Art & Visual Culture: A Reader, Paperback - Angeliki Lymberopolou

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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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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...

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...

Posthumanism in Art and Science is an anthology of indispensable statements and artworks featuring groundbreaking theorists as well as innovative, ...

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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...

DescriptionThe Reader Art and Its Global Histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerp...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

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

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

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

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...

DescriptionThe Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. Bringing together key texts of the last ...

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, ...

Reducere. As the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in Asia and host the first annual gay pride in the Sinophone Pacific, Taiwan is a historic center ...

Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts fr...

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

Publisher: Hatje CantzAuthor(s): Julia VossIllustration(s): 30 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 ...

Publisher: And Other StoriesAuthor(s): Gerald MurnaneNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 14Cover type: Paperback / so...

Drawing on medieval sources from western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the hist...

Aims to bring together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of theorists and activists, including Han...

DescriptionAnthropologists have examined how diverse human populations modify and dress their bodies since the earliest days of the discipline. The...

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Publisher: Museum of Modern ArtAuthor(s): Phil TaylorIllustration(s): 100 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimen...

Reducere. P. J. O'Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America's most celebrated humorists. But that career almost didn't happen. As he explains it, "I...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Christopher SchlottmannEnvironment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and d...