Luxury and Visual Culture, Paperback - John Armitage

From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the c...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 250Collection: Culture & Theory (COL)Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 149 x 224 x 25Cover type: Paper...

An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender....

Can paintings, buildings or installations be 'read' in the way texts are read or deciphered, or do works of visual art ask for their own kind of ap...

DescriptionIslamic Art and Visual Culture is a collection of primarysources in translation accompanied by clear and conciseintroductory essays that...

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Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, ...

Suitable for students of art history as well as those seeking an understanding of art and of the cultural and historical context in which it is mad...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sheldon (University of California, Davis, USA) LuIllustration(s): 40 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Col...

This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus...

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This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in foster...

Reducere. On two separate days in August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the seventy-fift...

This book examines the ways in which luxury fashion brands use their heritage in their digital storytelling and marketing.Publisher: Taylor & Franc...

The essays in this volume engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalization, cultural difference, and curating, as well as e...

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Marianne HirschIllustration(s): B&W Illus.: 57, Number of pages: 320Collection: Gender and Culture S...

This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and soci...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elisabeth BronfenIllustration(s): 59 bw illusNumber of pages: 432Collection: New Encounters: Arts, C...

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This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicat...

In Terra Infirma, Irit Rogoff examines geography's truth claims and signifying practices, arguing that geography is a language in crisis, unable to...

Visual art has been tied to hip-hop culture since its emergence in the 1970s. Commentary on these initial connections often emphasizes the importan...

This book examines Anna of Denmark's engagement with visual and material goods, including architecture, garden design, painting and jewellery. It c...

An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a wide-ranging introduction to the now established interdisciplinary field of visual culture. Mapping a ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

The all-American spirit of midcentury modernism, in three US State Department-sponsored exhibitionsThis revelatory volume recovers and presents the...

Publisher: Ugly Duckling PresseNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 172 x 242 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Yevge...

Reducere. The Cult of the Luxury Brand is the first book to explore how and why an amazing "luxeplosion" is rocking Asia. Whether you are a business professi...

Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. But how and when did such use become esta...

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums.

Co-founder of Novara Media and popular political commentator Aaron Bastani explores the potential of imminent advances in automation as a means of ...

Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first centuryKristin Ross's highly acclaimed work on the thought and culture of the Commu...

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Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Lisa GottoNumber of pages: 268Collection: Digital SocietyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 224 x 20Cov...

This book explores how the comparative analysis of visual cultural artefacts, from objects to architecture and fiction films, can contribute to our...

A thoroughly revised and updated 3rd edition, highlighting the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. Contains 47 essays by...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Lyneise E. (Associate Professor of Art History, UNC Chapel Hill, USA) WilliamsIllustration(s): 9...