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  • Romantic Modernismby Wim Denslagen

    Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 42.00

    Is it possible for conservationists to approve of the reconstruction of old façades when virtually everything behind them is modern? Should they continue to protect the front façade, when the rest of the historic building has vanished? Is it socially responsible to spend government money on reconstructing a historic building that has been completely... more...

  • Systematisch en Flexibelby Louis Tavecchio

    Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 12.00

    'De Karthuizer' houden zich bezig met maatschappelijke, culturele en sociaal-pedagogische vraagstukken, vooral uit de sector zorg, welzijn en cultuur in Amsterdam en omstreken. Het kan daarbij om van alles gaan: van jeugdprojecten tot schuldsanering. Goed onderzoek hoort aan de basis van de aanpak van dit soort vraagstukken te liggen. In Nederland... more...

  • How to Study Art Worldsby Hans van Maanen

    Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 35.00

    This necessary and thought-provoking study brings together the organisational side of the world of the arts and the understanding of the many functions art fulfi lls in our culture. more...

  • Painting Faithby An-Yi Pan

    BRILL 2007; US$ 212.00

    Despite Li Gonglin's (ca. 1049-1106) deep faith in Buddhism and the large number of recorded and extant Buddhist paintings associated with or ascribed to this great painter, twentieth century scholarship on Li Gonglin has focused primarily on his literatus identity and Confucian art oeuvres. This book departs from this traditional view to establish... more...

  • Mysterium Magnumby Regina Stefaniak

    BRILL 2008; US$ 144.00

    Drawing on the fifteenth century theology of Saint Joseph, classical visual sources, Ficino's commentary on the Phaedrus and Symposium, and Dante's rime petrose, this book interprets Michelangelo's "Tondo Doni" as a model of "Ephesians'" 'great sacrament' of marriage for the new Florentine republic. more...

  • Pictures from a Drawerby Bruce Jackson

    Temple University Press 2009;

    For more than forty years Bruce Jackson has been documenting—in books, photographs, audio recording, and film—inmates’ lives in American prisons. In November, 1975, he acquired a collection of old ID photos while he was visiting the Cummins Unit, a state prison farm in Arkansas. They are published together for the first time in... more...

  • YarnPlay at Homeby Lisa Shobhana Mason

    F+W Media 2011; US$ 22.99

    Decorate in Style with Colorful, Cozy Handknits From inviting afghans and throws to a playful cozy for a French press and a mini sweater for a wine bottle, YarnPlay at Home gives you the perfect knitted accent piece for every room in your home. Dress up your bathroom with a super-soft bathmat or jazz up your dining table by slipping silverware into... more...

  • The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagoreby Debashish Banerji

    SAGE India 2009; US$ 59.95

    The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore provides a revisionary critique of the art of Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of a ‘national’ school of Indian painting, popularly known as the Bengal School of Art. It categorically argues that the art of Abanindranath, which developed as part of what has been called the Bengal Renaissance in... more...

  • A Sourcebook of Gauguin's Symbolist Followersby RUSSELL CLEMENT; ANNICK HOUZE; CHRISTIANE ERBOLATO-RAMSEY

    ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 195.00

    Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) played a seminal role in Post-Impressionist France. In his writings and work, he favored emotional responses to nature over intellectual uses of lines, color, and composition. In 1888 he and Emile Bernard developed a new style called Synthetism. Three groups of Gauguin's symbolist followers?Pont Aven, Les Nabis, and Rose +... more...

  • ORLANby Simon Donger; Simon Shepherd

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 41.95

    ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is an in-depth academic account of ORLAN's pioneering art in its entirety. The book covers her career in performance and a range of other art forms. This single accessible overview of ORLAN's practices describes and analyses her various innovative uses of the body as artistic material. Edited by Simon Donger with... more...