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Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation ...

Art - 328 pages
The news media have given us potent demonstrations of the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses this ambiguity as a ...
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Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bône, 1870-1920

David Prochaska - History - 2002 - 356 pages
This study is based on research in the former Bône municipal archives, generally barred to researchers since 1962. Prochaska concentrates on the formative decades of settler ...
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Genealogies of Orientalism: History, Theory, Politics

Edmund Burke, David Prochaska - History - 2008 - 468 pages
Orientalism, as explored by Edward Said in 1978, was a far more complex phenomenon than many suspected, being homogenous along the lines of neither culture nor time. Instead ...
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Encounters with the 30s

Jordana Mendelson - Art, Modern - 2012 - 436 pages
Preceded by the heroic modernism of the 1920s and abruptly curtailed by World War II, the heterogeneous art movements of the 1930s have been comparatively neglected as ...
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Lipchitz and the Avant-garde: From Paris to New York

Jacques Lipchitz, Jonathan David Fineberg - Art, Primitive - 2001 - 160 pages
Utilizing works from museums across North America, Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde traces the path of the pioneering sculptor Jacques Lipchitz from his birthplace in Lithuania to ...
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Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists

David O'Brien, David Prochaska - Architecture - 2004 - 116 pages
The artists in this exhibition come from the region stretching from Egypt to Pakistan, but they have lived must of their lives in Europe or the United States. We have chosen to ...
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