"This book seeks to trace through seminal essays by art critics Sally O'Reilly and David Lillington and artists John Stezaker and Ian Monroe. Divided into five themes, Collage is lavishly illustrated with works by both collage 'masters', such as Picasso,...

An innovative and dynamic look at 20-century American art, focusing on its relationship to the nation’s evolving identity and ambitions.How did artists of the twentieth century use their work to respond to their unique personal experiences and moment in...

Product Description Explores the social, political, economic, and cultural atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties and its impact on the development and character of the arts From Library Journal Architecture, sculpture, painting, film, graphic...

This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Closely identified with totalitarianism and...

Iris Zavala argues that Hispanic modernism is an emancipatory narrative of self-representation. Out of Cuba's struggles against Spanish and U.S. colonialism, modernism emerged among the Hispanic intelligentsia as an attempt to create a collective...

In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole.Major work from one of the world’s most...

This fascinating biography--the first in over forty years--of Diego Rivera, the brilliant Mexican artist and revolutionary (and twice-married husband of Frida Kahlo), captures the explosively passionate nature that made Rivera one of this century's most...

"Wolf drew on anthropology, archaeology, history, and geography to mold a magnificent, sweeping, and beautifully written synthesis. With style and deep personal engagement he unraveled the complexity of Mexico and Guatemala's past with its multiple...

Algeria Cuts discusses the figure of woman, both under colonial rule in Algeria and within the postcolonial independent nation-state. It is an interdisciplinary project that spans fine art, film, colonial and legal policy, manifestos, prose fiction, and...

The first comprehensive English-language biography of Pablo Neruda, one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean writer, was born into a poor family in 1904. His love poems would go on to make him a...

The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben’s sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implies for Agamben an archeological vigilance: a persistent form of thinking whose path is to expose, examine, and elaborate that which remains...