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(P/B) HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE I
Various definitions can be offered both for the term "Hellenistic" and for the phrase "Hellenistic period" or "culture," as the case may be. Each one can be justified on etymological, historical, or scholarly grounds, and no consensus is likely to be reached in the near future. Basically and empirically, it is agreed that Hellenistic means "later," or "diluted" and "expanded" Greek, as contrasted with the allegedly pure and more restrictive "Hellenic." But then all accord ceases. The historian of religions thinks of the Hellenistic phase i...
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(P/B) A GUIDE TO SCENES OF DAILY LIFE ON ATHENIAN VASES
Painted vases are the richest and most complex images that remain from ancient Greece. Over the past decades, a great deal has been written on ancient art that portrays myths and rituals. Less has been written on scenes of daily life, and what has been written has been tucked away in hard-to-find books and journals. A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases synthesizes this material and expands it: it is the first comprehensive volume to present visual representations of everything from pets and children's games to drunken revelry ...
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(P/B) HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE II
The second century B.C. is one of the most prolific periods in the production of Greek and Hellenistic art, but it is a period extremely vexing to scholars. Very few of the works traditionally cited as examples of this century's art can be dated with certainty, and those that plausibly belong to it reflect no obvious general trends in function, iconography, or style. In Hellenistic Sculpture II: The Styles of ca. 200-100 B.C., the second of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway's three volumes on Hellenistic sculpture, she takes on the challenge of in...
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(P/B) EROTIC UTOPIA
The first generation of Russian modernists experienced a profound sense of anxiety. What made them unique was their utopian prescription for overcoming the inevitability of decline and death. They theorized their defiance of death by suggesting the immortalization of the body through the power of erotic love. Matich suggests that same-sex desire underlay their most radical proposal of abolishing the traditional procreative family in favor of erotically induced abstinence. She shows how a brilliant group of Russian writers - among them the ...
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(P/B) THE WORLD OF ROMAN COSTUME

(P/B) SOPHOCLES' PHILOCTETES AND THE GREAT SOUL ROBBERY
Norman Austin brings both keen insight and a life-long engagement with his subject to this study of Sophocles' late tragedy Philoctetes, a fifth-century bce play adapted from an infamous incident during the Trojan War. In Sophocles' "Philoctetes" and the Great Soul Robbery, Austin examines the rich layers of text as well as context, situating the play within the historical and political milieu of the eclipse of Athenian power. He presents a study at once of interest to the classical scholar and accessible to the general reader. Though the ...
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(P/B) THE LAST LAUGH
Q: What's the difference between Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett? A: About three hours. Widely publicized in mass media worldwide, high-profile tragedies and celebrity scandals-the untimely deaths of Michael Jackson and Princess Diana, the embarrassing affairs of Tiger Woods and President Clinton, the 9/11 attacks or the Challenger space shuttle explosion-often provoke nervous laughter and black humor. If in the past this snarky folklore may have been shared among friends and uttered behind closed doors, today the Internet's ubiquity a...
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(P/B) A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH NEW WAVE CINEMA
Rather than an encyclopedic account of who is or is not in the nouvelle vague, this history investigates the conditions that gave rise to the phenomenon and the definitions that resulted. I have chosen to discuss films that were integral to the fervor of the New Wave, especially those that shared a role in revitalizing film language as well as motivating further experiments in film. The bulk of the book remains organized around directors, since this was an auteur-centered era, with individual directors struggling hard to devise their own p...
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(P/B) FRAGMENTS OF DEATH, FABLES OF IDENTITY
The death of her grandfather sets Neni Panourgia and her readers on a path through the rituals of mourning and memory in modern urban Greece. Blending emotional richness and intellectual rigor, the anthropologist returns home in this exploration of kinship and identity within her own family and native city of Athens. What emerges is not only a new anthropological view of contemporary Greek culture, but also a reflective consideration of the self and subject. Following men and women grappling with questions of mortality, Panourgia moves thr...
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(P/B) DANCING DESIRES
What happens to the writing of dance history when issues of sexuality and sexual identity are made central? What happens to queer theory, and to other theoretical constructs of gender and sexuality, when a dancing body takes center stage? Dancing Desires asks these questions, exploring the relationship between dancing bodies and sexual identity on the concert stage, in nightclubs, in film, in the courts, and on the streets. From Nijinsky's balletic prowess to Charlie Chaplin's lightfooted "Little Tramp," from lesbian go-go dancers to the s...
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(P/B) THEORIES OF ART TODAY
What is art? The contributors to Theories of Art Today address the assertion that the term "art" no longer holds meaning. They explore a variety of issues including: aesthetic and institutional theories of art, feminist perspectives on the philosophy of art, the question of whether art is a cluster concept, and the relevance of tribal art to philosophical aesthetics. Contributors to this book include such distinguished philosophers and historians as Arthur Danto, Joseph Margolis, and George Dickie.(from the publisher)...
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(P/B) CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE WEST
"Twelve essays dealing with many aspects of one of the most important periods in the history of contacts between Eastern and Western Christianity." --The Journal of Religion. Deno John Geanakoplos demonstrates the fusion of Byzantine and Latin cultural and ecclesiastical relations in the Renaissance. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE III
This is the final volume in Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway's series of books covering the entire range of Greek sculpture, from its inception to its virtual end as it merged into the production of the Roman Imperial world. Volume III discusses sculptural works, both architectural and free-standing, from approximately 100 B.C. to the Battle of Actium (31 B.C.), which removed from power the last Hellenistic ruler. Although some monuments may belong to the years just before or just after this timespan, Ridgway's aim is to concentrate on works plau...
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(P/B) TURKISH MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES: FROM THE OTTOMAN

