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This catalog offers a retrospective of Gauguin's entire artistic career, beginning with his early impressionist works through to his final masterpieces painted on the Marquesas Islands, where Gauguin was inspired to create artworks that are among the most vivid in the history of painting. "Gauguin had clearly decided to violate social norms, destroy consecrated artistic standards and create a scandal wherever he went, and he was successful. He...

A fifth edition of this classic textbook, revised and updated throughout.

Embraces many aspects of the nineteenth century art history attention to issues of class and gender, reception and spectatorship, racism and Eurocentrism, popular and elite culture while recovering the remarkable vitality, salience and subversiveness of the era's best art. This title includes a chapter on Photography, Modernity and Art.

Rich in ideas and illustrations...of interest to scholars and art enthusiasts alike." Library Journal

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By identifying the pathos formula at work in the Abu Ghraib images, and by explaining how this insidious form of visual propaganda has been resisted, the author points the way towards a more effective use of political images in the war against the war on terror.

A subtle yet uncompromising analysis of the iconic photographs of torture from the prison at Abu Ghraib. Now in paperback.

Gauguin's Skirt is about contemporary Tahitians and a long-dead French painter, sex today and sex in the late nineteenth century, and colonialism new and old. Written on the boundary between art history and anthropology, it enters the domains of biography and mystery.Gauguin went to Tahiti in search of an exotic paradise. What he found was a French colony divided by race, sex, and class. Gauguin's works depict Tahitians at labor and leisure, a...