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(P/B) Icons and Power
The Mother of God in Byzantium
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0048

The Virgin Mary embodied power rather than maternal tenderness in the Byzantine world. Known as the Mother of God, she became a guarantor of military victory and hence of imperial authority. In this pioneering book, Bissera Pentcheva connects the fusion of Marian cult and imperial rule with the powers assigned to images of this All Holy woman. Drawing upon a wide range of sources and images, from coins and seals to monumental mosaics, Pentcheva demonstrates that a fundamental shift in the Byzantine cult-from relics to icons-took place duri...
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(P/B) THE STRUCTURE OF MODERN CULTURAL THEORY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0039

What is the point of cultural theory? Do we even know what it is? This book is at once an introduction to, and, broadly, a defence of modern cultural theory understood as a particular constellation of inquiry, one that may be all the more important in our postmodern times the more seemingly irrelevant it is to current fashions. Focusing on the work of Theodor Adorno, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault the book argues that in spite of their differences these authors shared particularly "modern" understandings of culture, creativity and hum...
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(H/B) VISUALIZING HOUSEHOLD HEALTH
MEDIEVAL WOMEN, ART, AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE REGIME DU CORPS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0047

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the R?gime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential, with nearly seventy surviving copies made over the next two hundred years and translations in at least four other languages. In Visualizing Household Health, art historian Jennifer Borland uses the R?gime to show how gender and health care converged within the medieval household. Visualizing H...
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(Η/Β) MEDITERRANEAN ENCOUNTERS
ARTISTS BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1774-1938
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0046

In this volume, Elisabeth Fraser shows that artists and the works they created in the Mediterranean during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were informed by mutual dependence and reciprocity between European nations and the Ottoman Empire. Her rich exploration of this vibrant cross-cultural exchange challenges the dominant interpretation of European relations with the East during the period, revealing a shared world of fluid and long-sustained interactions. Voyagers to and from the Ottoman Empire documented their journeys...
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(P/B) HUA-YEN BUDDHISM
THE JEWEL NET OF INDRA
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0045

Hua-yen is regarded as the highest form of Buddhism by most modern Japanese and Chinese scholars. This book is a description and analysis of the Chinese form of Buddhism called Hua-yen (or Hwa-yea), Flower Ornament, based largely on one of the more systematic treatises of its third patriarch. Hua-yen Buddhism strongly resembles Whitehead's process philosophy, and has strong implications for modern philosophy and religion. Hua-yen Buddhism explores the philosophical system of Hua-yen in greater detail than does Garma C.C. Chang's The Buddhi...
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(P/B) UNIVERSITIES UNDER DICTATORSHIP
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0044

Dictatorships destroy intellectual freedom, yet universities need it. How, then, can universities function under dictatorships? Are they more a support or a danger for the system? In this volume, leading experts from five countries explore the many dimensions of accommodation and conflict, control and independence, as well as subservience and resistance that characterized the relationship of universities to dictatorial regimes in communist and fascist states during the twentieth century: Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Francoist Spain, Ma...
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(P/B) SAINT AND NATION
SANTIAGO, TERESA OF AVILA, AND PLURAL IDENTITIES IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0043

In early seventeenth-century Spain, the Castilian parliament voted to elevate the newly beatified Teresa of Avila to co-patron saint of Spain alongside the traditional patron, Santiago. Saint and Nation examines Spanish devotion to the cult of saints and the controversy over national patron sainthood to provide an original account of the diverse ways in which the early modern nation was expressed and experienced by monarch and town, center and periphery. By analyzing the dynamic interplay of local and extra-local, royal authority and natio...
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(P/B) THE AESTHETICS OF COMICS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0008

From Gary Larson’s The Far Side to George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using both words and pictures to tell stories, and they use word balloons to represent the speech and thought of depicted characters. Art historians have studied visual artifacts from every culture; cultural historians have recently paid close attention to movies. Yet the comic strip, an art form known to everyone, has not yet been much studied by aestheticians or art historians. This is the first ful...
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(P/B) HUMANISM AND THE URBAN WORLD
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI AND THE RENAISSANCE CITY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0042

In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti's approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well as in his larger body of written work. Past scholars have generally characterized the Italian Renaissance architect and theorist as an enthusiast of the city who envisioned it as a rational, Renaissance ideal. Pearson argues, however...
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(H/B) THE DARK SIDE OF NATURE
SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND THE FANTASTIC IN THE WORK OF ODILON REDON
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0041

A study of Odilon Redon (1840-1916), a French artist admired by the Surrealists as a precursor in their exploration of the irrational....
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(P/B) HEAVEN ON EARTH
ART AND THE CHURCH IN BYZANTIUM
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0009

