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Award-winning author, curator and activist Lucy Lippard is one of America s most influential writers on contemporary art, a pioneer in the fields of cultural geography, conceptualism and feminist art; she now turns her eye to the politics of land use.

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The art of Harry Gamboa Jr. encompasses photography, video, performance, essays, fiction, poetry, and lesser-known forms of his own creation. This work gathers Gamboa's diverse creations in a collection that reveals a rich vein of Chicano avant-garde production reaching back to the early 1970s.

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Born in Switzerland in 1972, Magaro seems unwilling to distinguish between inanimate matter and animate living beings in his work. This title presents his works from 2005 to 2009.

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A cross-disciplinary study of art and artists in Vancouver, Canada that situates the city at the centre of one of the world's most intriguing visual arts scenes, and the political, geographic, institutional,and cultural influences which shape it.

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Using a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, this book explores the originality of Vermeer in the context of 17th-century Dutch painting. It suggests that his confrontation with painting represented a very personal effort to define a new pictorial practice within the classical tradition of his art.

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Celebrating the flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century, this is an illustrated volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings. It includes the finest portraits of women by Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Botticelli, Verrocchio, and Leonardo da Vinci.

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The concept of opposing forces of good and evil expressed in a range of moral qualities - virtues and vices - is one of the dominant themes in the history of Christian art. This catalogue documents the occurrence of the Virtues and Vices in well over 1,000 works of art produced between the fifth and the fifteenth centuries.

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Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 29, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012, Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago.

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Covering a vast panorama of history and tradition, this book presents a survey of 2000 years of Indian art. More than 100 works drawn from Indian, Australian, European and American collections are included, accompanied by a commentary.

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"Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women celebrates past efforts while looking toward what actions we might take in the future to further support women's equality"--Introduction.

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This sumptuously illustrated volume, edited by eminent war historian Joanna Bourke, offers a comprehensive visual, cultural and historical account of the ways in which armed conflict has been represented in art.

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Examines an array of forgotten images and movie episodes - from a photo of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland lying on a picnic blanket in Santa Barbara hills to scenes from films as "Twelve O'Clock High" and "Hold Back the Dawn". This book reveals background of these bits of film and discovers unexpected connections between war and Hollywood.

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This book offers the first sustained examination of the cultural relations of the American and Soviet avant-gardes in a period of major transformation. -- .

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A fascinating documentation of EarthCloud, the world's largest installation in porcelain in the world.

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An impressive, beautiful designed review of the significant art collection of the University of Minnesota that includes fifty full-color reproductions of paintings, sculptures, photographs, ceramics, and other objects from the collection.

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In the heady and hallucinogenic days of the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of artists and creative individuals based in the American Westfrom the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest broke the barriers between art and lifestyle and embraced the new, hybrid sensibilities of the countercultural movement.

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A delightful anthology of divergent art-zines by 10 Creativity Explored artists

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