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Long considered the embodiment of national resilience and fraternal loyalty in the wake of World War I, Fernand Léger's art overshadows a far less heroic story, one that prompts a demythification of his legendary identification with the working class and provokes important questions about psychic trauma. This book draws on Léger's wartime letters to reassess his work and present an entirely new perspective on how the artist's war experience informed his art.Maureen G. Shanahan traces the legacy of war and historical trauma in Léger's work and uses the crisis of masculinity generated by World War I to explain the contradictions and paradoxes of his art and writing during and after the war. Drawing upon psychoanalytic and gender theory as well as memory studies, Shanahan historicizes the work of Léger and the Purist art movement within the psychiatric discourse of the era and anxieties about neurasthenia, which was associated with German Expressionism, Dada, and New Objectivity artists. Notably, Shanahan dismantles Léger's machine aesthetic as a utopian and regenerative investment and explores the significance of Léger's collectives of soldiers, female nudes, mass-produced objects, divers, and cyclists--his "machine men"--as vehicles for displacing trauma and disavowing loss.Informed by extensive archival research, this volume turns Léger into a case study of Cubism's most radical moment, machine modernism's relationship to war trauma, and aesthetic positions between Socialist Realism and geometric abstraction.

Explores the foundation and development of Marrakesh during the Almoravid and Almohad dynasties, drawing upon recent work in archaeology, urban studies, and landscape preservation.

Examines the most extensively illustrated codex of the Vitae patrum, The Lives of the Desert Fathers, to show how images made the practices of the desert saints compelling and accessible to fourteenth-century city dwellers who were just beginning to cultivate the habit of private devotion on a wide scale.

Examines the United States Information Agency's program of photographic diplomacy with Africa, locating photography at the intersection of African decolonization, racial conflict in the United States, and the cultural Cold War.

An autobiography of artist Audrey Flack, from her early days as a young woman artist in the midst of the male-dominated Abstract Expressionist movement to the peak of her career as a pioneer of Photorealism.

Explores the life and career of Rahel Szalit (1888-1942), among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin.

A comprehensive reexamination of the history of the temple site in the sacred Sumerian city of Girsu through modern excavations and the reevaluation of earlier archaeological discoveries. Examines the role of rescue and preventative excavations as a way to stabilize and preserve exposed but inadequately recorded archaeological sites.

This is a collection of eight autobiographical visual essays that explore the joys and pains of living in a hypercomplex and uncertain world. In her sprawling and colorful style, Sarah Firth pursues some of life's deepest philosophical questions about happiness, hope, love, sex, death, truth, reality, and the definition of "self." She weaves together a mix of great ideas and silly ones deriving not only from her own lived experience, but also from her daydreams, pop culture memes, and the teachings of science, philosophy, and history. Her musings ultimately lead her to consider how to live more joyously in a troubling world, and how to be more compassionate towards oneself, others, and the planet.

A portrayal in graphic novel format of the author's battle with auditory hallucinations, depicted as a monster, and his journey to understand and cope with his illness.

A graphic novel adaptation of Pascal Boyer's writings that examine religion through the lenses of cognitive science, anthropology, psychology, and evolutionary biology.

Originally published in French in 2018 and winner of the Prix Albert Londres, this unique graphic novel provides a glimpse of the devastating changes inflicted on Iraq as told through 1000 tweets and poignant illustrations. During the summer of 2016, distrought and disappointed by how Iraq is described in the media, French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani posted over 1000 tweets in which he told the world about his Iraq. Feurat grew up in Paris, but spent many childhood summers in an Iraq that he watched fall apart under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. As an adult, he reports from an Iraq under American occupation, and discovers the sounds and silences of war. The Flavors of Iraq is an intimate and discerning look at a battered country from first a child's, then a young man's perspective. Together with Léonard Cohen's superb illustrations, the result is a poetic and powerful story of a different Iraq.

What is a Nittany Lion? With the help of colourful illustrations, this work uncovers the fascinating and colourful history behind the Penn State icon. Elements of the tale include the story of the Original Nittany Lion, the elusive mountain lion that once roamed the hills of Pennsylvania.