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Realism for the masses
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Chris Vials |
Realism for the Masses is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake "America." The literary and artistic creations of American realism … |
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The Truth About Art
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Patrick Doorly |
"Both knowledge and truth are beautiful things, but the Good is other and more beautiful than they." -- Plato, Republic, 508e. This book traces the multiple meanings of art back to their historical r… |
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Critical theory since 1965
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Hazard Adams,Leroy Searle |
"Critical Theory Since 1965 is a collection of theoretical writing of the last twenty years by thirty-eight contemporary theorists and, as background, eighteen important intellectual precursors. It i… |
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Ugliness
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Gretchen E. Henderson |
"'Ugly as sin', 'ugly duckling', 'rear its ugly head'. The word 'ugly' is used freely, yet it is a loaded term: from the simply plain and unsightly to the repulsive and even offensive, definitions sl… |
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