This biographical exploration of Francis Cooper, an unknown avocational photographer, offers an unusual perspective on turn-of-the... Læs mere
A philosophical examination of the challenge all humans face in "embracing" their humanity despite the... Læs mere
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.
Explores the role of Tuscan culture in the poetic construction of a commonwealth. This book focuses on four works: Brunetto... Læs mere
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
This volume of the College Art Association Monograph series examines the Romanesque wood doors of Auvergne.
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.
Images of and references to women are so rare in the corpus of his published work that there seems to be no "woman question" for Hans-Georg Gadamer. Yet the... Læs mere
Examines the political and social influences behind the creation of the postrevolutionary Mexican welfare state in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.