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This text, inspired by Wittgenstein as well as feminist and critical race theory, shines a light on the background to discrimination and violence in society, in order to show that we all share more responsibility for the persistence of oppressive social practices than we commonly suppose.

Is there a single right interpretation for such cultural phenomena as works of literature, visual artworks, works of music, the self and legal and sacred texts? These essays pursue different answers to this question by examing the nature of interpretation and its objects and ideals.

The great poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was also an extremely influential art critic. "High Art" relates the philosophical issues posed by Baudelaire's art writing to the theory and practice of modernist and postmodernist painting.

An exploration of the portrait art of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, focusing on his studio practice and his training of students.

A cultural and poetic analysis of the art and science of taxidermy, from sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art.

Covers the Assembly terms from 1757 through 1775, a period that witnessed the French and Indian War, the expansion of Pennsylvania with the addition of Bedford, Northumberland, and Westmoreland counties, the Stamp Act crisis, the development of extra-legal committees, the creation of county militias, and the overthrow of the colonial government.

A history of Union County, Pennsylvania, from its earliest days when Chief Shikellamy was there and when settlers ventured into the frontier area. First published at the time of the nation's bicentennial, it explores the development and growth of the different townships and boroughs.

Explores how the Renaissance artist Hans Holbein the Younger came to develop his mature artistic styles through the key historical contexts framing his work: the controversies of the Reformation and Renaissance debates about rhetoric.

Offers a chronological account of political engagement in works by the early modern Northern European painters Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Frans Snyders. This book examines the ways in which these Netherlandish painters seized on that imagery and creatively transformed it into the materials of art.

Will Barnet has approached painting through sustained exploration of the relationship between abstract, geometric forms and the processes of perception. This book examines the paintings, drawings, and prints Barnet made in the 1960s, the decade when Barnet portrayed his family and renegotiated his commitment to pure abstraction.

Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how images, pictures, and paintings are conceptualized. Issues discussed include concepts such as "image" and "picture" in and outside the West; semiotics; whether images are products of discourse; religious meanings; and the ethics of viewing.

Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard's creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870.

An English translation of Da pintura antiga by the sixteenth-century Portuguese artist Francisco de Hollanda, who was sent to Rome in 1538 by the Portuguese royal family to study art and architecture. Contains a treatise on painting and four dialogues, three featuring Michelangelo.

An inventory of the private possessions of Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, head of the ruling Medici family during the apogee of the Florentine Renaissance.

Studies the propagandistic and political features of five prominent series of frescoes originating in papal Rome in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Discusses the manipulation of historical events for propagandistic purposes, the importance of inscriptions in controlling interpretation, and the reactions of contemporary viewers.

Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, curators, artists, and educators to ask how art is and should be taught. Explores the theories that underwrite art education at all levels, the pertinent history of art education, and the most promising current conceptualizations.

Studies Raphael's images of supernatural phenomena, including apparitions and prophetic visions, within their contemporary artistic and religious contexts. Asks how a fundamentally naturalistic style of painting like that of the Italian Renaissance can accommodate representations of the supernatural without self-contradiction.

Explores the intersections between monarchy, gender, and art through an investigation of the visual and architectural culture of the eighteenth-century Habsburg empress Maria Theresa.

Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century.

This text is a study of the restoration of the Romanesque church of the Madeleine at Vezelay, the first project of the reknowned 19th-century French architect E. E. Viollet-le-Duc. The book looks at the political and architectural implications of the project.

An interdisciplinary reassessment of the creation and reception of religious imagery, and of its place in the devotional practices of Castilian Christians, situated against the broader panorama of Spanish culture in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Explores visual culture and the social history of art through an analysis of French images of nineteenth-century Algeria.

Explores the role of Tuscan culture in the poetic construction of a commonwealth. This book focuses on four works: Brunetto Latini's didactic poem, the "Tesoretto"; an illustrated manuscript of the same; and Simone Martini's "Maesta" and Ambrogio Lorenzetti's "Allegory of Good and Bad Government", both painted for the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena.

In the period, 1870 to 1910, technological and manufacturing advances revolutionized Spain's illustrated press and consequently Europeanized the tastes and the expectations of its elite urban readership. This book examines the ideological impact and the technological transformation of image production in Spanish magazines during the Restoration.

Begins with an investigation of Caravaggio's studio practices. In subsequent chapters, this book discusses the artist's response to the material culture of his day, his use of gesture and expression, and his eroticism and violence, as well as other issues central to the painter's legendary realism. It is useful for students and the general reader.

Siena of the 13th and 14th centuries was one of the great cities of Europe, and its artists were among those who reshaped the nature and place of painting. Maginnis' book asks the fundamental questions about the painters' lives and work and shows how Sienese society shaped them.

John Williams and four other mediaeval scholars challenge conventional wisdom on biblical illustration, and find it to be an enterprise guided in its genesis by the dynamics of a new culture. They argue that illustrated Bibles were shaped by ad hoc decisions resulting in a variety of approaches.

This text examines liturgical manuscripts that members of the Mendoza family commissioned for the cathedral of Toledo. It relates the style, content and function of these manuscripts to the ritual life of the Cathedral and its social and political role in efforts to forge Spanish identity.

How was the female body perceived in the popular culture of late 19th-century Spain? Using an array of images from popular magazines of the day, this text finds that women were typically presented in ways that were reassuring to the emerging bourgeois culture.