN LIFE IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT, GREECE AND ROME

    GATE, CH.

    ROUTLEDGE (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-415-12182-8
    • EAN: 9780415121828
    • Páginas: 352
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.45,00 €

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    Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from an archaeological perspective, in their cultural and historical contexts. It aims to bring to life the physical ...

  • GUIDE TO BRITISH CINEMA

    MAYER, G.

    GREENWOOD PUBLISHING GROUP (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-313-30307-4
    • EAN: 9780313303074
    • Páginas: 464
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.126,00 €

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    Scholarly and popular interest in British cinema has never been stronger, with films ranging from the Merchant/Ivory pictures through Notting Hill finding both critical and commercial success in America. As such, The Guide to British ...

  • ANNUS MIRABILIS?: ART IN THE YEAR 2000

    CORK, RICHARD

    YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2003)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-300-09511-1
    • EAN: 9780300095111
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2003

    pvp.22,50 €

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    Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and best-informed art critics in Britain today. These four volumes contain a selection of his articles from the seventies, eighties, nineties, and the year 2000. ...