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"Womanist approaches to the study of religion and society have contributed much to our understanding of Black religious life, activism, and women's liberation. Deeper Shades of Purple explores the achievements of this movement over the past two decades and evaluates some of the leading voices and different perspectives within this burgeoning field. Deeper Shades of Purple brings together a who's who of scholars in the study of Black wome ..."
"Religious StudiesOver the last thirty years African American voices and perspectives have become essential to the study of the various theological disciplines. Writing out of their particular position in the North American context, African American thinkers have contributed significantly to biblical studies, theology, church history, ethics, sociology of religion, ..."
"Opening on Thanksgiving Day 1929, only weeks after the crash of Wall Street and the birth of the Great Depression, Clinton's Hotel Calmez stood as a beacon for western Oklahoma for more than 70 years. Known far and wide as the best hotel on historic Route 66 between Oklahoma City and Amarillo, the larger-than-life green neon sign atop Hotel Calmez attracted motorists from miles around traveling the iconic "Mother Road.""
"Gathering key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies, Representing the Nation: A reader explores the role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation. With an international perspective focusing on the USA, France, Australia, the UK and India, leading figures and authors, including Tony Bennet, Ralph Samuel and Carol Duncan examine the way the pa ..."
Civilizing Rituals Inside Public Art Museums by CarolDuncan 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-203-97871-9, ISBN: 0-203-97871-4
"She examines specific musuem rituals in the US, Britain and France including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musuem of Modern Art, the National Gallery in London, the Louvre and several donor memorials including the Frick Collection and ..."
Civilizing Rituals Inside Public Art Museums (Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society) by CarolDuncan Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Routledge Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-415-07011-9, ISBN: 0-415-07011-2
"Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community. Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants. Civilizing Rituals is ideal reading for ..."
Civilizing Rituals(1st Edition) Inside Public Art Museums (Re Visions: Critical Studies in the History and Theory of Art) by CarolDuncan Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-07012-6, ISBN: 0-415-07012-0
"This is a paperback first published in 1995 by Routledge, 29 West 35th St., New York, NY 10001. Illustrated with over 50 black and white photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community. Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art ..."
The Aesthetics of Power Essays in the Critical History of Art (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) by CarolDuncan Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 1993 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-42044-0, ISBN: 0-521-42044-X
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PURSUIT PLEASURE ROCOC (Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts) by CarolDuncan Hardcover, 157 Pages, Published 1976 by Education-Garla ISBN-13: 978-0-8240-1985-3, ISBN: 0-8240-1985-7
"French Studies, Art History"
The Aesthetics of Power(1st Edition) Essays in the Critical History of Art (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) by CarolDuncan Paperback, 230 Pages, Published 1993 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-42187-4, ISBN: 0-521-42187-X
"The Aesthetics of Power gathers together the key articles and essays by Carol Duncan, one of the pioneers of a new socio-political approach to art history and criticism, and one of the strongest feminist voices to emerge in the 1970s and '80s. These essays, many of which have become classics, explore a wide variety of subjects: images of mothers, fathers, and children in eighteenth century art and culture; the image of the female nude i ..."
Civilizing Rituals Inside Public Art Museums by CarolDuncan Ebook, 192 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-91311-4, ISBN: 1-134-91311-7
"17 For the Getty Museum, see the J. Paul Getty Museum, Handbook of the
Collections, Malibu, Cal., 1986 and Guide to the Villa and Its Gardens, Malibu,
Cal., 1988; Joseph Morgenstern, "Getty's Little Palace in Malibu," ArtNews, March
, 1977, pp. 72-5; and Robert Lenzner, The Great Getty: The Life and Loves off.
Paul Getty - Richest Man in the World, New York, Crown Publishers, 1985, pp.
191-5. For an analysis of the original villa's ..."
Civilizing Rituals Inside Public Art Museums by CarolDuncan Ebook, 192 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-91312-1, ISBN: 1-134-91312-5
"Dulwich Picture Gallery, too, bears more than a residual trace of class
pretentiousness in that it appropriates for its middle-class donors two features of
aristocratic country houses, the art gallery and the mausoleum. Its site on the
grounds of ..."
"CAPÍTULO La era tecnológica De acuerdo con las opiniones expresadas, entre
otros, por analistas sociales como Alvin Toffler, nos encontramos ante la Tercera
ola' de la civilización. La primera fue la que generalizó la agricultura como forma
de subsistencia humana, en el Neolítico. La segunda fue la revolución de la
escritura. La imprenta supuso la generalización de la cultura, de los libros,
gracias al abaratamiento de la edición, ..."