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Taylor & Francis Ltd Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Visual Culture and Gender
Book SynopsisIssues and themes in and around gender and visual culture have generated a huge and complex scholarly literature. Now, to enable users to make sense of an explosion of scholarship, this new title from Routledgeâs Major Works publishing programme answers the need for an authoritative reference work. In four volumes, the collection's editor has carefully curated the foundational and the very best cutting-edge research. With a full index, and thoughtful introduction, newly written by the editor, Visual Culture and Gender traces the progress of research in this field, and highlights the challenges for future explorations.
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Taylor & Francis Theology and the Arts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theories of art 2 2 From Winckelmann to Baudelaire
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theories of art 3 3 From Impressionism to Kandinsky 003 Thoeries of Art
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Visual Literacy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Visual Literacy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Visual Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Walter Benjamin Religion and Aesthetics Rethinking Religion through the Arts
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Taylor & Francis Doubt
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Games
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Games
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination
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Taylor & Francis Ltd What Photography Is
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Taylor & Francis Ltd What Photography Is
Book SynopsisIn What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue with Roland Barthes''s Camera Lucida, Elkins argues that photography is also about meaninglessness--its apparently endless capacity to show us things that we do not want or need to see--and also about pain, because extremely powerful images can sear permanently into our consciousness. Extensively illustrated with a surprising range of images, the book demonstrates that what makes photography uniquely powerful is its ability to express the difficulty--physical, psychological, emotional, and aesthetic--of the act of seeing.Trade Review"The most exciting feature for me of this fascinating book was its articulation of the importance of writing in our engagement with photography. Writing for Elkins means the capacity to elicit articulate intensity in the tracking of the intricate turns and balances that can, and should, take place in a mind responding to expressive non-discursive materials. Here the distinctive feature of photography as a medium is not the punctum or the pursuit of sublimity but the photograph's powers for producing self-reflexive attention to how the work makes us see our own seeing--a power that is at risk when we become proud of the rhetorics that displace what the engagements of distinctive writing can bring to our attention." Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley"In an impassioned dialogue with Roland Barthes, Jim Elkins argues that photography is not 'about' representation and memory—those aspects of the Barthean punctum; rather, photography is 'at war with our attention.' If we focus on its essential materiality and physicality, photography shows us things we would often prefer not to see—the 'splotches and stains, cracks, unpleasant shadows, errant dust' in our natural environment as well as the human pain too hard to look at and yet unavoidably there. What is given by photography is the 'grainy substance of the world' in all its irritating contradictions, its 'displeasures'--the aporias that make the act of seeing itself so difficult. Elkins’s disillusioned meditation on how photography actually works upon the viewer is as original as it is profound." Marjorie Perloff, author of Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media and Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the 21st Century 'The most exciting feature for me of this fascinating book was its articulation of the importance of writing in our engagement with photography. Writing for Elkins means the capacity to elicit articulate intensity in the tracking of the intricate turns and balances that can, and should, take place in a mind responding to expressive non-discursive materials. Here the distinctive feature of photography as a medium is not the punctum or the pursuit of sublimity but the photograph's powers for producing self-reflexive attention to how the work makes us see our own seeing--a power that is at risk when we become proud of the rhetorics that displace what the engagements of distinctive writing can bring to our attention.' - Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley'In an impassioned dialogue with Roland Barthes, Jim Elkins argues that photography is not "about" representation and memory—those aspects of the Barthean punctum; rather, photography is "at war with our attention." If we focus on its essential materiality and physicality, photography shows us things we would often prefer not to see—the "splotches and stains, cracks, unpleasant shadows, errant dust" in our natural environment as well as the human pain too hard to look at and yet unavoidably there. What is given by photography is the "grainy substance of the world" in all its irritating contradictions, its "displeasures"--the aporias that make the act of seeing itself so difficult. Elkins’s disillusioned meditation on how photography actually works upon the viewer is as original as it is profound.' Marjorie Perloff, author of Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media and Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the 21st CenturyTable of ContentsPreface 1. Writing 2. Selenite, Ice, Salt 3. From the Green River to the Brunswick Peninsula 4. A Drop of Water, World Trade Center Dust 5. The Rapatronic Camera 6. Lingqi
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Painting the Cannons Roar
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Natural Order and Other Texts Reconstructing Philosophy from the Artists Viewpoint Ashgate Translations in Philosophy Theology Religion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Representing Berlin Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The ArtistOperas of Pfitzner Krenek and Hindemith
