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Certain works of art are famous to everyone: those who love art and those who are generally indifferent to it. This volume considers 30 works of art and examines the ways in which they have transcended the art world and become facets of the popular imagination.

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Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, this work explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded protofascist and fascist aesthetic discourse, and artistic production in France and Italy. It investigates the intersection of fascist ideology and aesthetics through a range of historical examples.

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This book uses a feminist approach to analyzing gender relations in the production and distribution of folk art in four different cultures. It examines examples of womens creativity within male-dominated societies and offers an analysis of different art forms, including clay figures, baskets, lacquer work, and dolls.

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This book uses a feminist approach to analyzing gender relations in the production and distribution of folk art in four different cultures. It examines examples of womens creativity within male-dominated societies and offers an analysis of different art forms, including clay figures, baskets, lacquer work, and dolls.

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Finding Color is one teen's artistic journey to find peace and an understanding of herself as well as her place in this world. This book addresses topics such as Dyslexia, Anxiety, Depression, and Bullying.

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Explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits. -- .

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Explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits. -- .

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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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According to the contributors to this volume, the relationship of Buddhism and the arts in Japan is less the rendering of Buddhist philosophical ideas through artistic imagery than it is the development of concepts and expressions in a virtually inseparable unity. By challenging those who consider religion to be the primary phenomenon and art the s

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This study argues that folk art entered the modern discourse on Chinese visual arts as an object of both pride and shame and describes how ideas about folk art were articulated in the pivotal period of the 1930s and 1940s.

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This study argues that folk art entered the modern discourse on Chinese visual arts as an object of both pride and shame and describes how ideas about folk art were articulated in the pivotal period of the 1930s and 1940s.

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This original book explores the thinking behind Browns murals in Manchester Town Hall. It argues that Brown was the most innovative artist in Victorian Britain and that he used this public commission to contest the liberal model of British history favoured by the Manchester Corporation.

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Providing a detailed annotated bibliography and research guide to the Stieglitz Circle and four of its leading membersArthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Max Weberthis new sourcebook offers a chapter on each of the four artists.

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The volume is designed for art historians, art students, museum and gallery curators, and others interested in this major art style of the last half of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century.

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