The Politics of Heritage

The Legacies of Race

Edited by Jo Littler, Roshi Naidoo

While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being...

Published February 7th 2005 by Routledge.

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Modern Art: A Critical Introduction

By Pam Meecham, Julie Sheldon

Modern Art: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the artists, movements and theories of twentieth century art history. Spanning a century of art...

Published November 25th 2004 by Routledge.

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Revealing Art

By Matthew Kieran

Why does art matter to us, and what makes it good? Why is the role of imagination so important in art? Illustrated with carefully chosen...

Published November 25th 2004 by Routledge.

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On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

By James Elkins

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that...

Published August 31st 2004 by Routledge.

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The Nineteenth Century Visual Culture Reader

Edited by Jeannene Przyblyski, Vanessa Schwartz

This reader brings together, for the first time, key writings about the nineteenth century, a key period in contemporary discussion of visual culture.

Exploring such topics...

Published July 1st 2004 by Routledge.

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Digital Currents

Art in the Electronic Age

By Margot Lovejoy

Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist...

Published March 18th 2004 by Routledge.

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Pictures and Tears

A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

By James Elkins

Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to...

Published February 23rd 2004 by Routledge.

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Visual Studies

A Skeptical Introduction

By James Elkins

In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources....

Published August 8th 2003 by Routledge.

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Vision and Difference

Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art

By Griselda Pollock

Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist...

Published April 24th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader

By Amelia Jones

Bringing together key writings on art, film, architecture, popular culture, new media and other visual fields, this key reader combines classic texts by leading feminist...

Published November 28th 2002 by Routledge.

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