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Faszination Orgelimprovisation / Fascination Organ Improvisation

Craig Staff

After Modernist Painting

"Revised and expanded to reflect developments in the field since the first edition was published in 2013, this book presents both a historical survey and a critical re-evaluation of the contested and…

Sue Prideaux

Wild Thing

Paul Gauguin's legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention, to c…

Milton Avery: Color Form & Composition

Milton Avery, the poet of colour, in the catalogue of the MICAS exhibition>And yet, this 'artist's artist' was revered by those who saw in him a master of colour, as his works graduated from early Impr…

Venita Datta

Rival Modernities

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta's analysis of competing notions of modernity and French-American relations at the turn of the twenti…

Héctor Jaimes

The Mexican Novel in Times of Rupture

Introduction.- 2. Narrating the Effects of Globalization: Yuri Herrera's and Jorge Volpi's Novels.- 3. The Ethical Question: Eloy Urroz's Friction, Guillermo Fadanelli's Lodo (Mud), and Julián Herbert's T…

Marcel Duchamp

As the most comprehensive publication on Marcel Duchamp to date, this lavishly illustrated volume spans six decades of his creative output, offering a sumptuous visual introduction for newcomers and servi…

Georges Tamer

Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity

Unveils the profound influence of medieval Islamic philosophy on the thought of Leo Strauss. This study examines the impact of the medieval Muslim philosophers al-Frb, Ibn Sn (Avicenna) and Ibn Rushd (Ave…

Jared Michelson,

The Doctrine of God and the Crisis of Modernity

In this incisive work, Michelson traces contemporary debates on the doctrine of God back in time to the philosophical critiques of Hume and Kant .Schleiermacher and Barth each offered accounts of the doct…

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre

The first panoramic survey of its kind, The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre is a wide-ranging guide to modernism's myriad theatrical manifestations and permutations. Covering such diverse movemen…

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre

The first panoramic survey of its kind, The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre is a wide-ranging guide to modernism's myriad theatrical manifestations and permutations. Covering such diverse movemen…

Christopher Green

Cubism and Reality

"Lavishly illustrated and filled with rich new insights that are the product of decades' worth of research, Cubism and Reality challenges the commonly-held view of Cubism as either a retreat from rea…

Justine de Young

The Art of Parisian Chic

Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, The Art of Parisian Chicexplores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris (1855-1885) crafted their pu…

Rachel Silveri

The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris

How artists of interwar Paris created an "art of living," treating their daily lives as an aesthetic, ethical, and creative practice.With The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris, Rachel Silveri t…

David Cruickshank

The Grotesque Modernist Body

The Grotesque Modernist Body explores how and why modernist authors drew on the traditions of the grotesque body in order to represent modern reality accurately. The author employs the concept of the grot…

Houri Berberian, Talinn Grigor

The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860-1979

With this book, Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of Armenian women's organizations, the authors trace minoritarian politic…

Julia May Boddewyn,

The Valentine Gallery

This is the first book to examine the key role played by New York gallerist and dealer Valentine Dudensing (1892-1967) in shaping the canon of modern art in the United States.It reveals how Dudensing deve…

Elizabeth Vandiver

Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity

This book examines the importance of Classics and classical reception in the poetry, novels, translations, essays, and letters of Richard Aldington (1892-1962). The book has a double focus: first, to demo…

Henry Wiencek

Stan and Gus

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyHow the architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens transcended scandal to enrich th…