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71. Greek Painted Pottery

    3rd Edition

    By R M Cook **Decd**, R. M. Cook

    Greek Painted Pottery has been used by classics and classical archaeology students for some thirty years. It thoroughly examines all painted pottery styles from the Protogeometric to the Hellenistic period from all areas of Greece and from the colonies in parts of Italy. In each case it covers the...

    Published March 5th 1997 by Routledge
72. Learning to Look at Paintings

    By Mary Acton

    This is a critique of works of art dating from the early fifteenth century through to modern installations. Suggesting a series of questions to ask when looking at a painting this will help develop a critical understanding of art....

    Published March 5th 1997 by Routledge
73. An Intimate Distance

    Women, Artists and the Body

    By Rosemary Betterton

    An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food, consumption and sex. A feminist reclamation of...

    Published October 2nd 1996 by Routledge
74. Thinking About Exhibitions

    By Bruce W. Ferguson, Reesa Greenberg, Sandy Nairne

    An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions, as well as investigating the challenge of staging art presentations, displays or performances, in...

    Published March 6th 1996 by Routledge
75. Design and Aesthetics

    A Reader

    Edited by Mo Dodson, Jerry Palmer

    Design and Aesthetics: A Reader is a comprehensive student reader on design history and aesthetic theory. It includes contributions from many of the writers whose work has been foundational to these two fields, including classic articles by Raymond Williams and Roger Scruton, and newer articles...

    Published December 27th 1995 by Routledge
76. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture

    Edited by Martin Lister

    Series: Comedia

    What does a new technology of images mean for the ways in which we encounter and use images in everyday life: in advertising, entertainment, news, evidence? And within our domestic and private worlds for our sense of self and indentity; our view of the body and our sexuality? The Photographic...

    Published August 30th 1995 by Routledge
77. Civilizing Rituals

    Inside Public Art Museums

    By Carol Duncan

    Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community. Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private...

    Published May 17th 1995 by Routledge
78. Painting Women

    Victorian Women Artists

    By Deborah Cherry

    Looks at the experience of women painters within the oppressive confines of the Victorian patriarchy. Using biographies, journals and letters Cherry shows how their working lives were shaped by the social order of difference....

    Published June 16th 1993 by Routledge
79. The Myth of Primitivism

    Edited by Susan Hiller

    This book explores the fusion of myth, history and geography which leads to ideas of primitivism, and looks at their construction, interpretation and consumption in Western culture. Contextualized by Susan Hiller's introductions to each section, discussions range from the origins of cultural...

    Published June 5th 1991 by Routledge
80. Timeshift

    On Video Culture

    By Sean Cubitt

    Series: Comedia

    Focusing on the aesthetics of video, Timeshift tests current semiotic, postmodernist and psychoanalytic approaches in the laboratory of real-life video viewing....

    Published January 2nd 1991 by Routledge