This easily accessible volume, which grew out of a series of lectures presented at the Smithsonian Institution in 1991, aims to provide a coherent introduction to Byzantine culture with a focus on the interconnected realms of art and religion. The eight participants have revised their lectures into chapters on Byzantine history, theology, icons and icon theory, church architecture, monumental painting, silver church furnishings, illustrated liturgical books, and pilgrimage. In addition to presenting current research on this range of topics...
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(H/B) IDEA OF THE TEMPLE OF PAINTING
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0040

Perhaps the most imaginative writer on art in the sixteenth century, Giovan Paolo Lomazzo was also an ambitious painter, well-informed critic, and sarcastic wit: he proved a lively adversary for Vasari, Dolce, and even Aretino. His greatest contribution to the history of art is his special treatment of expression and, in its more mature form, self-expression. The image of the Temple of Painting embodies all his essential thoughts about art. Housing statues of Michelangelo, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Leonardo, Raphael, Mante...
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(P/B) FRAIL HAPPINESS
AN ESSAY ON ROUSSEAU
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0005

"We are all confronted, at one time or another, with choices as to what sort of life we will lead." So Tzvetan Todorov begins Frail Happiness, an important interpretation of Rousseau, one suffused with Todorov’s own moral seriousness and intellectual depth. While ranging widely through Rousseau’s corpus with skill and scholarly authority Todorov returns, again and again, to the fragile yet persistent hope for human happiness. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) ARTWORKS
MEANING, DEFINITION, VALUE
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0038

What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing debate criticizing, but also explaining what can be learned from, alternative views. His unified philosophy of art, defined in terms of its evolving functions, is used to explain and to justify current interpretive practices and to motivate an investigation of artistic value. Stecker defines art (roughly) as an item that is an artwork at time t i...
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(P/B) THE MODERN CORPORATION AND AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
LAW, POWER AND IDEOLOGY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0037

"This is a valuable contribution to the understanding of the history of the corporation in the United States, and to the legal, political, and social questions bound up with that history. Bowman’s presentation of theoretical issues is lucid, and his own ideas are serious and important. Presenting a lucid grasp of the past, this book raises crucial questions about the present." -Paul Mattick, Jr., International Journal of Political Economy Despite all that has been written about business and its role in American life, contemporary theories...
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(P/B) TEXT AND SUPERTEXT IN IBSEN'S DRAMA
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0036

Brian Johnston's approach to Ibsen, now well known, is unlike any other. Johnston sees Ibsen's twelve realist plays as a single cyclical work, the "realist" method of which hides a much larger poetic intention than has previously been suspected. He believes that the cycle constitutes one of the major works of the European imagination, comparable in scale to Goethe or Dante. And he has shown Ibsen to be the heir to Romantic and Hegelian art and thought, adapting this heritage to the circumstances of his own day.This work demonstrates how th...
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(P/B) THE COLONEL'S COUP AND THE AMERICAN EMBASSY
A DIPLOMAT'S VIEW OF THE BREAKDOWN OF DEMOCRACY IN COLD WAR GREECE
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0034

The so-called Colonels' coup of April 21, 1967, was a major event in the history of the Cold War, ushering in a seven-year period of military rule in Greece. In the wake of the coup, some eight thousand people affiliated with the Communist Party were rounded up, and Greece became yet another country where the fear of Communism led the United States into alliance with a repressive right-wing authoritarian regime. In military coups in some other countries, it is known that the CIA and other agencies of the U.S. government played an active ro...
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(P/B) CARAVAGGIO
THE ART OF REALISM
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0035

The dramatic realism of Caravaggio's art has fascinated viewers since the seventeenth century. Yet no prior monograph presents the thorough investigation of Caravaggio's "realism" ventured in John Varriano's remarkable book. Forgoing the "life and works" format of most earlier monographs, Varriano concentrates on uncovering the principles and practices-the intellect and the imagination- that guided Caravaggio's eye and brush as he made some of the most controversial paintings in the history of art. Caravaggio's irascible personality, liber...
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(P/B) NEIGHBORS AT WAR
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON YUGOSLAV ETHNICITY, CULTURE, AND HISTORY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0023

Before former Yugoslavia was divided by wars, and despite a complex history of previous conflict, its diverse ethnic inhabitants lived side by side and regularly cooperated in daily life. This collection seeks to explain how former neighbors became enemies, with the hope that understanding what drove these peoples apart will help us discover ways for them to again coexist in peace. Contributors analyze political cartoons, the arts, and visual media, and employ psychiatric, legal, historic, and biographic approaches to provide understanding...
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(P/B) THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF POST-STRUCTURALIST ANARCHISM
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3188-0025

The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy, primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and the focus on economic justice as a goal in Marxism. (From the publisher)...
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