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Mary Magdalene: A Visual History

From faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalene's many complex roles in Ch...

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The Language of the Face: Stories of Its Uniquely Expressive Features

A broad and riveting cultural history of physiognomy, exploring how the desire to divine deeper mean...

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The Expressive Instinct: How Imagination and Creative Works Help Us Survive and Thrive

Self-expression is a fundamental human drive. The need for self-expression can occur through many me...

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Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces

What happens when extraordinary creative spirits—musicians, poets, critics, and scholars, as well as...

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Art’s Properties

In this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the nineteenth to the twenty-first...

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The 12-Hour Art Expert: Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces

"Brimming with examples from across the artistic spectrum, this is the perfect primer to hook future...

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Culture

One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamati...

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Bohemians: A Very Short Introduction

The Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the n...

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The Science of Music: How Technology has Shaped the Evolution of an Artform

Music is shaped by the science of sound. How can music – an artform – have anything to do with scie...

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Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces

Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn’t exist. Who was this titan of world culture? Thro...

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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

The bestselling cult classic that offers a roadmap to overcoming the daily obstacles of a creative l...

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John Craxton: A Life of Gifts

Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922–200...

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Architecture: A History in 100 Buildings

This stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architectur...

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How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone

How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone provides the tools to understand and enjoy works of art. Debu...

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Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the pos...

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