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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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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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From the G-spot to Enlightenment is a collection of Flaviyake's photos and original quotes about MUSIC, LOVE and LIFE she came up with as result of her music activities. Flaviyake is a Pop artist, songwriter and music producer. In this book, you can see how her style has changed during the years, and the wisdom she learnt from interacting with the world as an artist.

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This book situates and critically assesses the substantial body of work created by Gee Vaucher within a lineage of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art history, including radical art production of the 1970s, political protest and street art and punk design, as well as cultural, socio-economic, political and historic contexts.

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One of the important British graphic artists of the nineteenth century, George Cruikshank (1792-1878) illustrated over 860 books, including several by Charles Dickens, and produced a number of etchings, paintings, and caricatures. This work shows how the insights of these seminal essays have been amplified by exhibitions and scholarship.

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Glorious catastrophe presents the first detailed critical analysis of the visual art, film, performance and writing of Jack Smith, an icon of the New York avant-garde, from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. It uses his personal papers, and unpublished interviews with friends and collaborators. -- .

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Though often portrayed in scholarly literature as a spontaneous artist, Frida Kahlo worked in a quite deliberate manner, basing her paintings on diverse cultural and philosophical sources.

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In Infinite Regress, David Joselit considers the plurality of identities and practices within Duchamp's life and art between 1910 and 1941, conducting a synthetic reading of his early and middle career.

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Van Eyck is seen as the artist who bridged the gap between the medieval and the modern. "The Enlightenment" had placed van Eyck in the Gothic tradition. Then Napoleon looted panels of his masterwork, the "Ghent Altar-piece", and took them back to the Louvre. This title tells the story of the making of this artist for the modern age.

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Alone of his contemporaries, Turner is commonly held to have prefigured modern painting, as signalled in the existence of The Turner Prize for contemporary art. Our celebration of his achievement is very different to what Victorian critics made of his art. This book shows how Turner was reinvented to become the artist we recognise today.

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High quality reproductions of Jan Esmann's paintings and drawings. Four introductory essays.

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A collection of essays by artists and critics from North America and Europe which foreground the scope of Beuys' work across performance, drawing, painting, sculpture and multiples. This work is useful to student of Beuys and for those interested in postwar art, the cult of the artist, and art's engagement with politics and society.

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An anthology of writings, interviews, and images by artist Ed Ruscha.

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