Painting outside the lines patterns of creativity in modern art / by Galenson, David W.

Subjects: “…Painting, American 20th century.…”
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Ofrenda : Liliana Wilson's art of dissidence and dreams /

Table of Contents: “…Anzaldua -- Las imagenes de Liliana Wilson / Marjorie Agosin, translated by Monica Bruno Galmozzi -- Liliana Wilson: learning to live finally / Kay Turner -- "Ella tiene su tono": conocimiento and mestiza consciousness in Liliana Wilson's art / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- Exiled creativity and immigrant aesthetics: the politically transformative work of Liliana Wilson / Guisela Latorre -- The inviolate erotic in the paintings of Liliana Wilson / Laura E. Perez -- A Chilean painter in the city of ideas: Liliana Wilson, memory recorder and dream shaper / George Vargas -- Liliana Wilson: shards of the past in her oeuvre / Patricia Ruiz-Healy -- Tango al que sopla la hoja / Lourdes Perez -- The artwork.…”
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La peinture ou les leçons esthétiques chez Marcel Proust by Yoo, Yae-Jin, 1979-

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Making race modernism and racial art in America / by Francis, Jacqueline

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The lyrical in epic time : modern Chinese intellectuals and artists through the 1949 crisis / by Wang, Dewei

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The Chain of Things : Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940 / by Downing, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Painting magic in Keller's Green Henry -- Speaking magic in Fontane's The Stechlin -- Reading magic in Walter Benjamin.…”
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Allied looting in World War II thefts of art, manuscripts, stamps and jewelry in Europe / by Alford, Kenneth D.

Table of Contents: “…A passion for Lucas Cranach paintings -- pt. 3. Plundering priceless manuscripts -- pt. 4. …”
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Mao's new world political culture in the early People's Republic / by Hung, Chang-tai, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Tiananmen Square : space and politics -- Ten monumental buildings : architecture of power -- Yangge : the dance of revolution -- Parades -- The red line : the Museum of the Chinese Revolution -- Oil paintings and history -- Devils in the drawings -- New year prints and peasant resistance -- The cult of the red martyr -- The Monument to the People's Heroes.…”
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The nonconformists culture, politics, and nationalism in a Serbian intellectual circle, 1944-1991 / by Miller, Nick, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Simina 9a in a new Yugoslavia -- Nonconformist initiations -- Ćosić : engagement and disillusionment, 1956-1966 -- Drama and politics: Mihiz in the sixties -- The suicide and rebirth of the painting: Mića Popović, 1959-1974 -- Fragmented Serbia -- Ćosić and Popović return to Serbia -- From principle to catharsis -- The children of Cain -- The limits of revelation -- The legend of Simina 9a in Serbia's modern history.…”
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Death of a nation American culture and the end of exceptionalism / by Noble, David W.

Table of Contents: “…The birth and death of American history -- Historians leaving home, killing fathers -- The crisis of American literary criticism from World War I to World War II -- Elegies for the national landscape -- The new literary criticism : the death of the nation born in New England -- The vanishing national landscape : painting, architecture, music, and philosophy in the early twentieth century -- The disintegration of national boundaries : literary criticism in the late twentieth century -- The end of American history.…”
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Modernist America art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture / by Pells, Richard H.

Table of Contents: “…Modernism in Europe and America -- Painting modernity -- The globalization of American architecture -- Modernism in the marketplace -- From The rite of spring to Appalachian spring -- All that jazz -- They're writing songs of love -- "I was just making pictures" : from Charlie Chaplin to Charlie Kane -- Night and fog : from German expressionism to film noir -- The new wave abroad -- The new wave at home -- A method they couldn't refuse -- The global popularity of American movies -- Epilogue. …”
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Performing the Iranian state : visual culture and representations of Iranian identity /

Table of Contents: “…Fitzpatrick -- PERFORMING VISUAL STRATEGIES: REPRESENTATIONAL CONCEPTS OF FEMALE IRANIAN IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO ART / Julia Allerstorfer -- PAINTED AND ANIMATED METAPHORS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST ALIREZA DARVISH / Mina Zand Siegel and Carmen Pérez González -- IN THE HOUSE OF FATEMEH: REVISITING SHIRIN NESHAT'S PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES WOMEN OF ALLAH / Staci Gem Scheiwiller.…”
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Women, celebrity, and literary culture between the wars by Hammill, Faye

Table of Contents: “…"How to tell the difference between a Matisse painting and a Spanish omelette" : Dorothy Parker, Vogue, and Vanity fair -- "Brains are really everything" : Anita Loos's Gentlemen prefer blondes -- "A plumber's idea of Cleopatra" : Mae West as author -- "Astronomers located her in the latitude of Prince Edward Island" : L. …”
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Disordering the Establishment : Participatory Art and Institutional Critique in France, 1958–1981 / by Woodruff, Lily, 1981-

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Conspiracy films a tour of dark places in the American conscious / by Donovan, Barna William, 1970-

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Being Modern : The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century /

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