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Explores how visual culture has at once transformed and consolidated the image of the United States. This book presents both an analysis of the diversity of American visual media and a critical introduction to the study and interpretation of visual culture.

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An annotated bibliography of suggested further reading completes this invaluable and unique resource for the student and teacher of modern American art, media and culture.

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Proposes an anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Refusing to reduce images to their material embodiment yet acknowledging the importance of the historical media in which images are manifested, this book presents a challenging and provocative account of what pictures are and how they function.

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The single family house, for example, shares with its foreign contemporaries the basic elements of plan, and yet the way in which these elements are organized into a whole gives our houses certain qualities which we can call uniquely American.

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How the archive evolved to include new technologies, practices, and media, and how it became the apparatus through which we map the everyday.

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This book reveals how companies support the arts and highlights actual dollar amounts, services rendered, preferred artistic events, and the motives for such support. This edited book shows how business philanthropy to the arts evolved and how public relations and marketing strategies are key to understanding the role of business in art.

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Through the use of case examples and careful examination, this book presents the first interdisciplinary essay collection on the study of art crime, and its effect on all aspects of the art world.

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Takes the neglected role of humour in art. This book looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us laugh and why. It explores the use of comedy in art from satire and irony to pun, parody and black and bawdy humour.

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Contemporary art is incresingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a political message. This book provides readers with the tools to decode and appreciate political art, a crucial and understudied direction in post-war art.

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Concentrating on scholarship over the past four decades, this multidisciplinary approach to representation considers conceptual issues about representation and applies different theories to various arts.

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Featuring the work of artists such as Damien Hirst, Christine Borland, Bill Viola and Helen Chadwick, and art-science collaborative ventures involving Dorothy Cross, Eduardo Kac and Stelarc, it looks at the way new scientific explanations for the nature of human consciousness can influence our interpretation of art, at the.

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The majority of the art forms that we see in museums and art books that have come from Native America or Africa or Oceania, are objects that were once part of a larger artistic whole from which they have been extracted.

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Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials. But in our media world art has changed, its very materials have changed and have become technologized. This change reflects a broader social shift. Speed and politics have been transformed in the twenty-first century to speed and mass culture. This work puts art at the centre of politics.

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What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists

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This collection is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading art historians explore Pott's recasting of realism, providing a new understanding of artworks dating from the eighth to twenty-first centuries and challenging established thinking on art's relation to the everyday. -- .

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In addition to considering the motives of thieves, the book looks at the way art theft is socially organized: the types of thefts that are committed, the ways thieves locate art to steal and how they gain access to it, their use of insiders and fronts, and the way they launder stolen art.

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(Paperback, Revised edition)

Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists think ever more strategically about how to advance their careers. Art is no longer simply made, but packaged, sold, and branded. In Art of the Deal, Noah Horowi