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Product Description: In 1962, Ezra Jack Keats's picture book The Snowy Day introduced readers to young Peter, the first African American protagonist in a full-color children's book, who traipsed alone through the snowy, wondrous sidewalks of New York City...read more
By Maurice Berger (contributor) and Claudia J. Nahson
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9780300170221 | Jewish Museum, October 25, 2011, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: In 1962, Ezra Jack Keats's picture book The Snowy Day introduced readers to young Peter, the first African American protagonist in a full-color children's book, who traipsed alone through the snowy, wondrous sidewalks of New York City.

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Product Description: In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse. Asked why she would do this, she explained that by witnessing with their own eyes the brutality of segregation and racism, Americans would be more likely to support the cause of racial justice...read more
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9780300121315 | Yale Univ Pr, April 20, 2010, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse.

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Product Description: Through five photographic styles-commercial product shot, scientific photo, portrait and epic narrative-New York artist Dana Hoey documents a world of primitive living conditions, under five different weather conditions: ash, freeze, thaw, flood and drought...read more
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9781890761134 | Center for Art and Visual Culture, March 31, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Through five photographic styles-commercial product shot, scientific photo, portrait and epic narrative-New York artist Dana Hoey documents a world of primitive living conditions, under five different weather conditions: ash, freeze, thaw, flood and drought.

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Product Description: In his introduction to The 1980s: An Internet Conference, moderator Maurice Berger writes, "As Fredric Jameson reminds us in his essay "Periodizing the 1960s," decades are never neat, clearly defined episodes. Their boundaries are porous, their roots long, their implications far-reaching, their stories, a jumble of events that historical orthodoxy all too easily erases, overestimates, or devalues...read more
By Maurice Berger (editor), Barbara Buhler Lynes (contributor) and David Yager (contributor)
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9781890761097 | Center for Art and Visual Culture, May 30, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In his introduction to The 1980s: An Internet Conference, moderator Maurice Berger writes, "As Fredric Jameson reminds us in his essay "Periodizing the 1960s," decades are never neat, clearly defined episodes.

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Product Description: This volume is the first to examine the portrait photographs of this esteemed husband-and-wife team. The artists' portraits--like their radical landscapes and city-scenes--are powerfully evocative, boldly subverting our expectations of the discipline of portraiture: Rather than capturing the visual essence of a sitter, they reveal identity to be multifarious, transitive and culturally and historically bound...read more
By Max Becher (photographer), Maurice Berger, Charlotte Carter (editor) and Andrea Robbins (photographer)
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9781890761110 | Center for Art and Visual Culture, June 30, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This volume is the first to examine the portrait photographs of this esteemed husband-and-wife team.

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Photographs of 'situations in which one limited or isolated place strongly resembles another distant one'--Dust jacket.
By Max Becher (photographer), Maurice Berger, Lucy R. Lippard and Andrea Robbins (photographer)
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9781597110105 | Aperture, April 3, 2006, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Photographs of 'situations in which one limited or isolated place strongly resembles another distant one'--Dust jacket.

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Product Description: What is the future of the art museum? Should artists and critics have greater say in museum programming? What role can new museum technologies play in the future of the art museum? How should art museums address and correct past histories of predjudice and exclusion? Are art museums doomed to extinction? These pertinent questions and others are asked, discussed, and sometimes even answered in Museums of Tomorrow--documentation of a two-week online conference on the role and future of art museums...read more
By Maurice Berger (editor)
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9781890761073 | Fine Arts Gallery Umbc, September 30, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: What is the future of the art museum?

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Product Description: Alexis Rockman's Manifest Destiny translates into haunting yet inspiring simplicity the environmental crisis of global warming. In conjunction with the opening of the Brooklyn Museum's new entrance pavilion in April 2004, the distinguished American artist Rockman (born 1962) was commissioned to paint a visionary 8-by-24-foot mural about the distant future boroughs...read more
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9780872731516, titled "Manifest Destiny: Manifest Destiny" | Brooklyn Museum Bookshop, August 30, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Alexis Rockman's Manifest Destiny translates into haunting yet inspiring simplicity the environmental crisis of global warming.

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Product Description: The politics of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is the subject of Truth Before Power, Jenny Holzer's recent Kunsthaus Bregenz project. The complicated dialectic of decision-making and public debate, as it has unfolded through the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George H...read more
By Maurice Berger (contributor), Jenny Holzer and Eckhard Schneider (editor)
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9783883758466 | Kunsthaus Bregenz, November 30, 2004, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: The politics of U.

