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Showcases a contemporary view of international art featured in galleries and media across the globe. This collection of surrealism, pop art, illustration, collage, graphic design and mixed media represents many of the poses struck by the most boundarypushing artists.

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Metaphors may be the most versatile tool in the toolbox of a person who is trying to express a powerful idea. This book discusses the use of metaphor in a variety of life settings. It presents metaphors in life altering situations; about the human condition; in wit and humor; insults and criticism; relationships; love; marriage; and, sex.

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An award-winning writer rescues seven first-rate twentieth-century women artists from oblivion--their lives fascinating, their artwork a revelation.

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How Constructivist artists in Russia between 1923 and 1925 developed a counterproposal to capitalism's commodity fetish by producing objects meant to be "comrades" in the creation of an egalitarian socialist culture.

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This beautifully illustrated book explores the links between art and the experience of immigration from Latin America to the United States. The authors use the powerful retablos of Peruvian artist Nicario Jimnez Quispe, who now lives and works in the United States, to offer creative new insights on the bitter debates that are dividing our nation.

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Introduces the vital role of printmaking through works by more than twenty artists in the Museums collection. This title features many more recent projects, demonstrating the contemporary relevance of the medium in South Africa today.

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The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps, but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills. This book tells about life in the bohemian world of art in Paris between 1900-1910.

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In this text, Native Canadians address the historical injustice, while offering hope for the future. Eight writers and 19 visual artists respond to the 500th Anniversary of Columbus's landfall in the Americas, offering counterpoint to the inaccurate theme of "discovery".

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An anthology of writings and projects by artists who developed and extended the genre of institutional critique.

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How art makes visible what had been invisiblethe effects of radiation, the lives of atomic bomb survivors, and the politics of the atomic age.

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Ranging from neo-conceptual artworks to cultural analyses, the writings

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In this authoritative study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua and Milan

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An artist charts the historical context and aftermath of a concert--by Leonard Cohen at the Ramallah Cultural Palace in Palestine--that never happened.

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The legendary Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis remains the first lady of fashion for legions of fans around the world-a style launched by her collaborations with iconic designer Oleg Cassini. Read about and see the countless trends they inspired in Jackie and Cassini.

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The V&A has the UK's largest permanent display of Japanese art, housing objects from the 6th century to the present day. In this new book some of the world's leading researchers in the field bring their attention to the V&A's unparalleled collection.

The first multi-volume collection to present a critical overview of the history and culture of Japanese art.

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In this richly illustrated and highly accessible book, Julia Hutt draws on the V&A's world-famous netsuke collection to explore the origins and techniques of this captivating art form.

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From the 1860s through to the early 20th century the rise of Japonisme and the Art Nouveau movement meant that few could ignore or resist the obsession with all things Japanese. This book includes examples of the designed and executed decorative arts of the Meiji periods from the Khalili Collection.