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Visualizing the City

Edited by Alan Marcus, Dietrich Neumann

This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with...

Published January 23rd 2008 by Routledge.

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The State of Art Criticism

Edited by James Elkins, MICHAEL NEWMAN

Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of...

Published December 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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Landscape Theory

Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins

Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how...

Published December 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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Biographies & Space

Placing the Subject in Art and Architecture

Edited by Dana Arnold, Joanna Sofaer Derevenski

Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used...

Published December 14th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Florentine Villa

Architecture History Society

By Grazia Gobbi Sica

Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Quest for Gentility in China

Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class

Edited by Daria Berg, Chloe Starr

The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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Food and Culture

A Reader

Edited by Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik

Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge.

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Doubt

By Richard Shiff

In an age where art history’s questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative. In this essential new addition to...

Published November 26th 2007 by Routledge.

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Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum

Time, space and the archive

By Griselda Pollock

Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes...

Published November 22nd 2007 by Routledge.

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Art History: The Basics

By Grant Pooke, Diana Newall

Art History: The Basics is a concise and accessible introduction for the general reader and the undergraduate approaching the history of art for the first...

Published November 21st 2007 by Routledge.

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