Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art 9780691049144

Psychopolitics of Speech: Uncivil Discourse and the Excess of Desire 9783839439197

The human capacity for speech is forever celebrated as evidence of its innate civility. Why, then, is public discourse o

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The Giallo Canvas: Art, Excess and Horror Cinema 9781476640761

Beloved among cult horror devotees for its signature excesses of sex and violence, Italian giallo cinema is marked by sw

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Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment 9781478012634

Analyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Jillian Hernandez exami

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Prohibition: The Era of Excess

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Studies Violence Mimesis and Culture : Genesis of Desire 9780870138768, 2009015649

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The love of learning and the desire for God: a study of monastic culture 9780823204076

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Empire, Celebrity and Excess: King Farouk of Egypt and British Culture 1936-1965 9781350124592, 9781350199293, 9781350124608

King Farouk of Egypt was known for his extravagant lifestyle and colourful private life, immortalised in the newspaper g

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The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture 9780226620145

More than any other decade, the sixties capture our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immedi

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Margins of Excess 9789082465549

In Margins of Excess the notion of how personal imagination conflicts with generally accepted beliefs is expressed throu

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Painting in Excess: Kyiv's Art Revival, 1985-1993 9781978830783

The upheavals of glasnost and perestroika followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union remarkably transformed the art sc

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