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This text deals with episodes and issues relating to the spread and practice of photography, from its beginnings to World War I. It covers the reception accorded to the new art by professionals, amateurs and the public, and the response of intellectuals and painters.

Argues that G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche share a concept of individuality that combines autonomy and community, but that they develop this concept in opposite directions, leaving an irreconcilable tension between political means of individual fulfilllment.

Examines the stained-glass windows in the Gothic cathedral of Reims within the context of the evolution of the French monarchy and medieval art.

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.

Examines the work of eighteenth-century sculptor Ignaz Gunther within the context of Bavarian Rococo art and Counter-Reformation religious visual culture.

Examines the relationship between photography and medicine in American culture. Focuses on the American Civil War and postbellum Philadelphia to explore how medical models and metaphors helped establish the professional legitimacy of commercial photography while promoting belief in the rehabilitative powers of studio portraiture.

Examines the relationship between art and morality discussed in the writings of American pragmatist John Dewey. Argues that there is a clear connection between the experience of art and the project of moral cultivation.

Oxhorn studies the process by which social groups are incorporated into national socioeconomic and political development through an approach that focuses on the "social construction of citizenship." He sets forth a theory of civil society adequate for explaining current developments in a way that such controversial neoconservative theories cannot.

An interdisciplinary study examining the newspaper industry in Argentina during the regime of Juan Domingo Peron. Traces how Peron managed to integrate almost the entire Argentine press into a state-dominated media empire.

Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings.

Explores history painting in the United States during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, as exemplified by Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851). Includes the work of artists such as Daniel Huntington, Lilly Martin Spencer, and Eastman Johnson.

Re-examines the sculpture on the transept porches of Chartres Cathedral and revises their chronology, based on information from the previously unstudied tomb of the count of Joigny. Documents the production of the monument within the context of French High Gothic sculpture.

Explores art history and imaginative literature to show how fiction and history inform each other. Traces the modern idea of the artist to the epic tradition from Homer and Ovid to Dante, leading to Michelangelo. Examines how Vasari shaped Balzac's idea of the artist, and Balzac influenced Picasso's.

Argues against the accepted idea that Thomas Hobbes turned away from humanism to pursue the scientific study of politics. Reconceptualizes Hobbes's thought within early modern humanist pedagogy and the court culture of the Stuart regimes.

Drawing on conversations and experiences shared with Koriak women living on the northeastern Kamchatka peninsula, Petra Rethmann conveys the human dignity and creative energy that persist in the midst of social suffering following the breakdown of the Soviet empire.

A celebration of the pictorial convention known as "The Labours of the Months" and the ways it was used in the Middle Ages. It provides insights into prevailing social attitudes and values of the culture of medieval Europe.

What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing debate criticising, but also explaining what can be learned from, alternative views.

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.

In this third volume, Khrushchev discusses the search for allies in the Third World. This volume is devoted to international affairs and is the only complete and fully reliable English-language version of the memoirs of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Examines the crown-sponsored architecture and urbanism of Naples during the reign of King Charles of Bourbon (1734-59). Shows how structures and public spaces helped consolidate royal authority and refashion the city into a royal capital.

Examines the American experience of a group of French liberal aristocrats who had participated in the early years of the French Revolution and subsequently lived as political refugees in Philadelphia from 1793 to 1798.

Examines the relationship between public opinion and U.S. foreign policy. Argues that policy making under intense public scrutiny differs from policy making when no one is looking.

A biography of Frederic C. Howe, a reformer and political activist in Cleveland, New York, and Washington, D.C., in the Progressive and New Deal eras (1890s to 1930s).

A collection of essays by eleven scholars of Russian history, art, literature, cinema, philosophy, and theology that track key shifts in the production, circulation, and consumption of the Russian icon from Peter the Great's Enlightenment to the post-Soviet revival of the Orthodox Church.