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In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

The South Korean Film Industry

Edited by Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin, and Junhyung Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Art, Art History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A multifaceted exploration of the South Korean film industry

Not Straight from Germany

Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld

Edited by Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette Timm, and Rainer Herrn
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, German Studies, Psychology, Art
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present

Portraits of Violence

War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement

By Suzannah Biernoff
Subjects: Art, Disability Studies, History, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Investigates the artistic, medical, and journalistic responses to facial injury in WWI

Beyond the Bauhaus

Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33

By Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reclaims the essential role that the city of Breslau played in the origins of aesthetic modernism in the Weimar era

Alienation Effects

Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91

By Branislav Jakovljevic
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, History, European History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Examines the interplay of artistic, political, and economic performance in the former Yugoslavia and reveals their inseparability

Beyond Berlin

Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past

Edited by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld & Paul B. Jaskot
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, European History, Jewish Studies, Art, Architecture
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A compelling exploration of the myriad ways in which German cities have confronted their Nazi pasts

The Real and the Sacred

Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

By Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, History, European History, Religion, Art, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, American Literature

A cultural history of representations of Jesus in nineteenth-century European and American fiction and visual art

Nothing Happened

Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide

By Darcy Buerkle
Subjects: Art, Art History, Cultural Studies, History
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

A close look at Charlotte Salomon's fantastical autobiography Life? or Theater? and the way that German social history has omitted the stories of German Jewish women and suicide

Speaking Ruins

Piranesi, Architects and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome

By John Pinto
Subjects: Art, Architecture, History, European History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

A study of Piranesi's presentation of classical Roman architecture, through drawings and etchings

Architecture and Modern Literature

By David Anton Spurr
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, European Studies

Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era

Baroque Horrors

Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

By David Castillo
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art, Art History, History, Intellectual History

Exploring the historical roots of horror in the modern age

The New Woman International

Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s

Edited by Elizabeth Otto & Vanessa Rocco
Subjects: Art, Photography, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Media Studies, New Media, German Studies

An international picture of New Woman in film and photography

Building Romanticism

Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Nicole Reynolds
Subjects: History, European History, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature

A study of the importance of architecture in Romanticism

Topographies of Class

Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin

By Sabine Hake
Subjects: German Studies, Art, Architecture, History, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural architecture of Weimar Berlin

The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors

A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art

By Christine Mitchell Havelock
Subjects: Classical Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Art, Architecture, History

A revealing survey of Aphrodite

The Culture of San Sepolcro during the Youth of Piero della Francesca

By James R. Banker
Subjects: Art, Architecture, History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

A portrait of the artist as a young man, an examination of the influence of his hometown

Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity

Clocks of Late Imperial China

By Catherine Mary Pagani
Subjects: Asian Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Art, Architecture

An exploration of the important role played by elaborate clockwork in relations between China and Europe from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries

Amenhotep III

Perspectives on His Reign

By David O'Connor
Edited by Eric H. Cline
Subjects: History, Classical Studies, Art, Architecture

A collection examining the roots of heresy on the Nile

Shifting Memories

The Nazi Past in the New Germany

By Klaus Neumann
Subjects: History, German Studies, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A long look at how contemporary Germany is remembering the Holocaust

The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture

Edited by George Bornstein & Theresa Lynn Tinkle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Literary Criticism and Theory, History, Art, Architecture
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Crystallizes advanced research on the "meanings" that are created by a work's physical construction

The Cult of Kasuga Seen Through Its Art

By Susan Tyler
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Art, Photography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A detailed and animating study of the syncretic cult of Kasuga Shrine at its height in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries

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