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National Camera Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment Roberto Tejada 2009 Spring

Challenges conventional habits of discussing image, identity, and photography

The Disciplinary Frame Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning John Tagg 2008 Fall

How do photographs gain their meaning and power?

Feminist Art and the Maternal Andrea Liss 2008 Fall

A highly engaging, taboo-breaking study of feminist contemporary art

Everyone Had Cameras Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850–2000 Richard Steven Street 2008 Fall

The relationship between California farmworkers and the photographers who have documented their lives

Street Scenes Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880–1924 Esther Romeyn 2008 Fall

Negotiates the complex relationship between modern urban culture and immigrant identity

The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer Louis Kaplan 2008 Fall

The story of the birth of spirit photography and the controversy surrounding its discovery

Migrations of Gesture Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness, Editors 2008 Spring

The cultural significance of gesture as a human expression

Masterpiece Photographs of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell Christian A. Peterson 2008 Fall

An exquisite selection of photographic works from this important collection

The Philosophy of Art F.W.J. Schelling Douglas W. Stott, Editor 1989 Spring

The first English translation of a classic text in aesthetics based on the precepts of German Idealism. Schelling systematically treats various forms of art-including music, painting, sculpture, narrative, and poetry-to present a philosophical disclosure of the idea or essence of art itself, an essence that transcends the actual work in history.

Engraving the Savage The New World and Techniques of Civilization Michael Gaudio 2008 Spring

How engravings reveal the meaning of “savage” and “civilized”

The People Have Never Stopped Dancing Native American Modern Dance Histories Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2007 Fall

Addresses the Indian, absent and present, in modern dance studies

Looking for Asian America An Ethnocentric Tour by Wing Young Huie Wing Young Huie 2007 Fall

Stunning and personal photographs of Asian America today—from a renowned artist

The Color of Stone Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America Charmaine A. Nelson 2007 Spring

How do we “see” race when the color of skin is stone

Gronk Max Benavidez 2007 Spring

The first major book devoted to the influential Chicano artist

Images of Bliss Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning Murat Aydemir 2007 Spring

From Holbein to hard-core porn, a critical exploration of male orgasm in Western culture

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University of Minnesota Press

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