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The sculptural imagination : figurative, modernist, minimalist by Potts, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The sculptural imagination and the viewing of sculpture -- Classical figures -- A sculptural aesthetic -- Surface values: Canova -- Modern figures -- Sculpture and modernity -- Rodin, Rilke and sculptural things -- Modernist objects and plastic form -- Modernism and the situation of sculpture -- The problem of sculptural form -- Sculpture as object: Brancusi -- Modernist sculpture -- The idea of a modern sculpture -- Sculpture as collage, as monster: David Smith -- Minimalism and High Modernism -- Literalism and objecthood -- Theatricality -- Aesthetic theory -- The phenomenological turn -- Sculpture and phenomenological theory -- Perception and presence -- Merleau-Ponty and the viewing of art -- The performance of viewing -- The staging of sculpture: Morris -- From public to private -- The siting of sculpture: Serra -- Objects and spaces -- Specific objects: Judd -- 'A single thing ... open and extended' -- Space, time and situation -- The negated presence of sculpture -- A sculptural imagination: Andre -- Place, concept and desire -- Borderlines, 'nothing, everything': Hesse -- Conclusion: Arenas and objects of sculpture: Bourgeois.…”
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Evocative presence : twentieth-century photographs in the Museum collection by Tucker, Anne

Table of Contents: “…Aesthetic movement 1900-1930 -- American modernism 1920-1940 -- European avant-garde 1917-1935 -- American documentary 1930-1960 -- International avant-garde 1945-1987.…”

New insights into the cleaning of paintings : proceedings from the Cleaning 2010 International Conference, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia and Museum Conservation Institute

Table of Contents: “…Ethics, aesthetics, training, and documentation -- Traditional media : egg tempera and oil -- Modern paints -- Cleaning systems -- Appendix : summary of panel discussions.…”

Reappraisals : shifting alignments in postwar critical theory by Hohendahl, Peter Uwe

Table of Contents: “…Habermas's philosophical discourse of modernity -- 6. The politicization of aesthetic theory : the debate in aesthetics since 1965 -- 7. …”
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A kind of archeology : collecting American folk art, 1876-1976 by Stillinger, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…The folk art idea -- Folk art, ethnology, and antiquarianism -- Folk art and modern art -- The decorative and aesthetic uses of folk art -- Folk art, patriotism, and nationalism.…”
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A story of ruins : presence and absence in Chinese art and visual culture by Wu Hung, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Internalizing ruins : premodern sensibilities of time passed -- The birth of ruins : inventing modern visual culture in China -- Between past and future : transience as a contemporary aesthetic of ruins.…”

Wallpaper : a history of style and trends by Thibaut-Pomerantz, Carolle

Table of Contents: “…The origins of wallpaper -- The triumph of ornamental design -- The great adventure of the Panoramique -- Wallpaper in America -- Aesthetic renewal and the road to modern art -- The contemporary revolution -- Conclusion -- Museums and institutions housing important wallpaper collections.…”

Naked : the nude in America by Dijkstra, Bram

Table of Contents: “…-- The dangerous incursion of physical reality -- Retreat to the dream -- The sexual geography of the human body -- Discovery of the pubes -- The socio-cultural dimension -- Modernism and the anti-classical body aesthetic -- The subconscious and the nude -- Invasion of the Pin-up queens -- The inexorable rise of the breast -- Art, prurience, pop, or porn? …”
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Art theory : an historical introduction by Williams, Robert, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…List of plates -- List of figures -- Introduction -- Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The shield of Achilles -- Imitation and knowledge -- Beauty -- Rhetoric -- Word and world -- The early modern period -- Craftsmen and theorists -- Humanism -- The academic system -- The Enlightenment -- The eighteenth century -- Radical idealism -- The nineteenth century -- The crisis of the academy -- Impressionism -- "Absolute art exists at last" -- Ruskin and the aesthetes -- The early twentieth century -- Beyond nature -- Beyond reason -- American modern -- Postmodernism -- The critique of culture -- The phenomenology of signs -- Future present -- Sources and suggestions for further reading -- Index.…”
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Dream anatomy by Sappol, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Dream anatomies and the great divide: art, science, and the changing conventions of anatomical representation, 1500-present -- Anatomy is us -- Playing with death: fun with science -- Getting real: the new aesthetics of scientific illustration -- Our cadavers, ourselves, or the return of the anatomical repressed -- Notes -- Revisiting dream anatomy - Anatomical dream time: the early modern era -- Getting real: removing metaphor and fancy from anatomy -- Visionary and visible: dreaming anatomy in modernity -- History of anatomy timeline -- Print technologies of anatomical illustration -- Exhibition checklist.…”
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Critical alliances : economics and feminism in English women's writing, 1880-1914 by Cameron, Brooke, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Educating new women for feminist futures -- Sisterly kinship and the modern sexual contract -- Cosmopolitan communities of female professionals -- Women's artistic connoisseurship and the pleasures of a lesbian aesthetic -- Virginia Woolf's post-Victorian feminism -- Coda : The post-Victorian legacy of women's work.…”
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Christie's interiors.

