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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...

October 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...

September 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...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96046-5 (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...

February 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."

Guardian

Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin...

February 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...

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

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Landscape Theory

Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins

Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96054-0 (Routledge)

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Biographies & Space

Placing the Subject in Art and Architecture

Edited by Dana Arnold, Joanna Sofaer Derevenski

Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36551-2 (Routledge)

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The Florentine Villa

Architecture History Society

By Grazia Gobbi Sica

Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44397-5 (Routledge)

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Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum

Time, space and the archive

By Griselda Pollock

Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41374-9 (Routledge)

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