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Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945)

Table of Contents: “…Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde's Indifference to Sport / John Hughson Chapter 4 'Vive le sport!' German Expressionism and Dada / Andreas Kramer -- Chapter 5 Sports and the Bauhaus: Bringing School to Life / Joann Skrypzak-Davidsmeyer -- Chapter 6 A New Pitch: Art, Sport and the Impact of the Avant-Garde in the Soviet Union in the 1920s / Mike O'Mahony -- Chapter 7 Workers' Sport, Mountaineering and the Avant-Garde Left in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland: On Sporting Content in ReD, Munka and Dźwignia / Przemystaw Strożek -- Chapter 8 After Purism: The Young Man's Home at the 1935 Brussels Exhibition / Bernard Vere.…”
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Merce Cunningham and the modernizing of modern dance by Copeland, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Beyond The Ethos of Abstract Expressionism; 4. The Limitations of Instinct; 5. Contemporary Classicism; 6. …”
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Modern Architecture. by Colquhoun, Alan

Table of Contents: “…. -- The urn and the chamberpot: Adolf Loos 1900-30. -- Expressionism and futurism. -- The Avant-gardes in Holland and Russia. -- Return to order: Le Corbusier and modern architecture in France 1920-35. -- Weimar Germany: the dialectic of the modern 1920-33. -- From rationalism to revisionism: architecture in Italy 1920-65. -- Neoclassicism, organicism, and the welfare state: architecture in Scandinavia 1910-65. -- From Le Corbusier to megastructures: urban visions 1930-65. -- Pax Americana: architecture in America 1945-65.…”
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Cézanne and American modernism by Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Epilogue : Cézanne and abstract expressionism / Mary Tompkins Lewis.…”

A History of Modern Drama. by Krasner, David

Table of Contents: “…A History of Modern Drama; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I: Trauma Drama; Chapter 2 The Price of Freedom; Chapter 3 Unhinged Subjectivity; Chapter 4 Aboulia; Part II: Modernist Beginnings; Chapter 5 Rising Symbolism; Chapter 6 Rising Expressionism; Part III: Realism; Chapter 7 Rural Realism; Chapter 8 Urban Realism; Chapter 9 Optimistic Passion; Chapter 10 The Campaign Against Earnestness; Part IV: Dissociated Sensibility; Chapter 11 Distorted Modernism; Chapter 12 Lyrical Modernism; Chapter 13 Sentimental Modernism; Part V: Avant Garde.…”
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Munch. by Bade, Patrick

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Modernism by Levenson, Michael H. (Michael Harry), 1951-

The Vienna School of Art History Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847-1918. by Rampley, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…7 Readings of Modern Art: Historicism, Impressionism, Expressionism -- 8 Between East and West -- 9 Saving the Past: Conservation and the Cult of Monuments -- Epilogue: Continuity and Rupture After 1918 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover…”
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Americanization And Anti-americanism : the German Encounter with American Culture after 1945.

Table of Contents: “…Americanization and Anti-Americanism; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART 1: POLITICS OF CULTURE; ANTI-AMERICANISM AND AMERICANIZATION; COUNTER-AMERICANISM AND CRITICAL CURRENTS IN WEST GERMAN RECONSTRUCTION 1945-1960; SAIGON, NUREMBERG, AND THE WEST; PART 2: POPULAR CULTURE; RESISTING BOOGIE-WOOGIE CULTURE, ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, AND POP ART; FROM NIGHTMARE TO MODEL?; LEARNING FROM AMERICA; PART 3: FILM; CINEMATIC AMERICANIZATION OF THE HOLOCAUST IN GERMANY; ANTI-AMERICANISM AND THE COLD WAR; GERMAN CINEMA FACE TO FACE WITH HOLLYWOOD; PART 4. …”
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Nazi exhibition design and modernism by Tymkiw, Michael, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Falling into Line: Three Early Experiments in Visualizing Collectivity Formation; 2. Reconfiguring Expressionism: Otto Andreas Schreiber and the Mass Production of Factory Exhibitions; Part II. …”
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Culture and external relations : Europe and beyond

