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Hardcover : $145.00 Buy	Royal Persian Paintings The Qajar Epoch 1779-1924 Edited by Layla S. Diba and Maryam Ekhtiar I.B. Tauris Iranian art of the Qajar period (1779-1925) has long been neglected and is little understood. This beautifully illustrated book for the first time...

Trade Paperback : $21.95 Buy	The Obstacle Race The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work Germaine Greer Tauris Parke Paperbacks If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Under the Sign of Saturn Essays Susan Sontag Picador This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of...

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The Ransom of Russian Art

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground...

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Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	The Fate of a Gesture Jackson Pollock and Post-War American Art Carter Ratcliff Farrar, Straus and Giroux Flinging his colors onto the canvas, pouring and dripping his paints in a quintessentially American gesture, Jackson Pollock redefined the art of painting. It...

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Beyond the Brillo Box The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective Arthur Coleman Danto Farrar, Straus and Giroux Arthur C. Danto's ground-breaking collection of interconnected essays grapples with the most challenging issues in art today, among them the problems of...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Court Culture In Dresden From Renaissance to Baroque Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly Palgrave Macmillan This book is an investigation of the intellectual and artistic world of Germany's most important Protestant court from 1553 to 1733.

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	Women and Art in South Africa Marion Arnold Palgrave Macmillan In this pioneering study, Marion Arnold explores the connections, hitherto hidden or neglected, between women and art in South Africa. By doing so, she...

Trade Paperback : $51.00 Buy	Dance in the City Helen Thomas Palgrave Macmillan This exciting new and original collection locates dance within the spectrum of urban life in late modernity, through a range of theoretical perspectives. ...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Religion, Art, and Visual Culture A Cross-Cultural Reader Edited by S. Brent Plate Palgrave Macmillan Religion, Art, and Visual Culture gathers together the most current scholarship on art, religion, visual culture, and cultural studies. The book approaches the...

Trade Paperback : $31.95 Buy	Impressions of French Modernity Art and Literature in France 1850-1900 Edited by Richard Hobbs Manchester University Press International specialists in French art and literature come together in this volume to investigate modernité through painting, sculpture, the novel,...

Trade Paperback : $27.95 Buy	History Painting Reassessed The Representation of History in Contemporary Art Edited by David Green and Peter Seddon Manchester University Press History painting was once the most prestigious and ambitious genre of art to be found in the salons and academies of Europe. Its dramatic decline in status in...

Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	In Contact With the Gods? Directors Talk Theatre Edited by Maria M. Delgado and Paul Heritage Manchester University Press Rarely has the private world of the director in the rehearsal room been so frankly and entertainingly opened. In addition to the art and craft of directing,...

Trade Paperback : $31.95 Buy	The Independent Group Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1945-1959 Anne Massey Manchester University Press This study looks at the artists, designers and writers who formed the Independent Group in the early 1950s including such influential figures as Richard...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Sources of Architectural Form A Critical History of Western Design Theory Mark Gelerntner Manchester University Press Sources of Architectural Form provides a critical history of Western architecture theory from the ancient world to the present day. It focuses on design...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Women in Italian Renaissance Art Gender, Representation and Identity Paola Tinagli Manchester University Press This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. It presents a view of the interaction between...

Trade Paperback : $28.95 Buy	Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art Manchester Medieval Studies Christa Grossinger Manchester University Press This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of...

Trade Paperback : $26.95 Buy	Women in the Victorian Art World Edited by Clarissa Campbell Orr Manchester University Press This fully illustrated text examines women in the Victorian art world, in relation to femininity and the feminist movement. Academics, including Deborah...

Trade Paperback : $74.95 Buy	Facing the Public Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution Critical Perspectives in Art History Anthony Halliday Manchester University Press Portraits were the most widely commissioned paintings in 18th-century France, but most portraits were produced for private consumption, and were therefore seen...

Hardcover : $74.95 Buy	Political Posters in Central and Eastern Europe 1945-1995 Signs of the Times James Aulich and Marta Sylvestrova Manchester University Press The political poster was one of the most widely discredited and closely policed aspects of cultural life in the former communist bloc. The poster's history is...

Trade Paperback : $21.95 Buy	Traveling Light Photography, Travel and Visual Culture The Critical Image Peter Osborne Manchester University Press This is a thoroughly illustrated study of the close and continuous relationship between two of modern culture’s central phenomena: the photographic image...

Hardcover : $26.95 Buy	Architecture and Design For the Family in Britain, 1900-1970 Studies in Design David Jeremiah Manchester University Press This book tracks the complex and important relationship between the "ideal" and the "commonplace" in the social purpose of architecture and design intended for...

Hardcover : $101.95 Buy	Bihzad, Master of Persian Painting Ebadollah Bahari I.B. Tauris Although Kamal al-Din Bihzad (1460-1535) is acknowledged to be one of the greatest masters of Persian painting, there has to date been no comprehensive study...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Time and the Image Critical Perspectives in Art History Edited by Carolyn Bailey Gill Manchester University Press This new collection of essays questions the old orthodoxies of the image as a formal object. The contributors take note of the new condition of the image and...

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