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    A Sensual Politics of Photography

    de Gen Doy ...
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  • Seeing and Consciousness

    Women, Class and Representation

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    Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women's art and female representations, this book challenges the widespread belief that Marxism has nothing valuable to contribute to women's studies. The author argues that, from the French Revolution through to the present, gender and class have shaped visual imagery. She shows how Marxist theory can function to question ... Leer más

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  • Drapery

    Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture

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    Gen Doy investigates the hitherto neglected meanings of drapery and the draped body in visual culture. The baroque and the classical are her subjects, as are Freud's "Gravida", Clerambault's writings and photographs of draped figures, the fetishistic play between veiling and revealing and the meanings of drapery in recent art, from Christo's wrapped Reichstag to the impact of the modern women's ... Leer más

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    The Nineteenth Century

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  • Simone de Beauvoir - A Beginner's Guide

    Series series BGKF
    Simone de Beauvoir was among the 20th century's most influential thinkers. She was a philosopher at the forefront of existentialism, a pioneering thinker on women and feminism in ""The Second Sex"", the writer of prize-winning fiction, an autobiographical writer and a committed political activist. Introducing her life and work in a straightforward, jargon-free way, this guide offers readings of ... Leer más

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  • Modern Art

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' ... Leer más

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    Episodes in the Life of a Divided City

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    de Paula Amad ...
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  • After Modern Art

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    de David Hopkins ...
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