On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

By James Elkins

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that...

Published August 31st 2004 by Routledge.

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The Nineteenth Century Visual Culture Reader

Edited by Jeannene Przyblyski, Vanessa Schwartz

This reader brings together, for the first time, key writings about the nineteenth century, a key period in contemporary discussion of visual culture.

Exploring such topics...

Published July 1st 2004 by Routledge.

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Digital Currents

Art in the Electronic Age

By Margot Lovejoy

Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist...

Published March 18th 2004 by Routledge.

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Pictures and Tears

A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

By James Elkins

Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to...

Published February 23rd 2004 by Routledge.

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Visual Studies

A Skeptical Introduction

By James Elkins

In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources....

Published August 8th 2003 by Routledge.

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Vision and Difference

Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art

By Griselda Pollock

Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist...

Published April 24th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader

Second Edition

By Amelia Jones

Bringing together key writings on art, film, architecture, popular culture, new media and other visual fields, this key reader combines classic texts by leading feminist...

Published November 28th 2002 by Routledge.

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Stories of Art

By James Elkins

Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks...

Published September 27th 2002 by Routledge.

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Race-ing Art History

Critical Readings in Race and Art History

Edited by Kymberly N. Pinder

Race-ing Art History is the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Within these pages are representations of...

Published August 9th 2002 by Routledge.

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Information Subject

By Mark Poster, Stanley Aronowitz

In this collection of essays and interviews, Mark Poster examines theoretical approaches and develops his own position on our information based society. He...

Published May 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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