LIBROS DEL AUTOR: julia skelly

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  • Skin Crafts
    Julia Skelly
    Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who employ craft materials in works that address historical and contemporary violence. These artists are deliberately embracing the fragility of textiles and ceramics to evoke the vulnerability of human skin and - in so doing - are demanding visceral responses from viewers. Drawing on a range of theories including affe...
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    53,02 €

  • The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600-2010
    Julia Skelly
    Although the idea of excess has often been used to degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also been used as a strategy for self-fashioning and empowerment, particularly by women and queer subjects. This volume examines a range of material - including ceramics, paintings, caricatures, interior design and theatrical performances - in various global ...
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    91,76 €

  • Radical Decadence
    Julia Skelly
    This pioneering book explores the notion of ’radical decadence’ as concept, aesthetic and lived experience, and as an analytical framework for the study of contemporary feminist textile art. Gendered discourses of decadence that perpetuate anxieties about women’s power, consumption and pleasure are deconstructed through images of drug use, female sexuality and ’excessive’ livin...
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    47,59 €

  • Addiction and British Visual Culture, 1751-1919
    Julia Skelly
    Highly innovative and long overdue, this study analyzes the visual culture of addiction produced in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The book examines well-known images such as William Hogarth’s Gin Lane (1751), as well as lesser-known artworks including Alfred Priest’s painting Cocaine (1919), in order to demonstrate how visual culture was both informed by, and cont...
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    107,28 €

  • No Strangers to Beauty - Black Women Artists and the Hottentot Venus
    Julia Skelly
    Saartje Baartman (c.1788-1815/16) was a black South African woman who became known as the Hottentot Venus when she was exhibited in London and Paris because of her protruding buttocks. This book examines two very different types of representations of Baartman. The first chapter looks critically at images that were produced during Baartman’s lifetime, focusing primarily on carto...
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    60,25 €