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Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction.

Explores the relationship between art and religion after the iconoclasm of the Dutch Reformation. Reassesses Dutch realism and its pictorial strategies in relation to the religious and political diversity of the Dutch cities.

Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how contemporary global art is conceptualized. Issues discussed include globalism and globalization, internationalism and nationality, empire and capitalism.

Brings together the disciplines of art, music, and history to explore the importance of the past to conceptions of the present in the central Middle Ages.

Ranging from France and Russia to America in the throes of world war and revolution, this book investigates how critics and creative artists made medieval culture a part of their modern world through theatrical role playing. It focuses on two key figures of the Theophilien troupe: founder Gustave Cohen and actor Moussa Abadi.

Examines the nexus of learned culture and architecture in the 1730s to 1750s, including major building projects in Rome undertaken by the popes.

Extends formalism to facture and situates the materiality of Titian's later works within the late sixteenth-century interest in embodiment and violence rather than within the Renaissance ideals of classicizing beauty and perfection.

A series of linked essays that considers different aspects of Matisse's life and work, revealing how the artist worked against many of the main tenets of modernism.

Traces changes in Andean artists' vision of indigenous peoples as well as shifts in the critical discourse surrounding their work between 1920 and 1960.

Argues that Viennese Jewish modernism is explicable as an aesthetic reconfiguration of Jewish tradition in response to multifaceted crises of memory, identity and language. Examines the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945) and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).

A general study of palace painting in Trecento and Quattrocento Italy. Argues for the pivotal role of early secular painting in early-modern art and theory.

A discussion of the murals by Giotto in the Arena Chapel of Padua, Italy. The artist's work is considered in terms of its relationship to the structure of the poetry of Dante, biblical exegesis, geometry, and symmetry.

Examines 58 letters written by Katerina Lemmel, a wealthy Nuremberg widow, who in 1516 entered the abbey of Maria Mai in south Germany, and rebuilt the monastery using her own resources and the donations she solicited from relatives.

Explores an international network of artists, artist groups, and critics linked by their aesthetic and theoretical responses to science, science fiction, and new media. Focuses on the Italian Spatial Artist Lucio Fontana and French Painter of Space Yves Klein.

This anthology provides a unique, multifaceted overview of a subject of enduring importance in today's religiously pluralistic societies. The essays collected here, written by scholars with an eye toward the average reader, broadly survey the dramatization of the Passion and consider the significance of this focus for both Christians and Jews.

Invites readers to consider and reconsider how past thinkers - from Pliny and Alberti to Freud and Fried - have conceptualized the history of Western art.

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.

Discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Paul Cezanne. This book proposes a way of reading Cezanne's biography as a form of art criticism. It also proposes a reading of Cezanne's images of bathers that accounts for their strangenesses and for the pleasures they produce.

A collection of essays presenting international perspectives on the narratives and the practices grounding the scholarly study of American Art.

Explores the ways in which Spanish Imperial authority was manifested in a system of representation for subjects of New Spain during seventeenth century. This book examines images in which the conquest of Mexico is depicted, maps showing New Spain's relationship to Spain and the larger world, and restructuring of space in and through imperial rule.

Focuses on works on paper by contemporary artist Jane Hammond, who garnered a reputation in the art world as a painter in New York in the 1990s. Through the interplay of text and recycled images, Hammond has produced a series of fresh, compelling, and provocative pieces. This catalogue's sixty-four featured works show the diversity of her oeuvre.

Unites the core body of paintings and drawings, providing an account of the expedition through close visual readings that reveal Samuel Seymour's and Titian Ramsay Peale's complex responses to the contradictory goals of their assignment.

Argues that we can only learn how and why certain kinds of spatial representation prevailed over others by carefully considering how Renaissance artists and theorists interpreted perspective. This book challenges basic assumptions about the way early modern artists and theorists represented their relationship to the visible world.

Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the leading artists of the early twentieth century, to be ranked alongside such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, and Pollock in his contributions to Modernist painting. This book advances an understanding of Miro's enterprise in 1920s and of the important works of his career.

Uses the writing of Freud, Lacan, the Surrealists, and Roland Barthes to elaborate a theory of art beyond the pleasure principle. Lacan was in close contact with the Surrealists and, early in his career, exchanged ideas with Dali. This book offers a reading of Dali's "paranoiac-critical" tour de force, "The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus".

Our view of modernism in the arts has been shaped by the prominence of painting and, in particular, by a succession of painters working in Paris - from Courbet and Manet to the Cubists. This title offers a singular critical voice challenging us to think differently about modernism.

One of Jacques-Louis David's most ambitious and darkly enigmatic paintings, "Leonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae", hangs in the Louvre, largely ignored. Focusing on this painting, this work embarks on a discourse about the perception of the body, sexuality, and subjectivity in early nineteenth-century European art.

Examines the role of monumental sculpture and architecture in the medieval cityscape, offering an interpretation of the relationships among art, architecture, and the history of urbanism. This book shifts attention away from the great Gothic cities of the later Middle Ages to focus on the urban context of art making in the earlier Romanesque era.

William Bartram's love of nature led him to explore the environs of American Southeast between 1773 and 1777. Here he collected plants and seeds, kept a journal of his observations of nature, and made drawings of the plants and animals he encountered. This work brings together, sixty-eight drawings by Bartram held at the Natural History Museum.

Features essays by Michael Cole, Larry Silver, Susan Dackerman, Graham Larkin, and exhibit co-curator Madeleine Viljoen. This book accompanies an exhibition that opened in April 2006 at the University of Pennsylvania.