Nicholas Thomas is the director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge and the author of many books.
20 Ebooks de Thomas Nicholas Thomas
Mullin Molly H. Mullin: Culture in the Marketplace
In the early twentieth century, a group of elite East coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. In Culture in the Marketplace …
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Beaulieu Jill Beaulieu & Roberts Mary Roberts: Orientalism’s Interlocutors
Until now, Orientalist art-exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars-has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often …
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€33.35
Myers Fred R. Myers: Painting Culture
Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, …
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€40.02
Pinney Christopher Pinney & Peterson Nicolas Peterson: Photography’s Other Histories
Moving the critical debate about photography away from its current Euro-American center of gravity, Photography’s Other Histories breaks with the notion that photographic history is best seen as the …
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€34.90
Harney Elizabeth Harney: In Senghor’s Shadow
In Senghor’s Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Leopold Sedar Senghor, Senegal’s first …
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€37.38
Lydon Jane Lydon: Eye Contact
An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk …
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€36.26
Anthes Bill Anthes: Native Moderns
Between 1940 and 1960, many Native American artists made bold departures from what was considered the traditional style of Indian painting. They drew on European and other non-Native American …
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€35.95
Thompson Krista A. Thompson: Eye for the Tropics
Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to …
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€38.58
Jain Kajri Jain: Gods in the Bazaar
Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as "calendar art" or "bazaar art, " the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on …
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Roberts Mary Roberts: Intimate Outsiders
Until now, the notion of a cross-cultural dialogue has not figured in the analysis of harem paintings, largely because the Western fantasy of the harem has been seen as the archetype for Western …
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€33.62
Strassler Karen Strassler: Refracted Visions
A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses …
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€38.50
Machida Margo Machida: Unsettled Visions
In Unsettled Visions, the activist, curator, and scholar Margo Machida presents a pioneering, in-depth exploration of contemporary Asian American visual art. Machida focuses on works produced during …
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€38.47
Morris Rosalind C. Morris: Photographies East
Introducing Photographies East, Rosalind C. Morris notes that although the camera is now a taken-for-granted element of everyday life in most parts of the world, it is difficult to appreciate …
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Hutchinson Elizabeth Hutchinson: Indian Craze
In the early twentieth century, Native American baskets, blankets, and bowls could be purchased from department stores, "Indian stores, " dealers, and the U.S. government’s Indian schools. …
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Brown Rebecca M. Brown: Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980
Following India’s independence in 1947, Indian artists creating modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an "Indianness" representative of their newly independent nation, while …
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€33.52
Edwards Elizabeth Edwards: Camera as Historian
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the …
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€38.72
Thomas Nicholas Thomas: Return of Curiosity
The Spy Museum, the Vacuum Cleaner Museum, the National Mustard Museum-not to mention the Art Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Getty Center: museums have never been more robust, curating …
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€24.87
Cole Anna Cole & Douglas Bronwen Douglas: Tattoo
Whether fully adorning a biker’s arms or nestled cutely, and discretely, above one’s ankle, tattoos are a commonplace part of modern fashion and expression. But as modern as this permanent accessory …
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Nicholas Thomas: Voyagers
The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled.
»Takes readers on a narrative odyssey»
Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year
»Highlights a dizzying …
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