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  • Erotic Fantasyby Hans-Jürgen Döpp

    Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95

    Numerous and diverse points of view come together in this work, demonstrating the multiple aspects that sexuality can present. If nothing is more natural than sexual desire, it is nothing less than the forms by which this desire is expressed and found to satisfy. This book invites you on a special journey, into the universe of emotion, of pleasure and desire. more...

  • Venus in Exileby Wendy Steiner

    Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 17.99

    Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still reverberating through art and social relations today. Exploring this casting of Venus, with all her charms, into exile, Wendy Steiner's brilliant, ambitious, and provocative analysis explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Tracing this strange and damaging history, starting from Kant's aesthetics and Mary Shelley's horrified response in Frankenstein, Steiner untangles the complex attitudes of modernists toward both... more...

  • Unmarkedby Peggy Phelan

    Routledge 1993; US$ 42.95

    Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performance texts - including photography, painting, film and theatre. more...

  • Urban Avant-Gardesby Malcolm Miles

    Routledge 2004; US$ 65.95

    Can art or architecture change the world? Is it possible to think of a new cultural avant-garde today? This book contributes to the debate by looking back to past avant-gardes and by profiling contemporary cases of radical cultural practices. more...

  • Sight Unseenby Martin A. Berger

    University of California Press 2005; US$ 15.95

    Sight Unseen explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through a nimble analysis of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century paintings, photographs, museums, and early motion pictures, Martin A. Berger illustrates how a shared investment in whiteness invisibly guides what Americans of European descent see, what they accept as true, and, ultimately, what legal, social, and economic policies they enact. Carefully reconstructing the racial and philosophical contexts of selected artworks that contain no narrative links to race, the author exposes the effects of racial thinking on our interpretation of the visual world. Bucolic genre paintings of white farmers, pristine landscape photographs of the western... more...

  • Urban Space and Cityscapesby Christoph Lindner

    Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 56.95

    Examining constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of 'cityscapes' in contemporary culture, this interdisciplinary volume includes commissioned essays from the fields of architecture, visual art and urban geography. It draws on urban studies and moves beyond familiar cultural representations of the city. more...

  • Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theoryby Gene Ray

    Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00

    The eleven interconnected essays of this book penetrate the dense historical knots binding terror, power and the aesthetic sublime and bring the results to bear on the trauma of September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror. The author argues that globalization cannot be separated from the collective tasks of working through historical genocide. more...

  • Landscape Theoryby Rachel DeLue; James Elkins

    Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 34.95

    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from many disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art.   more...

  • The Rhizomatic Westby Neil Campbell

    University of Nebraska Press 2008; US$ 50.00

    Using Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of the rhizome, Neil Campbell shows how the West (or west-ness) continually breaks away from a mainstream notion of American “rootedness” and renews and transforms itself in various cultural forms. A region long traversed by various transient peoples (from tribes and conquerors to immigrants, traders, and trappers), the West reflects a mythic quest for settlement, permanence, and synthesis—even notions of a national or global identity—at odds with its rootless history, culture, and nature. Crossing the concept of “roots” with “routes,” this book shows how notions of the West—in representations ranging from literature and film to photography,... more...

  • "You Should See Yourself"by Vincent Brook

    Rutgers University Press 2006; US$ 17.00

    The past few decades have seen a remarkable surge in Jewish influences on American culture. Entertainers and artists such as Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Allegra Goodman, and Tony Kushner have heralded new waves of television, film, literature, and theater; a major klezmer revival is under way; bagels are now as commonplace as pizza; and kabbalah has become as cool as crystals. Does this broad range of cultural expression accurately reflect what it means to be Jewish in America today?. Bringing together fourteen new essays by leading scholars, You Should See Yourself examines the fluctuating representations of Jewishness in a variety of areas of popular culture and high art, including literature, the media, film, theater, music, dance, painting,... more...