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    The Pictorial Turn

    This seminal collection of essays is the first to be devoted to the pictorial turn. It brings together theorists from across the humanities and social sciences with a paleontologist and practising artists. Together they consider the relation between pictures and images, the power of landscape, the life of images, and the pictorial uncanny amongst many other things.

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    Contemporary British Art

    The last few decades have been among the most dynamic within recent British cultural history. Artists across all genres and media have developed and re-fashioned their practice against a radically changing social and cultural landscape. Contemporary British Art is an ideal introduction to the field, taking a fresh look at some of the themes, ideas and directions which have informed British art since the later 1980s.

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    Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination

    Art can change the way we imagine, understand and engage with the world and with others very different than ourselves. In this sense, art participates in a critical dialog between cosmopolitan imagination, embodied ethics and locational identity. Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination offers a challenging new direction in the current literature on cosmopolitanism, globalization and art.

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    Photography: A Critical Introduction, 4th Edition

    Edited by Liz Wells

    This revised and updated fourth edition examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts. New and improved sections include: key concepts, biographies of major thinkers, and seminal references; a full glossary of terms, comprehensive bibliography and new chapter abstracts; updated resource information, including guides to public archives and useful websites.

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    An Introduction to Visual Culture, 2nd Edition

    By Nicholas Mirzoeff

    Tracing the history and theory of visual culture, from painting to the World Wide Web, An Introduction to Visual Culture asks how and why visual media have become so central to everyday life. Revised and updated, new features in the second edition include Key Image studies from Holbein's The Ambassadors, to Blade Runner and the Abu Ghraib atrocities; and a Key Words section in each chapter, discussing vital critical terms and the debates that surround them.