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Borderline Bodies offers original interpretations of visual representations of the human body as both bounded and porous, fortified and vulnerable, mobile and constrainedーsubject to borders yet cap……続きを見る

Frida Kahlo at Home explores the influence of Mexican culture and tradition, the Blue House and other places Frida travelled to and called home, on her life and work. Fully illustrated, the book fea……続きを見る

A sweeping analysis of "archetypal realism" in Latin American literature and art. Beyond Individualism examines the portrayal of collective identities over two centuries in Latin American literature……続きを見る

How did workers experience cut glass during its cultural heyday? Rather than privilege the stories of factory owners or wealthy consumers, Undercut: Cut Glass in Working-Class Life During the Long G……続きを見る

Protest posters emerged because of the absence of a public space. The artist Luis Trápaga Brito opened an unauthorized project, a house gallery he called El Círculo, which he ran together with activ……続きを見る

Few artists were as determined to shape their own legacy as James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Fiercely protective of his reputation, he denounced would-be biographers, published The Gentle Art of Makin……続きを見る

Feeling Exposed examines the relationship between early photography and emerging concerns about privacy in nineteenth-century America. While scholars have often located the eruption of privacy anxie……続きを見る

Feeling Exposed examines the relationship between early photography and emerging concerns about privacy in nineteenth-century America. While scholars have often located the eruption of privacy anxie……続きを見る

At the close of the twentieth century, black artists began to figure prominently in the mainstream American art world for the first time. Thanks to the social advances of the civil rights movement a……続きを見る