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Taylor & Francis Between Union and Liberation
Book SynopsisThe essays collected here investigate art made by women in South Africa between 1910, the year of Union, and 1994, the year of the first democratic election. During this period, complex political circumstances and the impact of modernism in South Africa affected the production of images and objects. The essays explore the ways in which the socio-political circumstances associated with twentieth-century modernity had a paradoxical impact on women. If some were empowered, others were disadvantaged: while some were able to further their social and cultural development and expression, the advancement of others was impeded. The contributors study the lives and achievements of women - named and un-named, black and white, and from different cultural groups and social contexts - and consider objects and images that are historically associated with both 'art' and 'craft'. In all the essays, gender theory is related to South African circumstances. The volume explores gender theory in relation tTrade Review'This is a remarkable celebration of the creative endeavours of women artists in south Africa from 1910 to 1994' Women's History Magazine ’Between Union and Liberation is an admirable book and fulfils its task competently within its specified parameters... it makes a constructive contribution to the discourse.’ De Art April 2006 ’This is an important book and its essays make significant contributions to the field of art history in South Africa. They bring forth new material and offer fresh insights into old material. Gathered here, they confront gender biases and sexism within art historical discourse and social practice. We can only benefit from such a book.’ H-New Book Review, Feb 06 ’Between Union and Liberation: Women Artists in South Africa 1910-1994 is a valuable book for several reasons...The book underscores tensions among people with similar skin colors, thus it counters the popular notion (troublingly prevalent outside of South Africa) that identity in the twentieth century was reduced to black and white.’ African ArtsTable of ContentsContents: Visual culture in context: the implications of Union and Liberation, Marion Arnold; Florence Phillips, patronage and the arts at the time of Union, Jillian Carman; European modernism and African domicile: women painters and the search for identity, Marion Arnold; Constance Stuart Larrabee's photographs of the Ndzundza Ndebele: performance and history beyond the modernist frame, Brenda Danilowitz; Art, gender ideology and Afrikaner nationalism - a case study, Liese van der Watt; Technologies and transformations: baskets, women and change in 20th-century KwaZulu-Natal, Nessa Leibhammer; Breaking the mould: women ceramists in KwaZulu-Natal, Wilma Cruise; On pins and needles: gender politics and embroidery projects before the first democratic election, Brenda Schmahmann; Narratives of migration in the works of Noria Mabasa and Mmakgabo Sebidi, Jacqueline Nolte; Representing regulation - rendering resistance: female bodies in the art of Penny Siopis, Brenda Schmahmann; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner British Art and Visual Culture since 1750 New Readings
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Taylor & Francis At the Edges of Vision
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gertrude Stein Woman without Qualities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Surrealism Feminism Psychoanalysis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Iconoclasm Contested Objects Contested Terms SubjectObject New Studies in Sculpture
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Taylor & Francis Giacometti Critical Essays
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Taylor & Francis Painting Politics and the Struggle for the Ãcole de Paris 1944â1964
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Taylor & Francis Memory Masculinity and National Identity in British Visual Culture 19141930
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Taylor & Francis Scottish Art since 1960
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Taylor & Francis Nouveau Rïisme 1960s France and the Neoavantgarde
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Taylor & Francis A Fine Regard Essays in Honor of Kirk Varnedoe
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Taylor & Francis The New York School Poets and the NeoAvantGarde Between Radical Art and Radical Chic
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Taylor & Francis Landscape Art and Identity in 1950s Britain
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Taylor & Francis Art and Visual Culture on the French Riviera 19561971
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Taylor & Francis Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada
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Taylor & Francis Alchemy in Contemporary Art
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Taylor & Francis The Nabis and Intimate Modernism
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Taylor & Francis Designing UNESCO
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Art as Music Music as Poetry Poetry as Art from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond
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Taylor & Francis Art History and the Senses
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Taylor & Francis Maruja Mallo and the Spanish AvantGarde
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Art and Classical Myth
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Taylor & Francis The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts 5 Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture Hardcover
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Taylor & Francis Visual Communication for Social Work Practice
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Taylor & Francis Shakespeare Caravaggio and the Indistinct Regard AngloItalian Renaissance Studies
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Taylor & Francis The Arabesque from Kant to Comics
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Taylor & Francis Disability and Art History
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