Art : History

The French artist Orlan is infamous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. Responding to Orlan’s definition of her performance surgeries as “carnal art,” C. Jill O’Bryan considers how the artist’s ever-fluctuating face questions idealized beauty and female identity, and complicates the notion of identity—and its relation to the body—at the boundary dividing art from identity. more...

Price: $75.00

A rich and lively examination of this curious and pervasive tradition.Karal Ann Marling visits dozens of roadside attractions, viewing them analytically, intellectually, and enthusiastically, tracing each one through folklore and literature. Heavily illustrated, this book takes the reader on the road to examine these treasures and all that they represent. more...

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Brings together scholarship devoted to medieval architecture, illumination sculpture, and the Romanesque and Gothic periods in Northern Europe. Comprising 30 original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays, this volume covers the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. more...

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Based on the highly praised Oxford Dictionary of Art, this is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western Art from ancient Greece to the present day. Written in clear, lively prose, this invaluable reference maintains a careful balance between fact and appraisal. In its pages, we encounter artists ranging from Polyclitus of Argos to Andy Warhol, with entries on younger contemporary artists, such as, Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, and Rachel Whiteread. Here also are periods and movements, including the Classical period, the Renaissance, Impressionism, the Ashcan School, and Cubism, as well as techniques and styles such as encaustic painting, encarnado, lithography, cabinet painting, and blot drawing. more...

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A fascinating exploration of ten contemporary American playwrights: John Guare (House of Blue Leaves), Tina Howe (Museum), Tony Kushner (Angels in America), Emily Mann (Anulla: An Autobiography), Richard Nelson (An American Comedy), Marsha Norman (The Secret Garden), David Rabe (In the Boom Boom Room), Paula Vogel (Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief), Wendy Wasserstein (The Sisters Rosenzweig), and Lanford Wilson (Talley's Folly). more...

Price: $30.00