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By: Mechthild Fend

ISBN: 9780719087967
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A strong and insightful work which argues that skin is not just any surface an artist can represent, but a highly overdetermined one. Focusing on five French painters - Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoit and Ingres - it spans the fields of history of art and of medicine. -- .


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By: Angela Dimitrakaki

ISBN: 9781784992941
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A theoretically astute overview of key developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s -- .


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By: Dominic Johnson

ISBN: 9780719091476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Glorious catastrophe presents the first detailed critical analysis of the visual art, film, performance and writing of Jack Smith, an icon of the New York avant-garde, from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. It uses his personal papers, and unpublished interviews with friends and collaborators. -- .


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By: Paisid Aramphongphan

ISBN: 9781526182517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Horizontal together is an up-close look at the cultural and political power of the langourous queer body, combining historical research, queer theory and the analysis of bodily gestures. The book presents a dancerly story of 1960s art focusing on Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko.


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By: Paisid Aramphongphan

ISBN: 9781526148438
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Horizontal together is an up-close look at the cultural and political power of the langourous queer body, combining historical research, queer theory and the analysis of bodily gestures. The book presents a dancerly story of 1960s art focusing on Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko.


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By: Jasmina Tumbas

ISBN: 9781526169044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Coining the term Jugoslovenka to designate the unique history of Yugoslav womens resistance to patriarchy during and after socialism, this book shows how Yugoslavias anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies manifest in performance, conceptual, video and activist works.


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By: Jasmina Tumbas

ISBN: 9781526156471
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Coining the term Jugoslovenka to designate the unique history of Yugoslav womens resistance to patriarchy during and after socialism, this book shows how Yugoslavias anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies manifest in performance, conceptual, video and activist works.


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By: Patricia Allmer

ISBN: 9780719096488
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Demonstrates the significant roles taken by women artists within the history of modern and contemporary art, and expands and redefines conventional conceptions of both surrealist and modernist canons. -- .


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By: Anne Ring Petersen

ISBN: 9781526121905
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Provides close readings of works by internationally renowned artists, including Rina Banerjee, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Pat Ward Williams and Bharti Kher


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By: Anne Ring Petersen

ISBN: 9781526121929
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Provides close readings of works by internationally renowned artists, including Rina Banerjee, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Pat Ward Williams and Bharti Kher


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By: Mechtild Widrich

ISBN: 9781526168115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Monumental cares links the monument debate of the last decade to the history of realism, showing how art can address problems like the climate crisis, migration and authoritarian politics. Case studies range from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest and Hong Kong, in media ranging from marble and glass to cardboard, graffiti and re-enactment.


(Hardback)

By: Mechtild Widrich

ISBN: 9781526168085
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Monumental cares links the monument debate of the last decade to the history of realism, showing how art can address problems like the climate crisis, migration and authoritarian politics. Case studies range from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest and Hong Kong, in media ranging from marble and glass to cardboard, graffiti and re-enactment.


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By: Amelia Jones

ISBN: 9780719096419
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A crucial resource for specialists and students seeking to enrich their understanding of the relationship between gender politics and visual culture. -- .


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By: Amelia Jones

ISBN: 9780719096426
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A crucial resource for specialists and students seeking to enrich their understanding of the relationship between gender politics and visual culture. -- .


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By: Sanja Perovic

ISBN: 9781526167668
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book assesses Stuart Brisleys seminal influence on British art through his lifelong engagement with the histories and imaginaries of revolution. It links together revolutionary history with the authors critical dialogue with Brisley, developed over many years, to explore how revolutionary art, politics and history relate today.


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By: Amy Bryzgel

ISBN: 9781784994211
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first comprehensive academic study of the history of performance art in Eastern Europe. It is a comparative study that covers twenty-one countries across the region, highlighting the unique contribution of these artists to the genre of performance art. -- .


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By: Amy Bryzgel

ISBN: 9781784994228
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first comprehensive academic study of the history of performance art in Eastern Europe. It is a comparative study that covers twenty-one countries across the region, highlighting the unique contribution of these artists to the genre of performance art. -- .


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By: Mechtild Widrich

ISBN: 9780719095917
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Argues the conceptual significance of performance, and of a performative model of art, to the revival of the monument in the wake of the Second World War, the Holocaust and the fall of the Eastern bloc. -- .


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By: Luciana Martins

ISBN: 9780719089916
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Investigates the Brazilian image world in the first four decades of the twentieth century. -- .


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By: Alpesh Kantilal Patel

ISBN: 9781526132529
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This monograph provides novel methods for writing transnational South Asian art history outside of genealogy. -- .


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By: Alpesh Kantilal Patel

ISBN: 9781784992545
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This monograph provides novel methods for writing transnational South Asian art history outside of genealogy. -- .


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By: Maria Taroutina

ISBN: 9781526182647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russia's historic relationship with Asia and the ways in which it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative, and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule.


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By: Maria Taroutina

ISBN: 9781526166234
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russias historic relationship with Asia and the ways in which it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative, and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule.


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By: Tamara Trodd

ISBN: 9780719084638
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Screen/Space is a collection of nine essays exploring developments in contemporary art informed by re-readings of the history of modernist exhibition design, experimental film festivals and key works in the history of structural and expanded film. -- .

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