Table of Contents: “…Neumann -- The logics of culture in the anglosphere / Srdjan Vučetić -- Culture and collective identifications / Monika Mokre -- Exclusion and transversalism: culture in the EU's external relations / Jozef Bátora -- 'Culture' in EU-Turkey relations / Bahar Rumelili and Didem Cakmakli -- Abstract expressionism as a weapon of the Cold War / Manfred J. …”
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Exploring the work of Edward S. Casey : giving voice to place, memory, and imagination

Table of Contents: “…The glance and the paradox of surface and depthAbstract expressionism and glimpsing the sublime; 12 Slipping Glancer: Painting Place with Ed Casey; Groping through matter; Smoothing place; Writing like a painter; Coda: First places last; 13 Drawing with/in and Drawing Out: A Redefinition of Architectural Drawing through Edward S. …”
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Beyond Aesthetics and Politics : Philosophical and Axiological Studies on the Avant-Garde, Pragmatism, and Postmodernism. by Skowronski, Krzysztof Piotr

Table of Contents: “…Critique of Primitivism and Caricature (in Cubism and Expressionism).…”
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Max Pechstein. by Fulda, Bernhard

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Shirley Gorelick (1924-2000) : painter of humanist realism by Hottle, Andrew D.

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Line let loose : scribbling, doodling and automatic drawing by Maclagan, David, 1940-

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Pollock. by Wigal, Donald

Table of Contents: “…ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; Reproductions; Titles of Paintings; Biographies; Historical Context; Portraits; Cycles; THE MYTH OF THE ARTIST COWBOY; Birth; Cody; Fiction; The Real McCoy; Stranger Than Fiction; The Pollock Family; Religion; Pollock the Cowboy; Family Politics; Early Veils; The Advent of Abstract Expressionism; The Early Influences; Pre-teen Art Education; Uprooted Again; Teenage Years; Early Vision of Career; Roots of Alcoholic Behaviour; Benton; American Art; The Need for an American Artist; The Movie: Pollock; Dean of Art; Lee Krasner.…”
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The graphic design idea book : inspiration from 50 masters by Heller, Steven, Anderson, Gail, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Paper Art Monumentalism; Motion Design; User-Friendly Design; Abstraction; Expressionism; Retro; Ornament; Frames and Borders; Sampling; Parody; Vernacular; Vintage Ephemera; Simplicity; Information Graphics; Symbols; Targeting; Persuasion; Graphic Commentary; Narrative; Mood; Emotion; Wit and Humour…”
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Twentieth-Century American Art. by Doss, Erika

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Gilded Age; Chapter 2 Early American Modernism: the Art of Everyday Life; Chapter 3 Avant-Garde Art and Experimentation; Chapter 4 Modernism and the Interwar Years; Chapter 5 A New Deal for the Arts: the Great Depression; Chapter 6 Abstract Expressionism; Chapter 7 Neo-Dada and Pop Art; Chapter 8 Minimalism and Conceptual Art; Chapter 9 Feminist Art and Black Art; Chapter 10 Culture Wars: the 1980s; Chapter 11 Contemporary Art; Notes; Further Reading; Timeline; Museums and Websites; List of Illustrations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F…”
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Videofashion collections.

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A short history of the Weimar Republic by Storer, Colin

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Jasper Johns. by Craft, Catherine

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A history of opera : milestones and metamorphoses by Fisher, Burton D.

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The great migrator : Robert Rauschenberg and the global rise of American art / Robert Rauschenberg and the global rise of American art by Ikegami, Hiroko, 1973-

