Abject Visions. Powers of Horror in Art and Visual Culture, Paperback - ***

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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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, ...

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

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

Offers a view of the role of visual art in Canadian education, from its roots as industrial drawing in the early 19th century to its important posi...

Reducere. Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in t...

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

DescriptionA century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design ...

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...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Tony MagistraleIllustration(s): 6 ill.Number of pages: 213Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 155 x 22...

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

American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael ...

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...

An indispensable resource for students, researchers and teachers seeking to use visual sources in their research and understand how images work. Th...

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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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Reducere. Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation is a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, ...

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...

Uncovering a wealth of neglected archival information, this book examines both visual and textual material from the mid-nineteenth century Franklin...

This is the first book to analyse art from the northern frontier zones of Roman Britain and to interpret the meaning and significance of this art i...

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

A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced a...

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...

DescriptionHigher education institutions have experienced a sharp increase in demand for accountability. To meet the growing demand by legislators,...

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

Publisher: Atelier EditionsAuthor(s): Annebella PollenNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 235 x 173 x 23Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. Visions of Medieval Castles. In Fourteenth and Didteenth - Century Illuminations Produces in France The texts and images vehiculated by the medieva...

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

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Rachel Afi QuinnIllustration(s): 28 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 264Publication date...

Improve your bullet journals, to-do lists, class notes, and everything in between with The Art of Visual Notetaking and its unique approach to taki...

The devastation of disease, the pace of death and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous he...

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

Publisher: CatapultAuthor(s): Larissa PhamNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x 201 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

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

Reducere. The official guide to the film artistry of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Forty years ago, Star Trek: The Motion Picture brought Kirk, Spock, and t...