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The Sea Woman: Sedna in Inuit Shamanism and Art in the Eastern Arctic
By J. G. Oosten, Frédéric LaugrandThis study offers an in-depth examination of the role of shamanism in modern Inuit art and culture. Inuit shamans derived their healing skills and power over natural elements from their...
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Sleeping and Dreaming
By Nadine Käthe Monem"Sleeping and Dreaming", which accompanies the exhibition of the same name at Wellcome Collection and the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum,Dresden, takes a fresh look at the apparently simple questions of why humans...
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Trompe-l'oeil, Painted Architecture
By Miriam MilmanTrompe-l'oeil, Painted Architecture
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And Grace Will Lead Me Home: The Jerry Evenrud Collection of Images of the Parable of the Prodigal Son
By Robert M. BrusicThe Jerry Evenrud collection of images of the parable of the Prodigal Son is the largest known such collection in the world. It encompasses works from 1540 to 2005. The...
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The Way West: Art of Frontier America
By Peter H. HassrickThe Way West: Art of Frontier America
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Landscape Into Art
By Kenneth Clark"This text shows how man has attempted to convert the complexity of natural appearances into the unity of an idea: by symbols, by curiosity about facts, by fantasy to relieve...
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Paul Klee: Painting Music
By Hajo DüchtingNow available in paperback, this illuminating work examines the fascinating bond between music and painting in Paul Klee's art.A talented violinist as well as a painter, Klee drew much of...
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Japanese Ghosts & Demons: Art of the Supernatural
By Stephen AddissJapan has perhaps the most lively and richly developed tradition of supernatural lore of any civilization. It is comprised of some of the most relentlessly fearsome goblins, demons, metamorphosed animals...
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Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection
By Deborah Hart, Glenn BarkleyArt can illuminate and enrich our lives in many ways. It can excite, provoke, intrigue, and inspire. Home Sweet Home demonstrates some of the possibilities of discovering art by transforming...
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Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art
By Linda Nochlin, Maura ReillyThis publication brings together works by over eighty contemporary women artists from over fifty countries, among them Catherine Opie, Miwa Yanagi, Pilar Albarracín, Shahzia Sikander and Yin Xiuzhen. Contributions by...
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George Caleb Bingham
By Michael Edward Shapiro, George Caleb BinghamGeorge Caleb Bingham was one of Missouri's and one of American's greatest artists. Raised in central Missouri, he lived as an itinerant painter in St. Louis and, as a mature...
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1000 Years of the Olympic Games: Treasures of Ancient Greece
By Paul Donnelly, Elisabeth Spathari, Terry MeashamThe ancient Olympic Games began in 776 BC and ran for over 1000 years, waning during the Roman Empire and the advent of Christianity. The ancient games were imbued with...
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Death and Dying in the Middle Ages
By Barbara I. Gusick, Edelgard E. DuBruckDeath and Dying in the Middle Ages examines medical facts and communal arrangements, as well as religious and popular beliefs and rituals concerning the end of life in Western societies....
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War, Literature, and the Arts in Sixteenth-century Europe
By J. R. Mulryne, Margaret ShewringWar, Literature, and the Arts in Sixteenth-century Europe
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Collecting the West: The C.R. Smith Collection of Western American Art
By Richard H. Saunders, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery"A consistently outstanding volume, from the introductory essay by Richard Saunders on patronage and western art, to the engaging and well-researched captions by a number of Saunders' former students at...
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Eroticism in Western Art
By Edward Lucie-SmithEroticism in Western Art
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Manifestations of Venus: Art and Sexuality
By Caroline Arscott, Katie ScottThis fascinating book takes as its starting point the recurrent motif of Venus as the associated figure of Cupid in Western art from the Renaissance to the present day. Original...
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Ars Erotica: An Arousing History of Erotic Art
By Edward Lucie-SmithArs Erotica looks at the way in which perceptions of the erotic and its expressions have changed at turning points in Western history - how the interplay of repression and...
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Natural Habitat: Contemporary Wildlife Artists of North America
By Lisa N. Peters, Carol Lowrey, William H. GerdtsNatural Habitat: Contemporary Wildlife Artists of North America
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Great Bird Paintings of the World: The eighteenth century
By Christine Elisabeth JacksonIn this second volume of a five-part series Christine Jackson illustrates works by major artists of the period, including Pieter Casteels, Marmaduke Cradock, Willem Frederick van Royen, Tobias Stranover, Jakob...