Table of Contents: “…A definitive display -- The versatile Chinese aesthetic, from a private European collection -- Irresistible: Art deco in Paris and New York -- Impressionist and modern art: observation of life and landscape -- Objects of beauty: Bohemian opulence -- David Rolt 1916-1985 -- Ernst Beyeler.…”

Outliers and American Vanguard Art by Cooke, Lynne

Table of Contents: “…Powell III -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Acknowledgements -- Note to the reader -- Boundary trouble : Navigating margin and mainstream / Lynne Cooke -- Modernism's war on terror / Darby English -- How to make a modern primitive / Richard Meyer -- Find-and-seek : Discovery narratives, Americanization, and other tales of genius in modern American folk art / Jennifer Jane Marshall -- Black folk art redux : A curatorial roundtable / Lynne Cooke, John Beardsley, Katherine Jentleson. …”

Since Meiji : perspectives on the Japanese visual arts, 1868-2000

Table of Contents: “…Shiner -- The creation of the vocabulary of aesthetics in Meiji Japan / Michael F. Marra -- Okakura Tenshin and aesthetic nationalism / John Clark -- Japanese art criticism: the first fifty years / Mikiko Hirayama -- Sculpture / Shūji Tanaka -- Can architecture be both modern and "Japanese"? …”
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Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed by Scott, James C.

Table of Contents: “…Nature and space -- Cities, people, and language -- Authoritarian high modernism -- The high-modernist city: an experiment and a critique -- The Revolutionary Party: a plan and a diagnosis -- Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams -- Compulsory villagization in Tanzania: aesthetics and miniaturization -- Taming nature: an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- Thin simplifications and practical knowledge: mētis -- Conclusion.…”
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African-American art by Patton, Sharon F.

Table of Contents: “…; The evolution of a modern black aesthetic ; Art institutions and artists' groups ; Towards a new abstraction ; The postmodern condition 1980-93 -- Timeline.…”
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Century of the child : growing by design, 1900-2000 by Kinchin, Juliet

Eric Rohmer's film theory (1948-1953) : from 'école Scherer' to 'politique des auteurs' by Grosoli, Marco

Table of Contents: “…Beyond modern art; 6.2. Classic = Modern; 6.3. An anti-evolutionist approach; 6.4. …”
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Encyclopedia of East Asian design

Table of Contents: “…A historical background of pre-modern China / Jessica Tsui-Yan Li, York University, Canada ; Traditional ideas, religion and aesthetics for design in pre-modern China / Wendy Siuyi Wong, York University, Canada ; Traditional cultures of China / Jessica Tsui-Yan Li, York University, Canada ; Traditional colors, forms and patterns of China / Yi-Hsin Lin, independent, UK ; Painting in pre-modern China / Malcolm McNeill, SOAS, University of London, UK ; Chinese calligraphy / Sarah Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong ; The design of the Chinese woodblock printed book / Lucille Chia, University of California, Riverside, USA ; Silk textiles and clothing in pre-modern China / Helen Persson, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK ; Ceramics in pre-modern China / Luisa Elena Mengoni, British Library, UK ; Metalwork in pre-modern China / Meĺodie Doumy, British Library, UK ; Carvings (stone and jade) in pre-modern China / Eileen H. …”
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African literature in the digital age : class and sexual politics in new writing from Nigeria and Kenya by Adenekan, Shola

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Kenyan and Nigerian Writers in the Digital Age; Network Thinking: Literary Networks in the Digital Age; Class and Poetry in the Digital Age; Class Consciousness in Online Fictions; Digital Queer: The Queering of African Literature; Middle-Class, Transnational, Queer and African; 'Ashewo no be Job': The Figure of the Modern Girl in the Digital Age; The Erotic in New Writing from Nigeria; Social Media and the Aesthetics of the Quotidian; Conclusion: Connecting the Dots…”
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