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Looks at a vital facet of Right-wing thought in the early twentieth century. Presenting an approach uniting intellectual history with political theory, this book is a contribution to the cultural debate on 'intellectuals and the masses'.

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This book offers access to the issues and methodological complexities raised by the interpretation of popular graphic images from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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The paradox at the heart of the return to realism in the interwar years, as seen in work by Moholy-Nagy, Brecht, and others.

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In this richly illustrated study of the relationship of art, drama, and fiction in the nineteenth century, Martin Meisel illuminates the collaboration between storytelling and picturemaking that informed narrative painting, pictorial dramaturgy, and serial illustrated fiction. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the la

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This book examines the redevelopment of British cities in the immediate post-war, challenging existing histories of reconstruction and urban modernism. -- .

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In a major analysis of pictorial forms from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Christopher Braider argues that the painted image provides a metaphor and model for all other modes of expression in Western culture--particularly literature, philosophy, religion, and science. Because critics have conventionally explained visual images in terms

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Offers an engagement with a rethinking of Magritte's art from a position informed by contemporary developments in art theory. This title analyses Magritte's art through employing a range of literary and philosophical/cultural theoretical frameworks. It explores how Magritte's art challenges conventional notions of originality and canonicity.

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Supplemental information on various related topics is cross-referenced for easy access, and the reader is provided with an even more complete location of topics and other entries with see references and a subject index.

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This collection provides transnational perspectives on the significance of Italy to American art and visual culture and the impact of the United States on Italian art and popular culture. Covering the period from the risorgimento to the Cold War, it reveals the complexity of the visual discourses that bound two relatively new nations together.

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With the emergence of a contemporary desire for nostalgic interior style, "Retro" has inevitably become a highly valuable branch of interior design. Examining themes from production and consumption to cultural and social impacts on gender and class, Retro Style provides the essential critique of the modern vintage revival.

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Tracing Krauss's development in this way provides the best method of understanding the changing styles of American art criticism from the 1960s through the present, and thus provides an invaluable source of historical and aesthetic knowledge for artists and art scholars alike.

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This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russias historic relationship with Asia and the ways in which it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative, and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule.

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This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russia's historic relationship with Asia and the ways in which it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative, and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule.

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Examines the last century of Scandinavian design to reveal how the region's design culture is very different from popular assumption.

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