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Product Description: Over the past 20 years, the cultural and scholarly discourse around race has exploded to include the study of whiteness and white privilege, representing a radical shift in the way we think and talk about race in the United States...read more
By Maurice Berger, Wendy Ewald (contributor), David Roediger (contributor) and Patricia J. Williams (contributor)
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9781890761066 | Center for Art and Visual Culture, October 30, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Over the past 20 years, the cultural and scholarly discourse around race has exploded to include the study of whiteness and white privilege, representing a radical shift in the way we think and talk about race in the United States.

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Product Description: Yale University Press is pleased to announce a new exclusive publishing agreement with The Jewish Museum. This beautifully illustrated book explores the culture, history, and beliefs of the Jewish people by presenting an extraordinary selection of works from the collection of The Jewish Museum, New York...read more
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9780300102925 | Jewish Museum, June 10, 2004, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Yale University Press is pleased to announce a new exclusive publishing agreement with The Jewish Museum.

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By Maurice Berger (editor) and Mason Klein (editor)
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9780300105735 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $55.01

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Product Description: Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is one of the greatest - and most misunderstood - artists of the twentieth century. His incisive portraits, erotically charged nudes, beautiful drawings, and primitivistic sculpture have been admired for decades...read more
By Maurice Berger (editor), Emily Braun (contributor), Tamar Garb (contributor), Mason Klein (editor), Amedeo Modigliani (editor) and Griselda Pollock (contributor)
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9780300102642 | Jewish Museum, June 1, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is one of the greatest - and most misunderstood - artists of the twentieth century.

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Explores the connection between dance and visual arts in the work of choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown.
By Addison Gallery of American Art (corporate author), Roland Aeschlimann (editor), Maurice Berger (editor) and Hendel Teicher (editor)
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9780262201391 | Mit Pr, November 15, 2002, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Explores the connection between dance and visual arts in the work of choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown.

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Product Description: From his child-sized Klan robes and rows of empty gilded sneakers to his recent photographs of uninhabited pedagogical spaces, Gary Simmons's work contains and invokes an absence as palpable and fraught with meaning as any presence...read more
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9780933856721 | Museum of Contemporary Art, April 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: From his child-sized Klan robes and rows of empty gilded sneakers to his recent photographs of uninhabited pedagogical spaces, Gary Simmons's work contains and invokes an absence as palpable and fraught with meaning as any presence.

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Product Description: If social justice is Fred Wilson's subject, the museum is his medium. By placing meticulously rendered objects in environments that carefully recreate the details of a museum setting, down to their wall colors, lighting, display cases and wall labels, Wilson incisively explores the question of how the museum consciously and unconsciously perpetuates racist beliefs and behavior...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781890761042 | Univ of the Arts Philadelphia, April 1, 2002, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: If social justice is Fred Wilson's subject, the museum is his medium.

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9780943836201 | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine, December 1, 2000, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in AmericaMaurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged environment of New York City in the sixties. His father was a Jewish liberal who worshiped Martin Luther King, Jr...read more
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9780374289492 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1999, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The author analyzes the racial experiences of his boyhood while investigating the treatment of blacks in society and the media

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9780374527150 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in AmericaMaurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged environment of New York City in the sixties.

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Product Description: Artwork by Adrian Piper. Edited by Maurice Berger. Contributions by Jean Fisher, Kobena Mercer. Text by Laura Cottingham.
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9781890761028 | Fine Arts Gallery Umbc, January 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Artwork by Adrian Piper.

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Product Description: Not long ago, the fate of a film or Broadway show rested in the hands of the critics. Producers and directors could be found in Sardis opening night waiting nervously for the reviews in the late edition papers. A film would fail with a pan from Pauline Kael...read more
By Maurice Berger (editor)
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9781565844179 | New Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Not long ago, the fate of a film or Broadway show rested in the hands of the critics.

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Product Description: Edited by Maurice Berger.
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9781890761004 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Edited by Maurice Berger.

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9780962456596 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, April 1, 1997, cover price $25.00

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9780933286719 | Friends of Photography Bookstore, August 1, 1996, cover price $21.95

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Product Description: This anthology takes us beyond the status of masculinity itself, questioning society's and the media's normative concepts of the masculine, and considering the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and prescriptions.
By Maurice Berger (editor), Brian Wallis (editor), Simon Watson (editor) and Carrie Mae Weems (editor)
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9780415910521 | Routledge, August 1, 1995, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This anthology takes us beyond the status of masculinity itself, questioning society's and the media's normative concepts of the masculine, and considering the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and prescriptions.

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Product Description: Artwork by Leon Golub, Nancy Spero. Edited by Maurice Berger. Text by Jo Anna Isaak.
By Maurice Berger, Leon Golub, Jo Anna Isaak and Nancy Spero (other contributor)
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9780962456565 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, August 1, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Artwork by Leon Golub, Nancy Spero.

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