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The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables (1862). Over the course of th……続きを見る

Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. For critic Philip Kennicott, the line between art and social criticism is a thin one. In a voice both knowledgeable and compassionate, Kennicott joins ……続きを見る

Berlin: Interest in Berlin remains extremely high as one of the great cutting-edge cultural centers of the world. First of its kind: There is no English-language book on Berlin that tells the city’s……続きを見る

By the time of his death in 1904, critics, arts reformers, and government officials were near universal in their praise of Art Nouveau designer Emile Gallé (1846–1904), whose works they described as……続きを見る

La serie Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009), reimaginada a partir de la original de los años setenta, constituye un hito en la industria del entretenimiento no sólo por su factura audiovisual y narrat……続きを見る

En el libro Cuadernos Amest # 3 titulado "Estética de las imágenes y sus representaciones sociales" se presenta un estudio de la incidencia de las formas estéticas en diversas expresiones culturales……続きを見る

M.E. (meines Erachtens) wirft Fragen auf: Hat Kunst eine gesellschaftliche und politische Verantwortung? Inwiefern ist die Tierbefreiungsphilosophie eine notwendige konsequente Weiterführung klassis……続きを見る

Eine kritische Kulturgeschichte des Terroristen, der sich auf Gott beruft und ihn durch seine Taten leugnet. Aus der Reihe "Unruhe bewahren" in Kooperation mit der Akademie Graz und DIE PRESSE Wenn ……続きを見る

The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we d……続きを見る

From the 1870s to the 1930s, American cartoonists devoted much of their ink to outlandish caricatures of immigrants and minority groups, making explicit the derogatory stereotypes that circulated at……続きを見る

A collection of striking and intimate photographs of Michelle Obama-many never before seen-coupled with personal reflections and behind-the-scenes stories from Official White House Photographer Aman……続きを見る

When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, Eastern Europe saw a new era begin, and the widespread changes that followed extended into the world of art. Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe examines t……続きを見る

Panorama actual sobre las relaciones entre el arte y la antropología. Este libro ofrece un panorama actual sobre las relaciones entre el arte y la antropología, con énfasis en Latinoamérica. Se ……続きを見る

Peter Paul Rubens and the Crisis of the Beati Moderni takes up the question of the issues involved in the formation of recent saints - or Beati moderni (modern Blesseds) as they were called - by the……続きを見る

Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words “Sil……続きを見る

Wars have always been connected to images. From the representation of war on maps, panoramas, and paintings to the modern visual media of photography, film, and digital screens, images have played a……続きを見る

This book elaborates on the social and cultural phenomenon of national schools during the nineteenth century, via the less studied field of sculpture and using Belgium as a case study. The role, imp……続きを見る

"I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to w……続きを見る

In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world……続きを見る

How museums’ visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulation Sarita See argues that collections of stolen artifacts form the foundation of American knowledge production. Nowhere can we apprecia……続きを見る

This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes and techniques by Surrealist artists ……続きを見る

A revered modern artist and Zen teacher offers an inspirational account of how his art has been the expression of a life of social activism. “Awakening,” says Kazuaki Tanahashi, “is to realize the i……続きを見る

In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial Chinaーthe Yuanmingyuan. Known in t……続きを見る

This fascinating book analyzes the socialist past as represented in the national history museums of the majority of the former Yugoslav states. While traveling to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mo……続きを見る

Advancing a Different Modernism analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850……続きを見る

A joyful testament to our ability to rise to new challenges and shape the world for the better, Make Change! collects art celebrating inclusivity, love, and civic engagement in one compelling, petit……続きを見る

»Ein intellektueller Genuss.« DeutschlandRadio Kultur Patchwork, Homo-Ehe, In-vitro-Fertilisation – was die einen als Untergang des Abendlandes bezeichnen, ist für andere eine Öffnung unserer Konzep……続きを見る

The world's cultural heritage is currently not only threatened by time, nature, and human development but increasingly by armed conflicts. We see destructions caused by looting and illicit traffic b……続きを見る

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "cartographic abstraction" – a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of de……続きを見る

Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visual culture as sites for the construction and contes……続きを見る