Art and Performance
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Too Beautiful to Picture Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis Elizabeth C. Mansfield 2006 Fall
- An intriguing look at imitation in Western art from antiquity to the present
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Collectivism after Modernism The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, Editors 2006 Fall
- Analyzes collective artistic practice from the Cold War to the global present
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Sheer Presence The Veil in Manet’s Paris Marni Reva Kessler 2006 Fall
- Examines the cultural and aesthetic significance of the veil in nineteenth-century France
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The Matrixial Borderspace Bracha Ettinger 2005 Fall
- A groundbreaking intertwining of the philosophy of art and psychoanalytic theory
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Modern Dance, Negro Dance Race in Motion Susan Manning 2006 Fall
- Integrates the histories of black and white dance in modern America
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Herschel V. Jones The Imprint of a Great Collector Lisa Dickinson Michaux, Marla J. Kinney and Jane Immler Satkowski Karen Jacobson, Editor 2006 Spring
- A richly illustrated guide to one of the most significant collections of prints in America, including luminaries Rembrandt, Dürer, Whistler, and Cassatt
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Money in the Bank The Katherine Kierland Herberger Collection Corine Wegener and Karal Ann Marling 2006 Spring
- A comprehensive illustrated guide to American toy banks
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Ether The Nothing That Connects Everything Joe Milutis 2005 Fall
- Diagrams the interconnections among cosmic consciousness, hermetic avant-gardes, and technological progress
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The Aesthetics of Disengagement Contemporary Art and Depression Christine Ross 2005 Spring
- Reveals how artists engage the scientific notion of depression
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Sex Objects Art and the Dialectics of Desire Jennifer Doyle 2006 Spring
- Complicates the role sex plays in art—from the scandalous to the absurd
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American Exposures Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century Louis Kaplan 2005 Fall
- A fascinating analysis of how photographers image and imagine American communities
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Metonymy in Contemporary Art A New Paradigm Denise Green 2005 Fall
- A critical look at the contemporary art world from a global perspective
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The Quiet Landscapes of William B. Post The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2005 Fall
- Exquisite photographs of rural Maine by this remarkable American artist.
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Pictorial Nominalism On Marcel Duchamp’s Passage from Painting to the Readymade Thierry De Duve 2005 Fall
- Reveals the invention of the readymade as a critical point in contemporary art
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Earth-Mapping Artists Reshaping Landscape Edward S. Casey 2005 Spring
- Re-envisions the earth in innovative painterly, sculptural, and architectural forms