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Plato on Art and Beauty
Philosophers in Depth

Palgrave Macmillan
This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic, but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and...
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The Photobook
From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond

I.B. Tauris
The photograph found a home in the book before it won for itself a place on the gallery wall. Only a few years after the birth of photography, the publication...
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Unveiling Fashion
Business, Culture, and Identity in the Most Glamorous Industry
INSEAD Business Press

Palgrave Macmillan
Proposing a comprehensive account of the global fashion industry, this book aims to present fashion as a social and cultural fact. Drawing on six principles...
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The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art

Palgrave Macmillan
The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art is the first book to cross the disciplines of art history and disability studies. Millett-Gallant visually analyzes...
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The (Moving) Pictures Generation
The Cinematic Impulse in Downtown New York Art and Film

Palgrave Macmillan
An aesthetic exploration of New York artists who made film and film-related work, and who crossed the boundaries between high art and popular culture....
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Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760
Architecture and Iconography
Early Modern History: Society and Culture

Palgrave Macmillan
This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical...
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The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London
1850-1939

Manchester University Press
This is the first book to investigate the modern London art market, establishing the central importance of London for the development of the modern retail...
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A Hero's Many Faces
Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments
The Holocaust and its Contexts

Palgrave Macmillan
Raoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who...
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Timed Out
Art and the Transnational Caribbean
Rethinking Art's Histories

Manchester University Press
Timed Out is a pioneering study of modern and contemporary art in the aftermath of empire. It addresses the current ‘global turn’ in the study of art by way of...
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Decadence
An Annotated Anthology

Manchester University Press
The tradition of Decadent writing in the 19th century remains a fascinating current in the evolution of modern literature. This new anthology brings together...

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Urban Green
Architecture for the Future

Palgrave Macmillan
Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural...
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Leadership Craft, Leadership Art

Palgrave Macmillan
Leadership is a creative process in the same way that painting, acting, drawing or other arts are a creative process and the essence of that creative process...
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What is a Picture?
Depiction, Realism, Abstraction

Palgrave Macmillan
Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places seeing at the centre of an original theory of...
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Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts

Palgrave Macmillan
Looking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature and the arts,this volume discusses the economic, political and environmental...
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Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics
Art, Architecture, Literature, Music
The New Middle Ages

Palgrave Macmillan
Lively and deeply productive discussions have focused on the topics of “magnificence” and “the sublime” in the art and literature of antiquity, the...
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Art and Disability
The Social and Political Struggles Facing Education

Palgrave Macmillan
In the past few decades, making art has been used in special education classrooms as a way of offering psychic freedom, if not bodily freedom, by providing a...
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Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art
The New Middle Ages

Palgrave Macmillan
Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art demonstrates that remembering Saint Francis of Assisi should take place on many levels. The authors in this...
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Visual Art and Education in an Era of Designer Capitalism
Psychoanalysis, Education and Social Transformation

Palgrave Macmillan
The oral eye is a metaphor for the dominance of global designer capitalism. It refers to the consumerism of a designer aesthetic by the 'I' of the...
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Contemporary Costume Film: Space, Place and the Past

British Film Institute
Addressing a wide range of important recent films including "Orlando", "Sense and Sensibility", "Portrait of a Lady" and "Gosford Park", this volume charts the...
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Glorious Eccentrics
Modernist Women Painting and Writing

Palgrave Macmillan
This book explores the life and art of seven extraordinary women of the late nineteenth and twentieth century, who had a tremendous if not yet fully...
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Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe
Comparing Cultures of Remembrance, c. 1790-1840
War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850

Palgrave Macmillan
The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and...
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Telling Ruins in Latin America
New Concepts in Latino American Cultures

Palgrave Macmillan
As a merger of past, present and future, and as a material embodiment of change, the ruin offers a fertile locale for competing cultural stories about...
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Queens in Stone and Silver
The Creation of a Visual Imagery of Queenship in Capetian France
The New Middle Ages

Palgrave Macmillan
Queens in Stone and Silver makes the intriguing argument that royal women from the early twelfth through the mid-thirteenth centuries exercised cultural...
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The Face of Queenship
Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I
Queenship and Power

Palgrave Macmillan
The Face of Queenship investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings in representations of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries. By attending...