Art History

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A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume 2

By Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, Pablo Alvarez, and Julia Miller
Subjects: History, European History, Reference, Art, Art History, Cultural Studies

Cataloging newly discovered manuscripts and fragments in one of the largest collections of Greek manuscripts in North America

Exit of a Hero

Photography and the Visual Culture of Commemoration in Southern Nigeria

By Okechukwu Nwafor
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Photography, Art History, Cultural Studies
Series: African Perspectives

The transformation of commemorative practices alongside the development of a distinct visual culture reshaping southern Nigeria

Curating the Commons

Socially Engaged Public Art

By Katia Arfara
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, Urban Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

In-depth explorations of socially engaged public artworks from the perspective of a curator and scholar

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

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

Alchemies of Theater

Plays, Scores, Writings

By Dick Higgins
Edited by Bonnie Marranca
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, American Literature

 Illuminating the extensive contributions of Dick Higgins to theater

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, Theater and Performance

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

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

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

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

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

Beyond the Bauhaus

Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33

By Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reclaims the essential role that the city of Breslau played in the origins of aesthetic modernism in the Weimar era

Alienation Effects

Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91

By Branislav Jakovljevic
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, History, European History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Examines the interplay of artistic, political, and economic performance in the former Yugoslavia and reveals their inseparability

Nothing Happened

Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide

By Darcy Buerkle
Subjects: Art, Art History, Cultural Studies, History
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

A close look at Charlotte Salomon's fantastical autobiography Life? or Theater? and the way that German social history has omitted the stories of German Jewish women and suicide

Tan Men/Pale Women

Color and Gender in Archaic Greece and Egypt, a Comparative Approach

By Mary Ann Eaverly
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Art, Art History, Archaeology

Investigating the history behind color as a method of gender differentiation in ancient Greek and Egyptian art

The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s)

Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance

By James M. Harding
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History

A spirited challenge to previous notions of the avant-garde and avant-garde performance

American Newspaper Comics

An Encyclopedic Reference Guide

By Allan Holtz
Subjects: Reference, American Studies, Art, Art History, Cultural Studies

The most comprehensive guide to U.S. newspaper comics ever published

Baroque Horrors

Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

By David Castillo
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art, Art History, History, Intellectual History

Exploring the historical roots of horror in the modern age

The First Actresses

From Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons

Edited by National Portrait Gallery
By Gill Perry, Joseph Roach, and Shearer West
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature, Reference

Portraits of the earliest actresses and what they convey about a once-disreputable profession

Franz Radziwill and the Contradictions of German Art History, 1919-45

By James A. van Dyke
Subjects: Art, Art History, German Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of the career of Franz Radziwill, investigating the question of art in a Nazi context

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