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The exquisite corpse: chance and collaboration in surrealism's parlor game

The exquisite corpse: chance and collaboration in surrealism's parlor game




Review “This corpse is very living—and here, explored from many vantage points, performative, theoretical, ...
Material Identities (New Interventions in Art History)

Material Identities (New Interventions in Art History)


Joanna Sofaer



Book Description Material Identities examines the way that individuals use material objects as tools for conveying certai...
Art and Thought (New Interventions in Art History)

Art and Thought (New Interventions in Art History)


Dana Arnold, Margaret Iversen



Review "Smart and savvy contribution to a list of recent anthologies that work at putting the spirit back into art histor...
Handleiding voor de determinatie van harde dierlijke materialen: bot, gewei, ivoor, hoorn, schildpad, balein en hoef

Handleiding voor de determinatie van harde dierlijke materialen: bot, gewei, ivoor, hoorn, schildpad, balein en hoef


Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen



About the Author Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen is a fellow researcher at the Amsterdam Archaeological Centre of the University ...
Kant's Model of the Mind: A New Interpretation of Transcendental Idealism

Kant's Model of the Mind: A New Interpretation of Transcendental Idealism


Wayne Waxman



Kant's Model of the Mind: A New Interpretation of Transcendental Idealism...
Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930

Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930


Roger Benjamin



Review "This study investigates how North African artists were influenced by French artists -- and vice versa.... This bo...
The grid book

The grid book


Hannah Higgins



Review "Here is a natural storyteller, with scholarly depth, apparently motivated by delight. Where anothe...
Origins, imitation, conventions: representation in the visual arts

Origins, imitation, conventions: representation in the visual arts


James S. Ackerman



About the Author James S. Ackerman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard University, is the ...
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts


Douglas Kahn



From Publishers Weekly "Sound saturates the arts of this century," writes Kahn, a professor of media arts at the Universi...
A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts (Facts on File Library of American History)

A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts (Facts on File Library of American History)


Carol Kort, Liz Sonneborn



From Library Journal This current A-Z title is a selective biographical encyclopedia of women artists from the United Sta...
Elsevier's Dictionary of Art History Terms: French English-English French

Elsevier's Dictionary of Art History Terms: French English-English French




Elsevier's Dictionary of Art History Terms: French English-English French...
Realist Vision

Realist Vision


Professor Peter Brooks



Review “Brooks makes these authors come alive. Reading about them and their work is like reading a good novel. Thi...
Perspective as Symbolic Form

Perspective as Symbolic Form


Erwin Panofsky



Review "Here at last is a published translation of this classic essay, available for many years in every major European l...
The Creation of Modern Athens: Planning the Myth

The Creation of Modern Athens: Planning the Myth


Eleni Bastéa



Review "...a beautifully made book..." Journal of Modern Greek Studies Book Description The Creation of Modern ...
Imagining London, 1770-1900

Imagining London, 1770-1900


Alan Robinson



Review 'Alan Robinson's Imagining London 1770-1900, offers the reader a striking image of London's myriad representations...
What is a Picture?: Depiction, Realism, Abstraction

What is a Picture?: Depiction, Realism, Abstraction


Michael Newall



About the Author MICHAEL NEWALL is Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent, UK. He is winner of...
The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine

The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine


Deborah Wynne



Review ...offers significant new insights into the sensation novel and the process of serial publication. Choice A...
Typography: Design and Practice

Typography: Design and Practice


John Lewis



Typography: Design and Practice...
Surrealism and Cinema

Surrealism and Cinema


Michael Richardson



Review 'I so enjoyed reading this book! Its arguments about surrealism and film are lucid and persuasive and presented wi...
Picturing the Self: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture

Picturing the Self: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture


Gen Doy



About the Author Gen Doy is Professor of the History and Theory of Visual Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester and ...
Fashioning the Feminine: Representation and Women's Fashion from the Fin De Siecle to the Present

Fashioning the Feminine: Representation and Women's Fashion from the Fin De Siecle to the Present


Cheryl Buckley, Hilary Fawcett



Review Journal of Women's History, Vol. 17 No. 1. Review by Mary Lynn Stewart - "Fashioning the Feminine stands out for i...
The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia

The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia


Victor Tupitsyn



Review "The Museological Unconscious is a compelling and challenging analysis of the dynamics between Russi...
What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting, Using the Language of Alchemy

What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting, Using the Language of Alchemy


James Elkins



From When one looks at a Monet, what exactly is one looking at? A framed painting, surely. And, too, as traditional art ...
Women in the Stalin Era (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History)

Women in the Stalin Era (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History)


