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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2024

Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas

by Linda Levy Peck, Adrianna E. Bakos

Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book. Women's experience of exile was often different from that of men, yet it has not received the important attention it deserves. Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas addresses that lacuna through a wide-ranging geographical, chronological, social and cultural approach. Whether powerful, well-to-do or impoverished, exiled by force or choice, every woman faced the question of how to reconstruct her life in a new place. These essays focus on women's agency despite the pressures created by political, economic and social dislocation. Collectively, they demonstrate how these women from different countries, continents and status groups not only survived but also in many cases thrived. This analysis of early modern women's experiences not only provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile but also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.

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The Arts

August 2010

Women artists between the Wars

'A fair field and no favour'

by Katy Deepwell

Starting with a critique of existing methodologies and histories of the period, this book examines the production of women artists, looking at different areas and aspects of their activities, and particularly contrasting the lives of different generations of women artists. Many of these women's names or their works are not familiar in art histories of the twentieth century. The book analyses how women artists' presence which was consistently one third of the artists in many major exhibiting groups became less than 10% of the museum purchases and in art historical texts for this period. Comparisons are made between the opportunities presented to women artists and those of their male peers in the light of considerable change and restructuring within the art world in Britain during this period, principally due to the growing influence of modernism in the art market. ;

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The Arts

June 2021

Art and migration

by Bénédicte Miyamoto, Marie Ruiz, Amelia Jones

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September 1988

Polen im Exil

Eine Anthologie

by Krzysztof Dybciak, Josef Bujnoch, Karl Dedecius, Armin Droß, Krzysztof Dybciak

Gallus Anonymus: König Boleslaw in Ungarn. (I.Bujnoch). Kadl'ubek, Wincenty: Der Tyrann auf der Flucht. (Ch.Reitz). Potocki, Wacl'aw: Die Verbannung der polnischen Brüder. Über die konfiszierten Güter der Arianer. Potocki, Wacl'aw: Lied I. Auf Irrfahrt während der Kriegswirren. (H.-P. Hoelscher-Obermaier). Morsztyn, Zbigniew: Emblem 3. (H.-P. Hoelscher-Obermaier). Leszczyn'ski, Stanisl'aw: An meinen lieben Primas und die polnischen Herren. (A. Lawaty). _: Erinnerung eines französischen Diplomaten (P. Tercier). (A. Lawaty). Leszczyn'ski, Stanisl'aw: Die Reise von Danzig nach Marienwerder. (A. Lawaty). Kitowicz, Je,drzej: Die Konföderierten beim Sultan und beim Kaiser. (B. Nenzel). _: Das letzte Manifest der Generalität. (A. Lawaty). _: Der Gründungsakt einer Deputation. (A. Lawaty). Wybicki, Józef: Lied der Polnischen Legionen in Italien. (H.-P. Hoelscher-Obermaier). Czartoryski, Adam J.: Am russischen Hof. (K. Staemmler). _: Erinnerungen von Soldaten der napoleonischen Kriege. Im Spanienfeldzug Napoleons 1808. Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig. (K. Staemmler). Mickiewicz, Adam: In Rußland. (W. Schamschula). _: An die polnischen Kämpfer. (W. Lipscher). _: An die deutsche Nation. Mickiewicz, Adam: Die Bücher der Polnischen Pilgerschaft. (P.J.B.-G.G.R. 1833). Slowacki, Juliusz: Gedichte. (M. Remané. H.-P. Hoelscher Obermaier. W. Panitz). _: Polnische Demokratische Gesellschaft: Das große Manifest. (W. Lipscher). Czartoryski, Adam J.: Als Zuschauer. Rede vom 29.November 1842 (K. Staemmler). Krasin'ski, Zygmunt: Memorandum an Guizot. (F. Griese). Norwid, Cyprian Kamil: Gedanken und Profile. (V. Koerner. H.-P. Hoelscher-Obermaier). Chopin, Fryderyk: Aus dem Exil. (V. Körner). Da,browski, Jarosl'aw: Zum Kampf bereit. (W. Lipscher). Pil'sudski, Bronisl'aw: Bei dem Volk der Niwchen. (A. Lawaty). Dzierz.yn'ski, Feliks: Aus der Verbannung im Wjatka-Gouvernement. (A. Lawaty). Sienkiewicz, Henryk: Offene Briefe. (V. Körner). Mil'osz, Czesl'aw: Die Reise nach As...

