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  • The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture
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    The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture

    The universal act of dressing-shared by both men and women, young and old, rich and poor, minority and majority-has shaped human interactions, communicated hopes and fears about the future, and embodied what it means to be Somali. Heather Marie Akou...
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  • Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries
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    Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries

    In this pioneering book, Christopher Whitehead provides an overview and critique of art interpretation practices in museums and galleries. Covering the philosophy and sociology of art, traditions in art history and art display, the psychology of the...
    $105.32

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  • Women Making Art Women Making Art
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    Women Making Art

    Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognised altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realise the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to...
    $100.31

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  • Englishness and National Culture Englishness and National Culture
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    Englishness and National Culture

    In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a...
    $119.12

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  • Transmissibility Transmissibility
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    Transmissibility

    This book examines transmissibility to remind us why the vitality and epistemic significance of an artwork is anachronistic and futural. Transmissibility: Writing Aesthetic History performs a transdisciplinary philosophy of aesthetic history via the work...
    $375.76

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  • Transmedia Selves Transmedia Selves
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    Transmedia Selves

    This book examines the mediated shift in the contemporary human condition, focusing on the ways in which we synthesise with media content in daily life, essentially transmediating ourselves into new forms and (re)creating ourselves across media.Across an...
    $372.01

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  • Just Add Ink Just Add Ink
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    Just Add Ink

    Looking for a outlet that is not technology? Just Add Ink is a way to do that, and it doesn't matter where you are. All you need is a pen and this book.Self-taught watercolor artist Kelly Rockall has put together a collection of 25 full-color 11" x 8.5"...
    $33.53

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  • Poems from Quarantine Poems from Quarantine
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    Poems from Quarantine

    POEMS FROM QUARANTINE is a poetry anthology about the processes of life. It is a collection of poems that were once a scrapbook of poetry brainstorms. The author saved them for when she wouldn't have any inspiration. When the pandemic hit, Kathleen found...
    $40.26

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  • Leave It Behind You Leave It Behind You
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    Leave It Behind You

    All over the United States, a story told through license plates.Barrett Westberg has taken hundreds of pictures of custom license plates and arranged them to tell a tale about the earth, spirituality, religion, politics, relationships, work, fortune,...
    $55.76

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  • I Think I Can, I Think I Can I Think I Can, I Think I Can
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    I Think I Can, I Think I Can

    These whimsical collections of photos appeal to the voyeur in all of us. Each book is inspired by a single, deceptively simple concept-bags in trees, looking upward, items that say "thank you"-and the resulting photo essays are surprisingly illuminating...
    $21.01

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  • A Perfect Red A Perfect Red
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    A Perfect Red

    "You'll finish [Greenfield's] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity."--Houston ChronicleInterweaving mystery, empire, and adventure, Amy Butler...
    $28.01

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  • Journal Under the Wave off Kanagawa, Lined Paperback
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    Journal Under the Wave off Kanagawa, Lined Paperback

    Celebrate the timeless beauty of Japanese art with this lined journal, featuring a masterpiece by a renowned ukiyo-e artist.This lined, paperback journal from Tuttle Publishing features 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa', also known as 'The Great Wave'...
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    Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji
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    Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji

    The full set of 46 glorious prints of Mt Fuji by Japan's most famous artist!This beautiful Japanese-bound volume presents the complete set of prints Thirty-six Views of Fuji, one of the most famous series created by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849),...
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  • Divinely Different, One Man's Enchantment With Santa Fe Divinely Different, One Man's Enchantment With Santa Fe
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    Divinely Different, One Man's Enchantment With Santa Fe

    Award-winning poet Stephen Daingerfield Dunn shows us Santa Fe through his eyes with humor, wit, and human insight. He combines his poetry with beautiful photographs of the natural beauty and majesty of one of North America's most ancient cities, taken...
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  • Dalí's Fátima Secret Dalí's Fátima Secret
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    Dalí's Fátima Secret

    SALVADOR DALÍ'S SEARCH FOR IMMORTALITY WAS NO SECRET, BUT THE PAINTING WAS ...Salvador DalÍ was at the top of his artistic fame, yet had a fear he could not conquer: Death. He considered many ways to achieve immortality, including cloning, freezing...
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  • Through the Eyes of a PFC 1942-1945 Through the Eyes of a PFC 1942-1945
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    Through the Eyes of a PFC 1942-1945

    Since the advent of war, history has recorded the exploits of the generals or the heroic deeds of a few individuals. Although the commanders might acknowledge the exploits of their regiments, history books generally have neglected the cogs in the...
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  • The Collected Works of Doris Ellen Eisen The Collected Works of Doris Ellen Eisen
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    The Collected Works of Doris Ellen Eisen

