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Empress Maria Theresa and the politics of Habsburg imperial art
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Michael Elia Yonan |
"Explores the intersections between monarchy, gender, and art through an investigation of the visual and architectural culture of the eighteenth-century Habsburg empress Maria Theresa"--Provided by p… |
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Identity Theft The Cultural Colonization Of Contemporary Art
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Jonathan Harris |
"Identity Theft asks some tough questions about the use and place of art in the early twenty-first century: How has it been appropriated as a form of advertising or corporate identity? How is it made… |
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Astro noise
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Laura Poitras |
"Laura Poitras: Astro Noise" is the first solo museum exhibition by artist, filmmaker, and journalist Laura Poitras. This immersive installation of new work builds on topics important to Poitras, inc… |
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Fray
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Julia Bryan-Wilson |
In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the g… |
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David's sling
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Victoria C. Gardner Coates |
"Throughout western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the endurin… |
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Of arms and artists
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Paul J. Staiti |
A "chronicle of the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic...Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull,… |
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Culture as weapon
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Nato Thompson |
"One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us. The production of culture was once the domain of arti… |
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The art of law
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Stefan Huygebaert |
During the late-medieval period, law courts frequently commissioned paintings to grace their Aldermen chambers. Among the favourite themes were the so-called exempla iustitiae, examples of 'good' and… |
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What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?
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Madina Tlostanova |
In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of… |
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Portrait of a Young Painter
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Mary Kay Vaughan |
This book adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Mary Kay Vaughan's chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counter… |
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Photography's Orientalism
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Ali Behdad,Luke Gartlan |
215 pages : 26 cm |
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Strike art!
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Yates McKee |
"The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond Activist art experienced a new beginning in the Seattle anti-globalization protests of 1999, reaching … |
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Organizing independence
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Gonzalo J. Sánchez |
xii, 235 p., [10] p. of plates : 24 cm |
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Visualizing the Nation
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Joan B. Landes |
"Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Landes highlights the widespread circulation of images of the female body, notwithstanding the political leadership's suspicions of t… |
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WochenKlausur
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Wolfgang Zinggl |
"Thirteen projects by WochenKlausur, a group of art activists, show that art can very well play a concrete role in the socio-political field. Not a single work of art is, however, to be seen, and the… |
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Exhibiting Mestizaje
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Karen Mary Davalos |
"In this study, Davalos challenges the sometimes hidden, sometimes blatant assumptions that underlie the practice of creating museum exhibits, and asks what happens when people of Mexican (American) … |
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