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Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa
Sadistic Cholas

Analyzing how Peruvian feminist art and activism subverts and reclaims the chola stereotype to confront colonial and patriarchal institutions.Indigenous Andean women have long been derided in Peru, spurne…

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Eva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo,
Contemporary Chilean Filmmaking

An in-depth exploration of how traumatic memories of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) have shaped contemporary filmmaking ethics and aesthetics.

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Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa
Sadistic Cholas

Analyzing how Peruvian feminist art and activism subverts and reclaims the chola stereotype to confront colonial and patriarchal institutions.Indigenous Andean women have long been derided in Peru, spurne…

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Adam Geczy,
Contemporary Art and Other Obstructions

What is the position of art in contemporary culture, where it is threatened by an ever-greater diversity of media, discourses, practices, genres and forms? Contemporary Art and Other Obstructions sets out…

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Sarah Craycraft
The Village Project

Since the collapse of socialism, Bulgaria's population has been on the move---out of rural regions and into cities, or out of the country altogether. Yet today there is a countermovement of young, urban B…

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Amber Creswell Bell
About Face

A vibrant survey of contemporary portrait painters by bestselling author and curator Amber Creswell Bell.

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Michael Petry
Mirrormirror

A dazzling and intriguing exploration of the use of mirrors and reflective surfaces as a medium in global contemporary art.

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Jacob Leigh
Contemporary Directors' Cinema

Contemporary Directors' Cinemarefreshes the argument about the role of the director through the practice of evaluative criticism. The book identifies what makes nine recent films successful achievements b…

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Robert Shore,
Blow Up!

THE JOURNEY OF CONTEMPORARY ART FROM MARCEL DUCHAMP'S REPURPOSED URINAL TO MAURIZIO CATTELAN'S TAPED BANANA.How did a urinal become art? A can of soup? A pickled shark? A banana taped to a wall? This grap…

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Mediterranean Musicscapes in Contemporary Spain

"This volume focuses on the musicscapes that contest, critique, and rethink Mediterraneidad (Mediterraneaness) in Contemporary Spain, and understands it as a fluid and elusive sociological, cultural,…

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The Legacy of Kant in Contemporary Philosophy

A collection of essays examining the topicality of Kant's thought and its impact on the development of contemporary philosophy.

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Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, Nalini Bhushan, Jay L Garfield
Subject as Freedom

Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (1875-1947) was one of the most prominent philosophers in India in the first half of the 20th century. He was King George Professor of Philosophy at Presidency College in Calc…

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Practical Truth

The sixteen essays in this collection concern the origin of practical truth in Aristotle's ethics, the history of practical truth throughout the intervening centuries, and the role it currently plays in c…

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Cara Wallis
Social Media and Ordinary Life

How Chinese citizens use social mediaFocusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnograp…

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Keystone Poetry

"Celebrates Pennsylvania's literary traditions and diverse voices with 179 poems exploring the state's towns, history, and culture. This geographically organized collection offers new perspectives on…

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Liu Jieyu
Embedded Generations

An interconnected, nuanced, and nonlinear view of Chinese family life since 1949With Embedded Generations , Liu Jieyu offers a comprehensive examination of Chinese family life since the Chinese Communist …

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Amanda Cachia
The Agency of Access

"In this book, Amanda Cachia argues that contemporary disabled artists make inequities in the museum more transparent by moving away from representations of disability. She argues that they instead c…

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Kana Inata
Monarchies in the Contemporary World

While constitutional monarchs tend to be considered as powerless, unselfish, and politically neutral and hence received little scholarly attention, Monarchies in the Contemporary World sheds fresh light o…

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Sally O'Reilly
The Body in Contemporary Art

World of Art

A thorough international survey of the body's role in contemporary art, fully revised and updated.The Body in Contemporary Art presents an international survey of art made since 2000 that takes the body a…

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Roxanne L Euben
Driven to Their Knees

How the rhetoric of humiliation defines the powerful and the powerless in modern politicsHumiliation pervades our politics, from images of stripped Palestinian men in Gaza to mocking chants at MAGA rallie…

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