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Bauhaus Construct

Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism

Edited by Jeffrey Saletnik, Robin Schuldenfrei

Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school’s history, this volume positions art objects of the…

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September 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77836-7 (Routledge)

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Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period

Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani

By Deborah Schultz, Edward Timms

This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, focusing on their…

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April 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-49095-5 (Routledge)

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The City Rehearsed

Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

By Christopher Heuer

The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43306-8 (Routledge)

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Re-Enchantment

Edited by James Elkins, David Morgan

The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96052-6 (Routledge)

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Making American Art

By Pam Meecham, Julie Sheldon

Making American Art presents a thematic, interdisciplinary examination of art in the United States from the seventeenth century to the present day.

The themes and issues…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42070-9 (Routledge)

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Renaissance Theory

Edited by James Elkins, Robert Williams

Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96046-5 (Routledge)

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Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty

Boys Were Their Gods

By Andrew Lear, Eva Cantarella

This lavishly illustrated book brings together, for the first time, all of the different ways in which vase-painting portrays or refers to pederasty, from scenes…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-22367-6 (Routledge)

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Art of the Brooklyn Bridge

A Visual History

By Richard Haw

The Brooklyn Bridge is a pre-eminent global icon. It is the world’s most famous and beloved bridge, a "must-see" tourist hotspot, and a vital fact…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95386-3 (Routledge)

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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful

By Edmund Burke

Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton.

'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'– The Guardian

Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45326-4 (Routledge)

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The State of Art Criticism

Edited by James Elkins, MICHAEL NEWMAN

Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97787-6 (Routledge)

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