Blackness in Morocco. Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture, Paperback - Cynthia J. Becker

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DescriptionIn southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly colored carpets, embroider indigo head co...

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...

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

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

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

Reducere. Inside you'll find 20 things commonly found around Papua New Guinea -- wild boars, exotic birds, fascinating plants and much more. The world is ful...

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

Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

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...

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the ...

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 book is an in-depth analysis of how workers and recipients of home care craft flexibility and security in relation to one another within cons...

This critical and inclusive edited collection offers an overview of the musical in relation to issues of race, culture and identity. Bringing toget...

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...

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...

Reducere. Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history....

Jonathan Wyrtzen's Making Morocco is an extraordinary work of social science history. Making Morocco's historical coverage is remarkably thorough a...

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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...

Culture Smart! Morocco describes the life of Moroccans today, as well as the key customs and traditions that punctuate daily life. It examines the ...

Description"In four brief chapters, " writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, "I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparat...

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

Image Science gathers Mitchell's most recent essays on media aesthetics, visual culture, and artistic symbolism. The chapters delve into such topic...

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...

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DescriptionFashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps ...

Reducere. Presents a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the ...

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

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

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WINNER OF A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD 2018In the early twentieth century, Marguerite Zorach and Georgiana Brown Harbeson were at the ...