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The Arts

March 1905

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

by Wassily Kandinsky

A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and crystallizes the ideas that were influencing many other modern artists of the period. Along with his own groundbreaking paintings, this book had a tremendous impact on the development of modern art. Kandinsky's ideas are presented in two parts. The first part, called "About General Aesthetic," issues a call for a spiritual revolution in painting that will let artists express their own inner lives in abstract, non-material terms. Just as musicians do not depend upon the material world for their music, so artists should not have to depend upon the material world for their art. In the second part, "About Painting," Kandinsky discusses the psychology of colors, the language of form and color, and the responsibilities of the artist. An Introduction by the translator, Michael T. H. Sadler, offers additional explanation of Kandinsky's art and theories, while a new Preface by Richard Stratton discusses Kandinsky's career as a whole and the impact of the book. Making the book even more valuable are nine woodcuts by Kandinsky himself that appear at the chapter headings. This English translation of Über das Geistige in der Kunst was a significant contribution to the understanding of nonobjectivism in art. It continues to be a stimulating and necessary reading experience for every artist, art student, and art patron concerned with the direction of 20th-century painting.

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The Arts

March 2013

Women, the arts and globalization

Eccentric experience

by Marsha Meskimmon, Amelia Jones, Dorothy C. Rowe, Dorothy Rowe, Marsha Meskimmon

Women, the arts and globalization: Eccentric experience is the first anthology to bring transnational feminist theory and criticism together with women's art practices to discuss the connections between aesthetics, gender and identity in a global world. The essays in Women, the Arts and Globalization demonstrate that women in the arts are rarely positioned at the centre of the art market, and the movement of women globally (as travelers or migrants, empowered artists/scholars or exiled practitioners), rarely corresponds with the dominant models of global exchange. Rather, contemporary women's art practices provide a fascinating instance of women's eccentric experiences of the myriad effects of globalization. Bringing scholarly essays on gender, art and globalization together with interviews and autobiographical accounts of personal experiences, the diversity of the book is relevant to artists, art historians, feminist theorists and humanities scholars interested in the impact of globalization on culture in the broadest sense. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2025

Transnational solidarity

Anticolonialism in the global sixties

by Zeina Maasri, Cathy Bergin, Francesca Burke

Transnational solidarity excavates the forgotten histories of solidarity that were vital to radical political imaginaries during the 'long' 1960s. It decentres the conventional Western focus of this critical historical moment by foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-imperialist liberation struggles. The book traces the ways in which solidarity was conceived, imagined and enacted in the border crossings - of nation, race and class - made by grassroots activists. This diverse collection draws links between exiled revolutionaries in Uruguay, post-colonial immigrants in Britain, and Greek communist refugees in East Germany who campaigned for their respective causes from afar while identifying and linking up with wider liberation struggles. Meanwhile, Arab immigrants in France, Pakistani volunteers and Iraqi artists found myriad ways to express solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Neglected archives also reveal Tricontinental Cuban-based genealogies of artistic militancy, as well as transnational activist networks against Portuguese colonial rule in Africa. Bringing together original research with contributions from veteran activists and artists, this interdisciplinary volume explores how transnational solidarity was expressed in and carried through the itineraries of migrants and revolutionaries, film and print cultures, art and sport, political campaigns and armed struggle. It presents a novel perspective on radical politics of the global sixties which remains crucial to understanding anti-racist solidarity today. With a foreword by Vijay Prashad.

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Gender studies: men

November 2007

Representing Renaissance art, c.1500–c.1600

by Catherine E. King

Representing Renaissance art, c.1500-c.1600 is a study of change and continuity in the iconographies of art and the visual representation of artists during the sixteenth century, especially in Italy and the Netherlands. The issue of how, and how far, artists obtained higher status for their profession during the Renaissance is a key question for the study of the early modern period. This book considers the maintenance of well-established traditions for the visual representation of artists, and also examines the new iconographies that emerged in the sixteenth century. By highlighting art and architecture that artists designed for their personal use, including the decoration of their houses, this study provides insight into the tastes and 'ways of looking' specific to artists. By examining the visual evidence we see the opinions both of artists who expressed their views in literary texts, and additionally those of artists who did not publish their ideas in written form.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2022

Internal exile in Fascist Italy

by Piero Garofalo, Elizabeth Leake, Dana Renga

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2025

Expatriate

Following a migration category

by Sarah Kunz

Who are expatriates? How do they differ from other migrants? And why should we care about such distinctions? Expatriate interrogates the contested category of 'the expatriate' to explore its history and politics, its making and lived experience. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, the book offers a critical reading of International Human Resource Management literature, explores the work and history of the Expatriate Archive Centre in The Hague, and studies the usage and significance of the category in Kenyan history and present-day 'expat Nairobi'. Doing so, the book traces the figure of the expatriate from the mid-twentieth-century era of decolonisation to today's heated debates about migration.

