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Geology was in vogue in nineteenth-century America. This study of the Hudson River School offers an account of the role of geology in nineteenth-century landscape painting. It yields insights into some of the most influential works of American art and provides an understanding of the relationship between art and nature, and science and religion.

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Going beyond a record of his life and art, renowned Chamoun delves into what drives an artist to create. A lavish production featuring 322 colour illustrations of the work of this remarkable artist and teacher.

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Collects the out-of-this-world concept art, illustrations, paintings and sketches of the immensely talented Fred Gambino. Featuring excerpts from Fred's varied career, as well as his personal multimedia project 'Dark Shepherd', this monograph is suitable for science fiction art fans and budding 3D concept artists.

(Hardback)

Employing minimal color schemes, simple animal characters, and a seemingly endless list of ill-fated situations, Luke Chueh has enjoyed cult acclaim and sell-out shows. This book deals with his work.

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This new edition of T. V. Reed's acclaimed classic offers accounts of ten key progressive movements in postwar America, from the African American struggle for civil rights beginning in the 1950s to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter in the twenty-first century. Reed focuses on the artistic activities of these movements to frame progressive social change and its cultural legacies.

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A significant, ground-breaking reassessment of ancient Chinese tombs, which were filled with exquisite art objects and images, now available in paperback. The Art of the Yellow Springs looks at the implications presented by an entire burial site, rather than the individual works of art contained within them.

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A unique survey of the artful nature of funerals in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime.

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No single drawing in this book is a representation of cities in-situ; all of them are interpretations, translations, and combinations of traces collected and selected while teaching, working, meeting cultures, and eating food in many different cities around the world.

(Paperback, Revised and Expanded Edition)

Explores the artistic images and religious interpretations of Christ during this period.

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In an era when technology, biology, and culture are becoming ever more closely connected, The Dada Cyborg explains how the cyborg as we know it today actually developed between 1918 and 1933 when German artists gave visual form to their utopian hopes and fantasies in a fearful response to World War I.

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A compelling and thought-provoking study, now available in B-format paperback, The Destruction of Art investigates the destruction of architecture and art around the globe, uncovering a surprisingly widespread phenomenon.

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The family model has been central to patterns of social organization and cultural articulation throughout Chinese history, influencing all facets of the content and style of Chinese art. With contributors drawn from the disciplines of art history, anthropology, psychiatry, history, and literature, this volume explores the Chinese concept of family

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Exploring the 60-degree panorama: the late eighteenth-century origins of immersive visual spectacle.

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"A revelatory reclaiming of five iconic Chinese artists and their place in art history"--

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"A revelatory reclaiming of five iconic Chinese artists and their place in art history"--

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The major art pieces, most important artists, and significant artistic movements from 35,000 BCE to today are collected together in this easy-to-read resource on art history.