(P/B) FESTIVALS OF ATTICA
The festivals of the Athenian sacred calendar constitute a vital key to classical Greek culture and religion. Erika Simon sets out here to explicate those complex and often obscure festivals. By careful marshaling of a variety of proofs from literary, historical, and archaeological sources, she is able to justify some startling conclusions and achieve a comprehensive and truly original synthesis that clarifies, as never before, the probable origins and meanings of the Attic cults. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE WEDDING IN ANCIENT ATHENS
This enjoyable and innovative book reconstructs the stages of the ancient Greek wedding ceremony using a long-neglected source of information: vase paintings from the sixth through fourth centuries B.C. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) WOMBS AND ALIEN SPIRITS
Based on nearly two years of ethnographic fieldwork in a Muslim village in northern Sudan, Wombs and Alien Spirits explores the zar cult, the most widely practiced traditional healing cult in Africa. Adherents of the cult are usually women with marital or fertility problems, who are possessed by spirits very different from their own proscribed roles as mothers. Through the woman, the spirit makes demands upon her husband and family and makes provocative comments on village issues, such as the increasing influence of formal Islam or encroac...
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(P/B) ROMANS AND BARBARIANS
The Fall of the Roman Empire - from the barbarian's perspective. Available for the first time in paperback, this classic work by renowned historian E.A. Thompson examines the fall of the Roman Empire in the West from the barbarian perspective and experience. Standard interpretations of the decline of the Roman Empire in the West view the barbarian invaders as destroyers. Thompson, however, argues that the relationship between the invaders and the invaded was far more complex than the common interpretation would suggest. This edition includ...
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(P/B) DEPTH OF FIELD - STANLEY KUBRICK FILM AND THE USES OF

(P/B) BEFORE, BETWEEN, AND BEYOND
Τhe definitive collection of writings and reviews. Sally Banes has been a preeminent critic and scholar of American contemporary dance, and Before, Between, and Beyond spans more than thirty years of her prolific work. Beginning with her first published review and including previously unpublished papers, this collection presents some of her finest works on dance and other artistic forms. It concludes with her most recent research on George Balanchine's dancing elephants. In each piece, Banes's detailed eye and sensual prose strike a rare b...
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