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Traces two intersecting trajectories in American art. It shows how rights-based 1960s politics and the identity politics of the 1970s influenced the development of Conceptual art (with a capital 'C') into the diverse set of practices generally characterised as conceptualist (with a lower-case 'c'). -- .

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Traces two intersecting trajectories in American art. It shows how rights-based 1960s politics and the identity politics of the 1970s influenced the development of Conceptual art (with a capital 'C') into the diverse set of practices generally characterised as conceptualist (with a lower-case 'c'). -- .

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Today is the deed.We will account for it tomorrow.The past we are leaving behind as carrion.The future we leave to the fortune-tellers.We take the present day.

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Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term "Action Painters" to refer to the American Abstract Expressionists

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The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the leading role Germanophone women artists have played in deploying surrealism to respond to the traumatic events and legacies of the Second World War.

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This handbook offers a rare glimpse into the private art collection of the Union League Club Chicago, inaccessible to the public, yet replete with premiere works of art by artists as diverse as Claude Monet and Hebru Brantley. The collection celebrates excellence and invention by artists creating in the nineteenth century to modern times.

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Russian nineteenth-century society, as seen through the art of the Wanderers, the nation's largest and most successful dissident school of realist painters, provides a fascinating social panorama of the late tsarist period: the land, the people, its times and history. -- .

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Organizes and describes the primary and secondary literature surrounding Mary Stevenson Cassat, Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzales and Marie Bracquemond, four major women Impressionist artists. It contains nearly 900 citations of manuscripts, books, articles, reproductions, films exhibitions and reviews.

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"The life of Paul Gauguin (1848--1903), who abandoned his wife, five children, and a successful career as a stockbroker to paint in poverty in exotic Tahiti, is one of the legendary tales of the art wor"

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WHILE THOMAS J KERSEY'S ART WORKS ARE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL THEY CONVEY THE MATERIAL PAIN WE ALL HAVE.THOMAS J KERSEY'S ART ENCHANTS AND MAKES THE WORLD BEARABLE AND WORTHY OF LIVING. THOMAS J KERSEY'S ART ENCHANTS BECAUSE IT IS AN EXPRESSION OF HIS TRUTH.

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Coffee table art book of collaged portraits drawn tenderly, stylishly, and beautifully.

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Explores Franco-Maghrebi crossings in contemporary art, giving particular attention to performance, video, photography and installation. It is the first book to focus on postcolonial approaches to art in France and the wider French-speaking world. -- .

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The importance of the late 18th century in the genesis of modern art emerges in these four essays on various aspects of the art and architecture of a neglected period.

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Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. It explores path-breaking transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s in the framework of decolonial movements and transcultural thinking.

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Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. It explores path-breaking transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s in the framework of decolonial movements and transcultural thinking.

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A collection of twelve essays that demonstrates, through the interpretation of a work of art, the abundance and complexity of methodological approaches available to art historians. It focuses on Manet's "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere" and applies to it different methodologies, including feminism, Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and semiotics.

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Understand Contemporary Art is a comprehensive guide to the art scene - how it has developed, the key personalities, influences and works.