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This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement.

Through a rereading of the available textual and visual sources of Symbolist theater and of the work of Nabi artists, as well as through an analysis of sources and paintings previously unexamined in the existing literature, this book rewrites the history of the cross-fertilization between Nabi art and Symbolist theater.

This book reframes the formative years of three significant artists: Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse Legros, and James McNeill Whistler. This book will serve as a comprehensive resource on the development, production, implications, and eventual end of the Societe.

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner.

This book introduces the subject of international exhibitions to art and design historians and a wider audience as a resource for understanding the broad and varied political meanings of design during a period of rapid industrialization, developing nationalism, imperialism, expanding trade, and the emergence of a consumer society.

Combining approaches from art history, museum studies, and contemporary curating, this collection focuses on the artist's studio and its legacies. Through a series of case studies on some of the major figures of modern art, contributors examine how and why artists' studios have been exhibited in the art gallery and museum. Among the artists discussed are Donald Judd, Frieda Kahlo, Constantin Brancusi, Francis Bacon, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Piet Mondrian.

This volume provides a stimulating and adventurous exploration of the theme of travel from an art-historical perspective.

The present volume builds upon the body of recent and emerging research - from antiquity to the present day - to embrace a global focus and addressing the more unusual (or at least unexpected) uses, meanings, and aesthetic appeal of marble.

Focusing on the first four films about Moore's sculpture in the 1940s and 1950s, The Making of Henry Moore on Film: A Cultural History considers how these films played a role in the consolidation of the sculptor's public identity and broke new ground in the exploration of sculptural aesthetics through film. The book draws on extensive archival research in the production files of these films and on detailed contextual research.

The book argues that images of the Paris urchin addressed transformations at the heart of modernity, including the decline of patriarchal, monarchical social structures and the rise of industrial capitalism and colonialism. It parses a contested national archetype that emerged from repeated, recycled representations of revolutions (1830, 1832, 1848, 1871).