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Discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Paul Cezanne. This book proposes a way of reading Cezanne's biography as a form of art criticism. It also proposes a reading of Cezanne's images of bathers that accounts for their strangenesses and for the pleasures they produce.

In 1878, the author Marius Roux, a noted friend of Emile Zola and Paul Cezanne, published "La proie et l'ombre", which offers an insight into the thoughts and lives of the Impressionists. This book discusses the effects of a burgeoning capitalist economy on the artistic practices of the period.

Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the leading artists of the early twentieth century, to be ranked alongside such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, and Pollock in his contributions to Modernist painting. This book advances an understanding of Miro's enterprise in 1920s and of the important works of his career.

Uses the writing of Freud, Lacan, the Surrealists, and Roland Barthes to elaborate a theory of art beyond the pleasure principle. Lacan was in close contact with the Surrealists and, early in his career, exchanged ideas with Dali. This book offers a reading of Dali's "paranoiac-critical" tour de force, "The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus".

Our view of modernism in the arts has been shaped by the prominence of painting and, in particular, by a succession of painters working in Paris - from Courbet and Manet to the Cubists. This title offers a singular critical voice challenging us to think differently about modernism.

During the 1930s, American artists, such as Ben Shahn, developed a mode of representation generally known as Social Realism. Presenting an assessment of Social Realism, this book contends that the radical, "realistic" art of the Americas during the 1930s was shaped as much by hemispheric exchange as by emulation of the European avant-garde.

Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century.

Examines postcards as images that are carriers of text, and textual correspondence that circulate images across boundaries of class, gender, nationality and race. Discusses issues concerning the concrete practices of production, consumption, collection and appropriation.