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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Painting the Novel

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    Book SynopsisPainting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting â a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names or artworks, but also artistic styles and conventions, in an attempt to define the generic constitution of their fictions. In this, the novelists took part in the discussion of the sister arts, not only by pointing to the affinities between them but also, more importantly, by recognising their potential to inform one another; in other words, they expressed a conviction that the theory of a new genre can be successfully rendered through meta-pictorial analogies. By tracing the uses of painting in eighteenth-century novelistic discourse, this book sheds new light on the history of the so-callTrade ReviewFar-ranging and deeply researched, Painting the Novel is an essential read for eighteenth-century scholars and a must for word and image students.Professor Peter de Voogd, University of UtrechtThe debate between realism and the ideal had been an ongoing debate in art criticism long before it entered performance and criticism in narrative fiction. Jakub Lipski’s excellent book surveys this encounter between painting and prose fiction as it played out in British fiction of the eighteenth century from Defoe to Sterne, from Fielding to Radcliffe, from more or less attempts to capture "real life" in the presentation of character to ideal figures of beauty such as Sophia Western, from the real world of Smollett’s tavern scenes to the idealised illustrations of Burney’s Evelina, and finally to the mixture of ideally sentimentalised characters with the often grotesque landscape of the Gothic. If Hogarth and Guido Reni do not quite bookend the discussion, they play important roles. Lipski’s book appears at a time when descriptive moments in works of fiction—moments outside the flow of narrative—are drawing ever greater critical attention. His work makes an important contribution to that discussion.Professor Maximillian E. Novak, University of CaliforniaIn this admirably broad and wide-ranging study Jakub Lipski sheds new light on the relationship between the novel and the visual arts, especially painting, in the eighteenth century. Moving beyond the familiar accounts of the ‘sisters arts’ he carefully elucidates a deeper engagement, demonstrating that novelists frequently evoked the pictorial to work through and better understand their own practice in a period of generic instability and turmoil. Through a series of compelling case studies, illuminated by welcome attention to paratextual features alongside painterly motifs and explicit references, the complexity of the entanglement between the verbalTable of ContentsEntry

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  • Taylor & Francis Imaging Stuart Family Politics

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  • Taylor & Francis Race Representation Photography in 19thCentury Memphis

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  • Taylor & Francis Picturing Marie Leszczinska 17031768

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Late Byzantium Reconsidered The Arts of the Palaiologan Era in the Mediterranean

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  • Taylor & Francis Curatorial Challenges Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Curating

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Survey Practices and Landscape Photography Across the Globe

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd American Art in Asia

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    Book SynopsisThis book challenges existing notions of what is "American" and/or "Asian" art, moving beyond the identity issues that have dominated art-world conversations of the 1980s and the 1990s and aligning with new trends and issues in contemporary art today, e.g. the Global South, labor, environment, and gender identity.Table of Contents1. American Art as Cultural Hegemony: 1945–1989 Kyunghee PyunPART I: Post-War American Art in Postcolonial Asia2. Leaving Yourself Behind: Bourke-White, Zarina, and the Partition of British IndiaAsma Naeem3. What Can Ad Reinhardt Teach Us About Asian Art? Michael J. Hatch4. Painting as Information: The Reception of Abstract Expressionism in Japan Kenji Kajiya5. Minimalism: A View from Singapore Russell StorerPART II: American Artists in Asia Today6. The (im)Possibilities of Cultural Collectivity: American Artist in Setouchi James Jack7. Rare Earth Image Bank: Extraction Geology and Stock Photos, from Wyoming to Inner Mongolia David Kelley8. Interstates and Inner States: Howard Henry Chen Việt LêPart III: Locating Asia in American Art9. Mapping Lee Mingwei’s Transnational Art Practice Leslie Ureña10. American War in Việt Nam: We Are Besides Ourselves Hồng- n Trương11. America in China: Cross-cultural Confluences in Contemporary American ArtMichelle Yun MapplethorpePART IV: Connecting Asia and the Americas in the Global South12. Buying and Selling American Taste: Pop Art and the Inscription of Violence as Artistic Strategy in Colombia Jennifer Burris13. Considering Dhaka Art Summit from a CHamoru Perspective: A Walk Through its Institutional History Diana Campbell 14. The Artpologists: Rethinking Food Justice in Central AsiaZhanara Nauruzbayeva 15. Points of Intersection: Realigning Future Art Histories Michelle Lim

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art

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  • Taylor & Francis Architecture of Threshold Spaces

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art

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    Book SynopsisFirst published in 1983, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art provides a lucid account of two divergent tendencies in the study of aesthetics. At the one extreme, traditional aestheticians have assumed that art and literature are wholly independent, following only the laws and inspirations of artists and artistic movements, and that the question of aesthetic value is accordingly unproblematic. At the other extreme, some sociologists have treated works of art as no more than manifestations of the socio-economic circumstances which produce them, arguing that aesthetic value is therefore entirely relative matter. Janet Wolff shows how both the extreme positions are untenable, and argues convincingly that we must accept that the conceptions and criteria of aesthetic value are socially constructed and inevitably ideological, while stopping short of the reductionist alternative which fails to recognise the irreducible questions of pleasure and of aesthetic discourse. This booTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. The Sociological Critique of Aesthetics 2. Sociology versus Aesthetics 3. Political and Aesthetic Value 4. The Nature of the Aesthetic 5. The Specificity of Art 6. Towards a Sociological Aesthetics Bibliography Index

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Cosmopolitanism and Womens Fashion in Ghana

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Counterfactualism in the Fine Arts

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Robert Seymour and NineteenthCentury Print Culture

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  • Taylor & Francis Art and Nature in the Anthropocene

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Ecphrastic Shields in GraecoRoman Literature

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Visualizing the Body in Art Anatomy and Medicine since 1800

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Pleasure of Pictures

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  • Taylor & Francis Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place 5001500

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Charles Robert Cockerell Architect in Time

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  • Taylor & Francis Terrorism and the Arts

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf

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  • Taylor & Francis Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Power and Fluidity of Girlhood in Henry

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    Book SynopsisThis book is the first to examine Henry Darger's conceptual and visual representation of girls and girlhood.Specifically, Leisa Rundquist charts the artist's use of little girl imageryhis direct appropriations from mainstream sources as well as girls modified to meet his needsin contexts that many scholars have read as puerile and psychologically disturbed. Consequently, this inquiry qualifies the intersexed aspects of Darger's protagonists as well as addresses their inherent cute and little associations that signal multivocal meanings often in conflict with each other. Rundquist engages Darger's art through thematic analyses of the artist's writings, mature works, collages, and ephemeral materials.This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, art and gender studies, sociology, and contemporary art.Trade Review"Following an excellent introduction to Darger scholarship, Rundquist (Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville) adeptly mines intersections of popular visual culture, Darger’s obsessively devout Catholicism, and art historical method, extracting compelling insights from a challenging body of images that range from the pastoral to violently horrific. ... Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."--CHOICE"[Rundquist's] focused study is an important contribution to Darger scholarship, in part precisely because it privileges social nd material cultural critique."--The Burlington Magazine"In this admirably concise volume, Leisa Rundquist works diligently to normalize Henry Darger. ... [T]he power of this book is in her close analysis of Darger’s sources and culture, especially the specific strands of influence from his devotion to Roman Catholicism."--The OutsiderTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Littleness; 2. Girls on the Run; 3. The Power of Cuteness; Epilogue: Attentive Aesthetics

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  • Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the TwentyFirst Century

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