Emperors and emperorship in late antiquity : images and narratives by García Ruiz, Ma. Pilar (María Pilar), Quiroga Puertas, Alberto J., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Torres -- The Caesars: a myth on Julian's emperorship / María Pilar García Ruiz -- Cosmic warnings and imperial responses: Ammianus' astronomical excursuses / Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz -- Between expressionism and classicism: stylistic choices as means of legitimisation in late fourth-century imperial portraits / Fabio Guidetti -- The letter from Magnus Maximus to Valentinian II (CA 39): two imperial images in conflict / María Victoria Escribano -- Toying with Theodosius: the manipulation of the imperial image in the sources of the riot of the statues / Alberto J. …”
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Culture in Nazi Germany by Kater, Michael H., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Deconstructing modernism : A purge of the Weimar era ; New Nazi controls ; The quarrel over expressionism ; Exhibitions of degenerate art and music -- Pre-war Nazi culture : The propaganda ministry and culture ; Literature ; The press and radio ; Film and stage ; Music ; The visual arts and architecture ; An interim accounting -- Jews in the Nazi cultural establishment : Anti-Jewish measures ; The Jewish Culture League ; Anti-Semitism in the Nazi arts ; Human tragedies -- War and public opinion, propaganda, and culture : Movies for guidance, indoctrination, and distraction ; The communication arts: radio, press, and newsreels ; Music and theater in the service of the war ; Book and sword ; Art and architecture ; Culture to the fronts -- Artist émigrés : Political, economic, and psychological barriers ; False refugees? …”
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Videofashion news.

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The EYE. / Gillian Ayres

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Joyce/Lowry : critical perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Midsummer madness and the day of the dead : Joyce, Lowry, and expressionism / Sherrill Grace -- Clown meets cops : comedy and paranoia in Under the Volcano and Ulysses / Joseph C. …”
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In the footsteps of Rene Richard

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Soutine. by Carl, Klaus H.

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Brecht on art and politics / Brecht on art & politics by Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; General Introduction and Acknowledgements; Part One: Early Writings and Polemics 1914-1928; Introduction; 1 Extracts from the 'Augsburg War Letters'; 2 From the 1920 Notebooks; 3 On Habitual Patriotism; 4 On Expressionism and Dadaism; 5 On German Literature; 6 Mood and Opinion; 7 Let's Get Back to Detective Novels!…”
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Miró : theatre of dreams / Joan Miro

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Modernism by Levenson, Michael H. (Michael Harry), 1951-

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Cinematic encounters : interviews and dialogues by Rosenbaum, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: in defense of critical interactivity -- The voice and the eye: a commentary on The heart of darkness script -- Tati's democracy -- Paris journal on Stavisky -- Show business in the end: interview with Jim McBride -- Phantom interviewers over rivette -- "Conversation" with Paul Morrissey -- Geraldine Chaplin interview (from London Journal) -- Obscure objects of desire: a jam session on non-narrative -- Sam Fuller spills his guts -- Catching up with Godard -- A lesson in modesty: speaking with Alain Resnais -- Cinema at a distance: interview with Peter Gidal -- The "presents" of Michael Snow -- Ivan the bearable: Ivan Passer on Cutter's way -- Just Jost -- On location with John Carpenter's The thing -- Jackie Raynal -- Documentary expressionism: the films of William Klein -- Pages from the Endfield file -- The Seberg we missed: interview with Mark Rappaport -- A gun up your ass: interview with Jim Jarmusch -- Trailer for Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema -- Falling down, walking, destroying, thinking: a conversation with Bela Tarr -- Trying to catch up with Raul Ruiz -- A handful of world: the films of Peter Thompson.…”
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Western Art and the Wider World by Wood, Paul

Table of Contents: “…. -- History and Empire -- European Effects -- Mughal India -- Japan -- China -- East-West Crossings -- Inception of "Orientalism" -- Looking Out -- Chinoiserie -- Exclusivity -- Hegel -- Other Ideas -- Orientalism -- Orientalism and Naturalism -- Orientalism Revisited -- Modernity -- Manet and "Japonisme" -- Primitivism -- The Question of Origins -- Primitivism and Expressionism -- Academy and Empire…”
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Closely watched films : an introduction to the art of narrative film technique by Fabe, Marilyn

Table of Contents: “…Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; 2 The Art of Montage: Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin; 3 Expressionism and Realism in Film Form: F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh and Charles Chaplin's The Adventurer; 4 The Conversion to Sound and the Classical Hollywood Film: Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday; 5 Expressive Realism: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane; 6 Italian Neorealism: Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief.…”
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Hans Richter : activism, modernism, and the avant-garde

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The British aesthetic tradition : from Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein by Costelloe, Timothy M.

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Modernism by Levenson, Michael H. (Michael Harry), 1951-

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