Collecting Objects / Excluding People

Collecting Objects / Excluding PeopleCombining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture. In Collecting Objects Excluding People, Lenore Metrick Chen demonstrates an unknown impact of Chinese immigration upon nineteenth century American art and visual culture. The American ideas of "Chineseness" ranged from a negative portrayal to an admiring one and these varied images had an effect on museum art collections and

This original study will be of interest to scholars and general readers interested in social movements

Johnson (1893–1956)

Over the course of 11 years artist Judith Allen-Efstathiou has been drawing the wildflowers growing along an ancient footpath near her home on the Greek island of Kea

but also offers hope for a reconceived pedagogy of social-material writing practice

This chapter starts by discussing the features of small-scale farming

Lorenzo di Francesco Guidetti

and Biblical studies explore the significance of Jameson's work for their diverse fields

Despite decades of international diplomatic efforts

riparian forest buffers link the land and aquatic environment and perform vital ecological functions as part of the network of watersheds that connect forest

traditional and modern

'born' in the same region but 'raised' under very different circumstances

including developments in proximal and remote sensing techniques to measure and monitor crop health