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| 1. |  | Title: The dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: culture, politics, and the formation of a modern diaspora  Author: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Religion | Judaism | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Prayers in stone: Greek architectural sculpture ca. 600-100 B.C.E Author: Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Art | Art and Architecture | Art History Publisher's Description: The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for the ancient Greeks, and often provocative. Some ornamental sculpture was placed where, when the building was finished, no mortal eye could view it. And unl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Whose pharaohs?: archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I Author: Reid, Donald M. (Donald Malcolm) 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | European History | Middle Eastern Studies | Classics | Art History Publisher's Description: Egypt's rich and celebrated ancient past has served many causes throughout history--in both Egypt and the West. Concentrating on the era from Napoleon's conquest and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the outbreak of World War I, this book examines the evolution of Egyptian archaeology in the con . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Seeing double: intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria Author: Stephens, Susan A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Out of Eden: essays on modern art Author: Di Piero, W. S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism Publisher's Description: Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation. Di Piero pursues his theme with an autobiographical force and immediacy. He fixes his attention on painters an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination Author: Christ, Carol T Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Art History | English Literature | Victorian History | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include the relationship of optical devices to the visual imag . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Looking at lovemaking: constructions of sexuality in Roman art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 Author: Clarke, John R 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Classics | Art and Architecture | Art History | History | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question - and along the way, he reveals a society quite different from our own. Clarke reevaluates our understanding of Roman art and society . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Miles and me Author: Troupe, Quincy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | African American Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Contemporary Music | Jazz Publisher's Description: Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiog . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Poets on painters: essays on the art of painting by Twentieth-century poets Author: McClatchy, J. D 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | Art | Poetry | Art History Publisher's Description: What are poets looking at , looking for , when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened languag . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The poetics of military occupation: Mzeina allegories of Bedouin identity under Israeli and Egyptian rule Author: Lavie, Smadar Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Military History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under foreign occupation. For the last forty years Bedouin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Weimar surfaces: urban visual culture in 1920s Germany Author: Ward, Janet 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature | Architecture | Film | European Studies | European History | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual cu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Images and empires: visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa Author: Landau, Paul Stuart 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Art History | Cultural Anthropology | History Publisher's Description: Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa - mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and cul . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Muslim rulers and rebels: everyday politics and armed separatism in the southern Philippines Author: McKenna, Thomas M 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Islam | Southeast Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Remembering the present: painting and popular history in Zaire Author: Fabian, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art | African History | Politics | African Studies Publisher's Description: This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its complex relationship to forms of self-expressi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Painting on the left: Diego Rivera, radical politics, and San Francisco's public murals Author: Lee, Anthony W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Art | Art History | Californian and Western History | California and the West Publisher's Description: The boldly political mural projects of Diego Rivera and other leftist artists in San Francisco during the 1930s and early 1940s are the focus of Anthony W. Lee's fascinating book. Led by Rivera, these painters used murals as a vehicle to reject the economic and political status quo and to give visib . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Visual piety: a history and theory of popular religious images Author: Morgan, David 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | Art Publisher's Description: This fascinating study of devotional images traces their historical links to important strains of American culture. David Morgan demonstrates how popular visual images - from Warner Sallman's "Head of Christ" to velvet renditions of DaVinci's "Last Supper" to illustrations on prayer cards - have ass . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Light moving in time: studies in the visual aesthetics of avant-garde film Author: Wees, William C. (William Charles) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: To view a film is to see another's seeing mediated by the technology and techniques of the camera. By manipulating the cinematic apparatus in unorthodox ways, avant-garde filmmakers challenge the standardized versions of seeing perpetuated by the dominant film industry and generate ways of seeing th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Antigonos the One-eyed and the creation of the Hellenistic state Author: Billows, Richard A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Called by Plutarch "the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors," Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the first half of the Diadoch period, ruling most of the Asian territory conquered by the Macedonians during his final twenty years. Billows provides the first d . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: When capitalists collide: business conflict and the end of empire in Egypt Author: Vitalis, Robert 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Ancient History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Robert Vitalis's empirically rich study challenges the left-nationalist paradigm through which twentieth-century Egyptian history and politics has generally been interpreted. He argues with those who explain Egyptian economic development primarily in terms of class and of power struggles between Bri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Spectacular nature: corporate culture and the Sea World experience Author: Davis, Susan G 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Popular Culture | American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: This is the story of Sea World, a theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold. With its trademark star, Shamu the killer whale - as well as performing dolphins, pettable sting rays, and reproductions of pristine natural worlds - the park represents a careful coordination . . . [more] Similar Items |