    The Collected Works of Doris Ellen Eisen is exactly that. It is a compendium of most of my prints and many of my paintings done over the last 40 years. The book is essentially a memoir, an autobiography of my life, mostly in images with a few...
    $149.12

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  • The Complete Works of Doris Ellen Eisen The Complete Works of Doris Ellen Eisen
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    The Complete Works of Doris Ellen Eisen

    The Complete Works of Doris Ellen Eisen: Volume II contains three children's stories that were written and illustrated for my grandchildren. All illustrations are original lithographs. Many of the lithographs are printed in full color, but some of...
    $71.40

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  • MaJaRa's Dream MaJaRa's Dream
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    MaJaRa's Dream

    Is a book about Marci Rodgers' life as a child growing up and loving art. She heads off to college to pursue a degree in business however, she still seeks the world of creation. Through her journey she never gives up her faith, and through determination...
    $47.83

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  • Unchained Fixations Unchained Fixations
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    Unchained Fixations

    Pin Ups. Monsters. Mutants. Mad Scientists. Robots. Zombies. Astronauts. Vampires. Dinosaurs. Aliens. Witches. Insects. This collection of original artwork leaps between myriad exotic destinations from outer space to the stone age, between bedrooms and...
    $37.36

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  • Visual Studies Visual Studies
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    Visual Studies

    Acclaimed author, James Elkins, presents a road map of the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources. He takes the reader down a side road where visual studies becomes a more interesting place.
    $375.76

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  • Impure Acts Impure Acts
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    Impure Acts

    Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural...
    $102.82

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  • God's Gym God's Gym
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    God's Gym

    In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's...
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  • Internet Culture Internet Culture
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    Internet Culture

    The internet has recently grown from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps this new domain of language, politics and identity, locating it within the histories of...
    $362.21

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  • Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture
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    Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture

    First published in 2000. Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? Carla Mazzio and Douglas Trevor have brought together an outstanding group of literary, cultural, and history scholars to answer this intriguing question. Through...
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  • The Spivak Reader The Spivak Reader
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    The Spivak Reader

    Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies...
    $375.76

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  • Fugitive Cultures Fugitive Cultures
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    Fugitive Cultures

    Fugitive Cultures examines how youth are being increasingly subjected to racial stereotyping and violence in various realms of popular culture, especially children's culture. But rather than dismissing popular culture, Henry Giroux addresses its...
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  • The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism
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    The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism

    The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism differentiates the "Social Justice Left" from "Cultural Radicalism" and the various social movements for individual freedom.In The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism, Stanley Aronowitz asks the question,...
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  • The Archaeology of Celtic Art The Archaeology of Celtic Art
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    The Archaeology of Celtic Art

    More wide ranging, both geographically and chronologically, than any previous study, this well-illustrated book offers a new definition of Celtic art. Tempering the much-adopted art-historical approach, D.W. Harding argues for a broader definition of...
    $135.02

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  • Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum
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    Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum

    Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by...
    $375.76

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  • Cinema Taiwan Cinema Taiwan
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    Cinema Taiwan

    This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the cultural politics of contemporary Taiwan film that goes beyond the auterist mode, the nation-state argument and vestiges of the New Cinema.
    $401.63

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  • Colonialist Photography Colonialist Photography
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    Colonialist Photography

    An absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and Europe and American colonialism, using case studies and recent forms of interpretive analysis. Now published for the first time in paperback.
    $375.76

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  • Greek Art in Context Greek Art in Context
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    Greek Art in Context

    This volume gathers together selected contributions which were originally presented at the conference 'Greek Art in Context' at the University of Edinburgh in 2014. Its aim is to introduce the reader to the broad and multifaceted notion of context in...
    $124.11

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  • Marc Chagall Marc Chagall
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    Marc Chagall

    This book follows Chagall's life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being. It takes the reader through the different milieus of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - including the World Wars and the...
    $78.99

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  • Post-Conflict Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina Post-Conflict Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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    Post-Conflict Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina

    At a time of dramatic struggles over monuments around the world, this book examines monuments that have been erected in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) since 1996.Examining the historical precedents for the high rate of monumentbuilding, and...
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  • A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century I A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century I
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    A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century I

    The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. Booming urban theatres, the interaction between commercial practice and theatre, dramas staged during the War of Resistance against Japan and a healthy dialogue between Western and...
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  • Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood
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    Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood

    Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood explores the use of arts in relation to infertility, pregnancy, childbirth and new parenthood. It is the first book to bring all these subjects together into one accessible volume with an...
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  • A Theory of the Tache in Nineteenth-Century Painting A Theory of the Tache in Nineteenth-Century Painting
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    A Theory of the Tache in Nineteenth-Century Painting

    Through a series of close readings, this book looks at the tache as one of the most important features in nineteenth-century modernism. The tache is a potential meeting point between text and image and a pure trace of the artist's body. This book...
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The Arts: Treatments & subjects