Product Description: The tender roots of Modern Art can be seen in the wild sea paintings of Turner, as early as the mid 19th Century, but it took the Impressionists and the Pre-Raphaelites to break the elite classical mode, until the final blows were dealt in the early 1900s by Kandinsky, Klee and Picasso...read more

Product Description: This richly illustrated study is the first on the subject and complements the first ever Gordine Retrospective Exhibition, as well as the wide-ranging monograph Dora Gordine: Artist, Sculptor, Designer. It includes more than forty of Gordine’s finest drawings, the majority of which have never before been reproduced, as well as a selection of works by famous contemporaries such as Aristide Maillol, Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore...read more

Product Description: This book offers a unique opportunity to explore contemporary Arab art by women. The volume collects 18 Arab women artists from around the world to challenge western stereotyping of women's role in Arab society. The contributors and artists illustrate how women experience and question their lives as integral to the Arab diaspora...read more

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Product Description: Madonna continues to excite debate among students of cultural and media studies - both as an icon of contemporary culture and as an ideological conundrum for feminists. This symposium of essays places Madonna's career in the context of chart and dance music of the 1980s and 1990s as well as show business as a whole, before examining the wider issues of sexuality and control raised by her work in music, video and film...read more