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The Arts

January 2012

Art, ethnography and the life of objects

Paris, c.1925–35

by Julia Kelly, Marsha Meskimmon, Shearer West, Tim Barringer

In the 1920s and 1930s, anthropology and ethnography provided new and striking ways of rethinking what art could be and the forms which it could take. This book examines the impact of these emergent disciplines on the artistic avant-garde in Paris. The reception by European artists of objects arriving from colonial territories in the first half of the twentieth century is generally understood through the artistic appropriation of the forms of African or Oceanic sculpture. The author reveals how anthropological approaches to this intriguing material began to affect the ways in which artists, theorists, critics and curators thought about three-dimensional objects and their changing status as 'art', 'artefacts' or 'ethnographic evidence'. This book analyses texts, photographs and art works that cross disciplinary boundaries, through case studies including the Dakar to Djibouti expedition of 1931-33, the Trocadéro Ethnographic Museum, and the two art periodicals Documents and Minotaure. Through its interdisciplinary and contextual approach, it provides an important corrective to histories of modern art and the European avant-garde. ;

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Literature & Literary Studies

October 2012

Art and Literature of the Second Empire

by David Baguley

This volume explores the characteristics of the art and literature of the Second Empire in France; it examines the attitudes and positioning of artists and writers of the period in relation to a regime of dubious legitimacy, and the ways in which that regime exploited to its advantage the artistic capital available to it. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2025

Empirical art

Filmmaking for fieldwork in practice

by Andy Lawrence, Martha-Cecilia Dietrich

Empirical art: Filmmaking for fieldwork in practice is an insightful exploration of what the craft of filmmaking brings to social science research. Providing creative avenues on how to narrate encounters, relationships, and experiences during fieldwork, this comprehensive volume offers a rich tapestry of theoretical explorations and explorative methodologies. Skilfully connecting the worlds of ethnography, art and cinema, the contributors in this book act as a compass for filmmakers and researchers venturing to use a camera and microphone to relate and narrate their research collaborations and fieldsites. Drawing from the authors' extensive experience in disciplines like social anthropology, environmental humanities, and political science, "Empirical Art" breaks down the intricate process of crafting ethnographic films that departs from the researcher's subjectivity. Covering aspects of filmmaking from conceptualisation to production and distribution, readers are equipped with a treasure trove of collaborative techniques, innovative approaches, and ethical considerations necessary to generate and examine storytelling practices in contemporary fields of study. The authors discuss the significance of the multiple roles that technologies of filmmaking play in reflecting on cultural practices, social dynamics, and (beyond) human storytelling and their transformative potentials. Whether a seasoned filmmaker, an aspiring ethnographer, or an academic seeking new dimensions for their research, Empirical Art serves as a guide to integrating visual storytelling, cinema craft and empirical research.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2022

Deportation limbo

by Annika Lindberg

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The Arts

March 2018

Art versus industry?

New perspectives on visual and industrial cultures in nineteenth-century Britain

by Christopher Breward, Kate Nichols, Bill Sherman, Rebecca Wade, Gabriel Williams

This book is about encounters between art and industry in nineteenth-century Britain. It looks beyond the oppositions established by later interpretations of the work of John Ruskin, William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement to reveal surprising examples of collaboration - between artists, craftspeople, designers, inventors, curators, engineers and educators - during a crucial period in the formation of the cultural and commercial identity of Britain and its colonies. Across thirteen chapters by fourteen contributors, Art versus industry? explores such diverse subjects as the production of lace, the mechanical translation of sculpture, the display of stained glass, the use of the kaleidoscope in painting and pattern design, the emergence of domestic electric lighting and the development of art and design education and international exhibitions in India.

