Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture, Hardcover - Alison Fields

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...

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: 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...

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

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...

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...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Jennie FieldsNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 168 x 198 x 29Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter TurchinWE ARE ON THE WRONG TRACK Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think so. The real wage of a US worker t...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

"The Elements" has become an international sensation, with over one million copies in-print worldwide. An eye-opening, original collection of gorge...

DescriptionInsiders/Outsiders, published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and perva...

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

DescriptionHow art makes visible what had been invisible--the effects of radiation, the lives of atomic bomb survivors, and the politics of the ato...

Reducere. For centuries Christians have engaged their sacred texts as much through the visual as through the written word. Yet until recent decades, the acad...

Reducere. Să facem cunoștință cu atomul, cea mai mică parte a unui element din Univers. Din această carte ilustrată pentru cei mici, copiii vor afla ce este ...

Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. The core notion is that countries protec...

Reducere. Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying he...

Asks what political art look like today, and how art can act critically under neoliberalism Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and f...

Reducere. DescriptionThis richly detailed ethnographic work tells the story of a period of deep civil unrest in India . In 1975 Indira Gandhi declared a stat...

Reducere. The Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery is often presented as an exciting adventure story of discovery, friendship, and patriotism. However, this sa...

Contemporary children's picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying v...

Gratitude Infusion delivers workplace strategies to develop a culture of gratitude throughout your organization. Communication, productivity, teamw...

Reducere. Discordianism, based on worship of Eris, the Greek goddess of Chaos and confusion (among other things), was invented by Kerry W. Thornley aka Omar ...

Reducere. The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commen...

Reducere. THE DECADE OF THE 1950s: while many places in the world are still recovering from the horrors of the Second World War, it is a good time for Americ...

Reducere. A tomul. O poveste fara sfarsit. Incursiune transdisciplinara si transculturala Autori: Simona Modreanu, Maricel Agop, Alina Gavrilut, Gabriel Crum...