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Postcards

Penn State University
Postcards
Products of modernity, postcards continue to provoke comment today as in the nineteenth century. With their unique status as interdisciplinary image-objects that cross lines of geography, economy, and gender, postcards epitomize the complex history of visual culture. These often sweet, nostalgic, inexpensive mementos of commercial culture have also been carriers, even instigators, of colonialist exoticism and political propaganda. They straddl...

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Rethinking Arshile Gorky

Theriault, Kim S.
Rethinking Arshile Gorky
Often referred to as the last Surrealist and first Abstract Expressionist, Arshile Gorky (c. 19001948) appears as an interstice within art historys linear progression. Gorky embraced dream imagery in the tradition of the Surrealists, used all-over patterning before Jackson Pollock, promoted disembodied color before Mark Rothko, exploited the physicality of paint before Willem de Kooning, and anticipated stain painting. His lifeescaping the Arm...

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Contract, Culture, and Citizenship

Button, Mark E. (University of Utah)
Contract, Culture, and Citizenship
The idea of the social contract has typically been seen in political theory as legitimating the exercise of governmental power and creating the moral basis for political order. Mark Button wants to draw our attention to an equally crucial, but seldom emphasized, role for the social contract: its educative function in cultivating the habits and virtues that citizens need to fulfill the promises that the social contract represents. In this book,...

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