In Western culture the female nude, more than any other subject, represents "art". The framed image of a female body is an icon for Western culture. This book brings together analysis of the historical tradition of the female nude and discussion of…

This collection brings together some of the important minds in both contemporary art history and theory, and law and legal history. The result is a discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image. The essays draw on the cr…

This collection of essays concentrates on the work of Walter Benjamin. Topics covered include: the question of historical understanding versus historicism; Benjamin and the sources of Judaism; feminism and cultural analysis; and images in Benjamin's…

A close look at the work, relationship, and shared influences of two masterful 20th-century artists “The camera,” said Orson Welles, “is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.” It was the camera and the circ…

Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at film, television, and commercial advertisements as well as more traditional media such as painting, The Tiger in the Smoke provides an unprecedented analysis of the art and culture of post-war Brita…

Anyone who examines the history of Western art must be struck by the prevalence of images of the female body. More than any other subject, the female nude connotes `art'. The framed image of a female body, hung on the walls of an art gallery, is an…