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1. |  | Title: Mallarmé's children: symbolism and the renewal of experienceAuthor: Smith, Richard Cándida Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | Art | European Studies | LiteraturePublisher's Description: In a narrative gracefully combining intellectual and cultural history, Richard Cándida Smith unfolds the legacy of Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), the poet who fathered the symbolist movement in poetry and art. The symbolists found themselves in the midst of the transition to a world in which new med . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. |  | Title: Russian opera and the symbolist movementAuthor: Morrison, Simon Alexander 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Opera | Musicology | Composers | Russian and Eastern European Studies | LiteraturePublisher's Description: An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth ce . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. |  | Title: Performance artists talking in the eighties: sex, food, money/fame, ritual/deathAuthor: Montano, Linda 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art | Art History | Cinema and Performance ArtsPublisher's Description: Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The result is an original and compelling talking . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. |  | Title: Singular women: writing the artist Author: Frederickson, Kristen 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Art Theory | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this groundbreaking volume, contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. Singular Women proposes a new feminist investigation of the history of art by considering how a historian's theoretical approach a . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. |  | Title: What is this thing called jazz?: African American musicians as artists, critics, and activistsAuthor: Porter, Eric (Eric C.) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | History | United States History | American Studies | African American Studies | American Music | Contemporary Music | JazzPublisher's Description: Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. |  | Title: Antonia Canova and the politics of patronage in revolutionary and Napoleonic EuropeAuthor: Johns, Christopher M. S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Art History | European Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: The Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) was Europe's most celebrated artist from the end of the ancien régime to the early years of the Restoration, an era when the traditional relationship between patrons and artists changed drastically. Christopher M. S. Johns's refreshingly original stud . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. |  | Title: High-Tech Europe: the politics of international cooperation Author: Sandholtz, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Economics and Business | Technology and SocietyPublisher's Description: A study of cooperative efforts in the high-tech industries of Europe. Sandholtz examines why collaboration came late to these countries, how protective walls came down, how countries work together in economically sensitive areas.Governments have recognized for decades the dynamic role played by micr . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. |  | Title: Three artists (three women): modernism and the art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'KeeffeAuthor: Wagner, Anne Middleton 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: This original and sharply obser-vant book gives new significance to three important figures in the history of twentieth-century art: Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Anne Wagner looks at their imagery and careers, relating their work to three decisive moments in the history of American . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. |  | Title: The early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western EuropeAuthor: Brantingham, P. Jeffrey 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Archaeology | European History | European History | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: This volume brings together prominent archaeologists working in areas outside Western Europe to discuss the most recent evidence for the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the origin of modern humans. With a wealth of primary data from archaeological sites and regions tha . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. |  | Title: The dynamics of the breakthrough in Eastern Europe: the Polish experience Author: Staniszkis, Jadwiga Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | European History | SociologyPublisher's Description: Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an inside . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. |  | Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe Author: Lévesque, Jacques Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | History | European History | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. |  | Title: Lovis Corinth Author: Uhr, Horst 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: This splendid and generously illustrated monograph by Horst Uhr is the first comprehensive study of one of the great individualists in the history of art. Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) has long been recognized as a major figure in German painting, along with Emile Nolde and Max Beckmann. Spanning a trem . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. |  | Title: Nuns as artists: the visual culture of a medieval conventAuthor: Hamburger, Jeffrey F 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Religion | Gender Studies | Art History | Medieval HistoryPublisher's Description: Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from a previously unknown group of late-fifteenth-century devotional drawings made by a Benedictine nu . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. |  | Title: Decades of crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War IIAuthor: Berend, T. Iván (Tibor Iván) 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Only by understanding Central and Eastern Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century can we hope to make sense of the conflicts and crises that have followed World War II and, after that, the collapse of Soviet-controlled state socialism. Ivan Berend looks closely at t . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. |  | Title: Art and artists of twentieth-century ChinaAuthor: Sullivan, Michael 1916- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | ChinaPublisher's Description: This visually stunning book focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. Michael Sullivan, recognized throughout the world as a leading scholar of Chinese art, vividly documents the conflicting pulls of traditional and Western values . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. |  | Title: Fluxus experienceAuthor: Higgins, Hannah 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Art CriticismPublisher's Description: In this groundbreaking work of incisive scholarship and analysis, Hannah Higgins explores the influential art movement Fluxus. Daring, disparate, contentious - Fluxus artists worked with minimal and prosaic materials now familiar in post-World War II art. Higgins describes the experience of Fluxus f . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. |  | Title: Aesthetics and analysis in writing on religion: modern fascinationsAuthor: Gold, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Comparative ReligionsPublisher's Description: This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that su . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. |  | Title: The origins of backwardness in Eastern Europe: economics and politics from the Middle Ages until the early twentieth centuryAuthor: Chirot, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to those who want to understand contemporary Eastern Europe's past. Like the rest . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. |  | Title: Orientalist aesthetics: art, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930Author: Benjamin, Roger 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. |  | Title: Recording conceptual art: early interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, Weiner, by Patricia NorvellAuthor: Barry, Robert 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: Recording Conceptual Art features a highly provocative series of previously unpublished interviews conducted in early 1969 with some of the most dynamic, daring, and innovative artists of the tumultuous 1960s. The nine individuals - eight artists and one art dealer - are now known as major contribut . . . [more]Similar Items |
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