Melanie Ilic



About the Author Melanie Ilic is Senior Lecturer in History and Women's Studies, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Hig...
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art


Sybil Gordon Kantor



From Library Journal A handful of figures contributed to the establishment of modern art in the U.S. museum community: Juli...
Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks

Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks


Robert L. Gambone



From the Inside Flap A revelation of the great American realist painter's early work as a cartoonist and illustrator ...
St William of York

St William of York


Christopher Norton



Review An excellent addition to the number of individual studies of twelfth-century prelates. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW(A...
The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)

The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)


Paul Zanker



Language Notes Text: English, German (translation) ...
Colors of Enchantment: Theater, Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts of the Middle East

Colors of Enchantment: Theater, Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts of the Middle East


Sherifa Zuhur



About the Author Sherifa Zuhur is a historian affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley and the ...
The Emblem

The Emblem


John Manning



Review The Emblem is impressively broad in scope and is sure to become the standard introductory guide to the genre. Time...
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience With a New Preface

American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience With a New Preface


Barbara Novak



Review "The best book ever written on the subject."--Hilton Kramer, The New York Times Book Review "Possibly the most im...
Museum Exhibition (Heritage: Care-Preseravtion-Management)

Museum Exhibition (Heritage: Care-Preseravtion-Management)


David Dean



Review 'This is an ambitious undertaking for a single volume, but it does meet a need for a good overview of all of the i...
Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)


Magali M. Carrera



Review "This book effectively integrates art history, literary history, and political and social history... It will appea...
Mysterium Magnum: Michelangelo's Tondo Doni

Mysterium Magnum: Michelangelo's Tondo Doni


Regina Stefaniak



About the Author Regina Stefaniak, Ph.D. (1989) in History of Art, University of California at Berkeley, is an independen...
The Crucified Mind: Rafael Alberti and the Surrealist Ethos in Spain (Monografías A)

The Crucified Mind: Rafael Alberti and the Surrealist Ethos in Spain (Monografías A)


Robert Havard



About the Author Robert Harvard is Professor of Spanish at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. ...
Expressionist Film -- New Perspectives (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

Expressionist Film -- New Perspectives (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)


Dietrich Scheunemann



Review With a nod to the pioneering work of Siegfried Kracauer and Lotte Eisner, (the book) proposes to overcome the redu...
Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House, 1660-1880

Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House, 1660-1880


Richard L. Wilson, Alan Mackley



Review "When one lives in Paradise, how hard it must be to ascend in heart and mind to heaven." --Lady Frederick Cavendis...
The Victorian Marionette Theatre (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)

The Victorian Marionette Theatre (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)


John Mccormick



From The historian and puppeteer John McCormick conjures Britain's nineteenth-century marionette theatre, where travelli...
Baudelaire and the Art of Memory

Baudelaire and the Art of Memory


J. A. Hiddleston



Review `It is in the chapter on landscape and the painting of modern life that some of the most valuable details and insi...
Art at Auction in 17th-Century Amsterdam

Art at Auction in 17th-Century Amsterdam


John Michael Montias



Art at Auction in 17th-Century Amsterdam...
William Blake and the Art of Engraving

William Blake and the Art of Engraving




Review 'this is a painstaking study that enlightens both the technical and literary understanding of Blake's works.' The ...
James Coleman (October Files)

James Coleman (October Files)


George Baker



About the Author H. Sebastian Seung is Professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Brain ...
Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas

Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas


Coco Fusco



Review Corpus Delecti explodes...stereotypes, not by browbeating the Angloreader...but by offering a 'panorama' of perspe...
The Traveller in the Evening - The Last Works of William Blake

The Traveller in the Evening - The Last Works of William Blake


Morton D. Paley



Review `Review from previous edition superbly lucid and learned account of Blake's late works' Seamus Perry, Times Litera...
Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages (October Books)

Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages (October Books)


Ed Ruscha



Review "This delightful book is as much artistic biography as cultural history." — Barbara A. MacAdam, ARTNEWS "T...
Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity (Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics)

Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity (Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics)


Beat Wyss



Review "These are essential source books and, althouggh very different, are fine examples of perceptive and concrete anal...
Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism: From Formalism to Beyond Postmodernism

Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism: From Formalism to Beyond Postmodernism


David Carrier



Review “[C]arrier's careful and insightful analysis of Krauss's criticism has prompted me not only re-read Krauss'...
Transfigurations of Hellenism: Aspects of Late Antique Art in Egypt, AD 250-700 (Probleme der Ägyptologie)

Transfigurations of Hellenism: Aspects of Late Antique Art in Egypt, AD 250-700 (Probleme der Ägyptologie)


László Török



About the Author László Török, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1992), is Research Profes...