Art

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Uncanny Creatures

Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture

By Christophe Koné
Subjects: German Studies, Art, Art History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

How dolls have fascinated writers, thinkers, and artists alike in Modern German culture

Uncanny Creatures

Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture

By Christophe Koné
Subjects: German Studies, Art, Art History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

How dolls have fascinated writers, thinkers, and artists alike in Modern German culture

Paris and the Art of Transposition

Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters

By Angie Chau
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Art, Art History
Series: China Understandings Today

How Chinese artists created a transnational imaginary

The Persistence of Dance

Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art

By Erin Brannigan
Subjects: Dance, Art, Art History

Exploring museum-based choreography as a contemporary art medium

Congo Style

From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

By Ruth Sacks
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examines the impact of colonial Belgium’s influence on the Congo’s visual culture

Collecting the Now

On the Financial Side of Postwar Art History

By Michael Maizels
Subjects: Art, Business, Art History

How dealers and artists made pop art fine

Moving Islands

Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific

By Diana Looser
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Art, Dance
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance

An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists

By Ellen Johnston Laing
Subjects: Reference, Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exhaustive reference work on traditional-style Chinese painting in the 20th century, complementing earlier guides to paintings from Imperial China

Marking Modern Movement

Dance and Gender in the Visual Imagery of the Weimar Republic

By Susan Funkenstein
Subjects: German Studies, Theater and Performance, Dance, Art, Gender Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The dynamics between gender and body in Weimar Germany explored through images and case studies

Chinese Paintings in Chinese Publications, 1956–1968

An Annotated Bibliography and Index to the Paintings

By Ellen Johnston Laing
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Reference, Art, Architecture
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A bibliography of publications issued between 1956 and August 1968 that reproduce Chinese paintings in public or private collections

Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art”

A Translation of the 1943 Text with Commentary

By Bonnie McDougall
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The complete text of a key work of Mao Zedong, with an examination of its literary, rather than political or historical, implications

In and Out of Phase

An Episodic History of Art and Music in the 1960s

By Michael Maizels
Subjects: Music, Art, Art History

A new look at the intertwined histories of experimental art and music in the 1960s

Textile Ascendancies

Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in Northern Nigeria

Edited by Elisha Renne & Salihu Maiwada
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Art Theory, Economics
Series: African Perspectives

The authors examine handwoven and manufactured textiles, aesthetic preferences as well as textile production, and trade in northern Nigeria

Beyond Text

Theater and Performance in Print After 1900

By Jennifer Buckley
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Art, Art History

Illuminates the historical and aesthetic relationship of print to avant-garde performance

Jackie Ormes

The First African American Woman Cartoonist

By Nancy Goldstein
Subjects: Biography, African American Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Art

Now in paperback—the biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created

For Dear Life

Women's Decriminalization and Human Rights in Focus

By Carol Jacobsen
Subjects: Media Studies, Gender Studies, Art, Photography, Women's Studies

A bold journey through images that bear witness to the tenacious power of art and activism

Reactivations

Essays on Performance and Its Documentation

By Philip Auslander
Subjects: Art, Art History, Theater and Performance, Media Studies, New Media, Dance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Explores the relationship between the documentation of a live performance and the audience’s experience of it

Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance

By James M. Harding
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Art, Art History, Political Science, Human Rights

Examines the pervasive presence of surveillance and how surveillance technologies alter the performance of everyday life

Roman Artists, Patrons, and Public Consumption

Familiar Works Reconsidered

By Brenda Longfellow & Ellen Perry
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Art, Art History, Archaeology, Roman

A fascinating shift toward more nuanced interpretations of Roman art that look at different kinds of social knowledge and local contexts

Not Straight from Germany

Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld

Edited by Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette Timm, and Rainer Herrn
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, German Studies, Psychology, Art
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present

Ellen Stewart Presents

Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theatre

By Cindy Rosenthal
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, American Studies, African American Studies, Biography

A stunning visual chronicle of New York’s iconic performance venue

 

Portraits of Violence

War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement

By Suzannah Biernoff
Subjects: Art, Disability Studies, History, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Investigates the artistic, medical, and journalistic responses to facial injury in WWI

Body Parts of Empire

Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive

By Nerissa Balce
Subjects: Art, Photography, Cultural Studies, American Studies

A cross-disciplinary reading of American popular culture at a time of U.S. imperialism and the occupation of the Philippine Islands.

Discipline and Desire

Surveillance Technologies in Performance

By Elise Morrison
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Cultural Studies

Focuses on how contemporary artists have responded to the ubiquitous presence of surveillance technologies in our daily lives

Long Suffering

American Endurance Art as Prophetic Witness

By Karen Gonzalez Rice
Subjects: Art, Art History, Theater and Performance, Religion
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

An unflinching, illuminating look at three U.S. artists and their performances of suffering

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