Fashioning the Afropolis. Histories, Materialities and Aesthetic Practices, Hardback - ***

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 112 color illusNumber of pages: 240Collection: Dress CulturesPublication date: 2022Dimensions:...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 40 bw illusNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 24Cover type: Har...

Dressy men as a type of celebrity have played a distinctive part in the cultural - and even in the political - life of Britain over several centuri...

DescriptionIn Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation o...

Featuring a staggering range of cultural touchstones from Hercules to Virgil Abloh, Giovanni Battista Moroni to Jawaharlal Nehru, Yves Saint Lauren...

Marco Caracciolo investigates how the experience of slowness in contemporary narrative practices can create a vision of interconnectedness between ...

This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its b...

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This collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge research on informal education - that is, learning practices that emphasise dialo...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Dr Patrick TreacyIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 239 ...

A counter-touristic guide to one of the world's fastest developing megacities, this book intervenes in global contemporary art discourse by explori...

Reducere. Designed for group use, the Betrayal & Beyond Workbook reveals the truth and nature of sexual addiction, and how women are wounded by the addict's ...

This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for ...

An introduction to philosophy of Li Zezhou, one of the contemporary China's foremost intellectuals. It presents Li's synthesis of Chinese aesthetic...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 404Collection: Studies of Digital Media CulturePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 224 x 30Cover t...

Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism. Gimmicks make promises o...

Alexander Des Forges reads shiwen from a literary perspective, showing how the examination essay redefined prose aesthetics, transformed the work o...

Explores tensions in aesthetics and art theory between antique figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional ...

This title explores the seemingly unorthodox alliance of the arts, management and marketing. Using case studies of successful art managers, the aut...

What are the key topics that define Romantic violin playing?

A new and unique guide to a growing phenomenon in global hospitality: the Art Restaurant, where captivating art and memorable food meet.Publisher: ...

Publisher: Inventory Press LLCNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 235 x 306 x 17Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii...

This collection examines the problems and challenges of formulating national theatre histories. The essayists included here provide an internationa...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s dissents are influential because of their literary qualities of superfluity and energy he inherited from Emerson. The a...

In this new series of short books under the Histories of the Unexpected brand, Sam Willis and James Daybell take on some of greatest historical sub...

In this new series of short books under the Histories of the Unexpected brand, Sam Willis and James Daybell take on some of greatest historical sub...

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. This book addresses how music, the phonograph, and film served...

Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous--the worst of postwar modernist ar...

This richly illustrated volume discusses the histories of the port city of Butrint, and its intimate connection to the wider conditions of the Adri...

The main part of Polybius' history covers the years 264--146 BCE, describing the rise of Rome, her destruction of Carthage, and her eventual domina...

The historian Polybius (ca 200-118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in a...

The historian Polybius (ca 200-118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in a...

Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.Publi...

Botulinum toxin injections are the most used and best-known aesthetic treatment internationally, but there remain problematic topics and suboptimal...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Malcolm RussellIllustration(s): 417 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Tacitus was the greatest historian of the Roman empire. His portraits - especially those of Tiberius, Nero, and Nero's immediate circle - are unfor...

An investigation of different uses for the architectural model through history-as sign, souvenir, funerary object, didactic tool, medium for design...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Rachel (The National Archives, UK) HillmanNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 ...

Publisher: Thieme Medical Publishers IncAuthor(s): Derek H. JonesNumber of pages: 162Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 259 x 184 x 16Cover type: Ha...

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Reducere. DescriptionAs America's first historical society, the Massachusetts Historical Society has collected family materials since 1791, including long-ch...

Reducere. In this powerful and expansive story of the vast Caribbean archipelago, Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turits chronicle how it has been at the hear...

From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. As Tolkien knew, Britain in the 'Dark Ages' was a mosaic o...

This collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. The contributors include p...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 159 x 234 x 22Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Sarah GambleRede...

Reducere. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Llewella (University of East Anglia, UK) ChapmanIllustration(s): 8 colour and 46 bw illusNumber of p...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Dr Patrick TreacyIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 233 x 156 ...