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Romney: And Other New Works About Philadelphia By Owen Wister (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Romney is the best fictional portrayal of "Gilded Age" Philadelphia, brilliantly capturing Wister's vision of old-money, aristocratic society... Læs mere
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The Sleep of Reason: Primitivism in Modern European Art and Aesthetics, 1725–1907 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this work on what constitutes "primitive" art, Frances Connelly argues that "primitive" art was not a style at all, but... Læs mere
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The Soldiers’ Revolution: Pennsylvanians in Arms and the Forging of Early American Identity (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Soldiers’ Revolution looks to those who took up arms in Pennsylvania to reveal the tapestry of local... Læs mere
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The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines theater and portraiture as interrelated social practices in seventeenth-century Spain. Features visual images and cross-disciplinary readings of selected plays that employ the motif of the painted portrait to key dramatic and symbolic effect.
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Titian's Portraits through Aretino's Lens (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This study looks at Titian's portraits in light of Aretino's letters and sonnets regarding them. It demonstrates that it is due to Titian's portraits and to Aretino's writings about them that the portrait ceased being a social-historical document.
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The World of Francis Cooper: Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania Photographer (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This biographical exploration of Francis Cooper, an unknown avocational photographer, offers an unusual perspective on turn-of-the... Læs mere
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Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and Representation in Mexican Art (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the imagery of woman in Mexican art and visual culture. Examines how woman signified a variety of concepts, from modernity to authenticity and revolutionary social transformation, both before and after the Mexican Revolution.
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The Commonwealth of Nature: Art and Poetic Community in the Age of Dante (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the role of Tuscan culture in the poetic construction of a commonwealth. This book focuses on four works: Brunetto... Læs mere
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Italian Master Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is fortunate to have a collection of Italian drawings that encompasses a broad sweep of Italy's art history, from... Læs mere
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The Romanesque Wooden Doors of Auvergne (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This volume of the College Art Association Monograph series examines the Romanesque wood doors of Auvergne.
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Salvador Dali, or the Art of Spitting on Your Mother's Portrait (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This is a picture of Dali's life and art, with an approach somewhere between biography, Freudian analysis, and art and literary interpretation. Dali is shown as haunted by the devouring phantom of his mother, the praying mantis on whose portrait he would like to spit.
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Gender and Welfare in Mexico: The Consolidation of a Postrevolutionary State (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the political and social influences behind the creation of the postrevolutionary Mexican welfare state in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
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