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May 2001

Der Tod im Exil

Hermann Broch/Annemarie Meier-Graefe. Briefwechsel 1950–51

by Hermann Broch, Annemarie Meier-Graefe, Paul Michael Lützeler

»Seit langer Zeit empfinde ich so etwas wie Glück, und da kommt das schlechte Gewissen – denn sobald ich an Dich denke und an die Umstände, unter denen Du existierst, habe ich das instinktive, anerzogene oder angeborene Pflichtgefühl, ich hab da zu sein, wo Du bist.« Der Wunsch, wieder bei ihrem Ehemann zu sein, erfüllte sich für Annemarie Meier-Graefe indes nicht. Im Juni 1950 hatte sie das Passagierschiff »Queen Mary« nach Europa genommen. Hermann Broch wollte bald folgen. Zwei Jahre lebte das Ehepaar durch den Atlantik voneinander getrennt, dann stirbt Broch im amerikanischen Exil. Der Tod im Exil ist der bewegende Briefwechsel des in den USA innerlich vereinsamenden Autors Broch mit seiner wesentlich jüngeren Frau, die in Europa ihre Heimat wiederfindet und sich mit viel Energie und Lebensmut eine neue Existenz aufbaut. Nur selten finden die zwei Stimmen zu einem Gleichklang. Ihre Lebenserwartungen und Zukunftspläne erweisen sich als unvereinbar. Mit seinen Sehnsüchten, Befürchtungen, Vorwürfen und Hoffnungen ist dieser Briefwechsel auch ein beeindruckendes Zeitdokument der Jahre 1950/51 – Annemarie Meier-Graefes Berichte aus Frankreich und Deutschland lesen sich wie zeitkritische Feuilletons –, als die Folgen von Krieg und Holocaust noch überall sichtbar waren und in Korea eine neue Weltkrise begann.

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The Arts

September 2024

Cases of citation

On literature in art

by Chloe Julius, Michael Green, Matthew Holman

Cases of citation presents a history of artists who incorporated literary references into their work from the 1960s onwards. Through a series of object-focused chapters that each take up a singular 'case of citation', the collection considers how literary citation emerged as a viable and urgent strategy for artists during this period. It surveys eleven artworks by a diverse group of artists - including David Wojnarowicz, Lis Rhodes, Romare Bearden and Silvia Kolbowski - whose citations draw on works as varied as Karl Marx's Das Kapital and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The book also features an interview with pioneering feminist artist Elaine Reichek that discusses her career-long commitment to working with text. Together, the artworks and cited texts are approached from various critical angles, with each author questioning and complicating the ways in which we can 'read' textual citations in art.

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Art: Financial Aspects

The rise of the modern art market in London

1850–1939

by Edited by Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich

Now available in paperback for the first time, this study of the modern London art market establishes the central importance of London for the development of the modern retail market in fine art. Leading experts track the emergence and development of the structures and practices that have come to characterize the commercial art system, including the commercial art gallery, the professional dealer, the exhibition cycle and its accompanying rhetoric of press coverage and publicity, and an international network for the circulation of goods. This new commercial system involved a massive transformation of the experience of viewing art; of the relationships between artists, dealers, collectors, art objects and audiences; and of the very criteria of aesthetic value itself. Its history is thus a vital part of the history of modern art, and this anthology will be of interest to art historians as well as scholars of Victorian Studies, Museum Studies, and Social History.

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The Arts

February 2022

"I am Jugoslovenka!"

Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism

by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon

"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.

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The Arts

December 2024

Engendering an avant-garde

The unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism

by Leah Modigliani

Engendering an avant-garde is the first book to comprehensively examine the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism in its regional context between 1968 and 1990. Employing discourse analysis of texts written by and about artists, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory, the book discusses the historical transition from artists' creation of 'defeatured landscapes' between 1968-71 to their cinematographic photographs of the late 1970s and the backlash against such work by other artists in the late 1980s. It is the first study to provide a structural account for why the group remains all-male. It accomplishes this by demonstrating that the importation of a European discourse of avant-garde activity, which assumed masculine social privilege and public activity, effectively excluded women artists from membership.

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by Linda Levy Peck, Adrianna E. Bakos

'A fair field and no favour'

by Katy Deepwell

by Bénédicte Miyamoto, Marie Ruiz, Amelia Jones

Eine Anthologie

by Krzysztof Dybciak, Josef Bujnoch, Karl Dedecius, Armin Droß, Krzysztof Dybciak

by Wassily Kandinsky

Eccentric experience

by Marsha Meskimmon, Amelia Jones, Dorothy C. Rowe, Dorothy Rowe, Marsha Meskimmon

Anticolonialism in the global sixties

by Zeina Maasri, Cathy Bergin, Francesca Burke

by Catherine E. King

by Piero Garofalo, Elizabeth Leake, Dana Renga

Following a migration category

by Sarah Kunz

Paris, c.1925–35

by Julia Kelly, Marsha Meskimmon, Shearer West, Tim Barringer

by David Baguley

Filmmaking for fieldwork in practice

by Andy Lawrence, Martha-Cecilia Dietrich

by Annika Lindberg

New perspectives on visual and industrial cultures in nineteenth-century Britain

by Christopher Breward, Kate Nichols, Bill Sherman, Rebecca Wade, Gabriel Williams

Hermann Broch/Annemarie Meier-Graefe. Briefwechsel 1950–51

by Hermann Broch, Annemarie Meier-Graefe, Paul Michael Lützeler

On literature in art

by Chloe Julius, Michael Green, Matthew Holman

1850–1939

by Edited by Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich

Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism

by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon

The unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism

by Leah Modigliani

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