Downcast Eyes: Denigration of Vision in 20th-Century French, Paperback - Martin Jay

Long considered "the noblest of the senses, " vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dom...

The spectacular capacity to see the world around them has evolved in many different ways among animals. From scallops and jumping spiders to humans...

Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available, including photography and new media, and thematically chaptered to highlight relationshi...

From furniture to graphics, its all here - the work of artists who have shaped and recreated the modern world with a dizzying variety of materials....

This book searches for an understanding of the historiography of planning in a European dimension. Scholars from Eastern and Western, Southern and ...

From full skirts to miniskirts and morning coats to leisure suits, men's and women's clothing design evolved so rapidly that it was all one could d...

Orthodox Theology in the 20th century and early 21st century

During this period, Renoir was initially looking at painters such as Rubens, Titian and Raphael, and dedicating himself to cheery subjects such as ...

This book provides a fascinating insight into the collection's rich diversity; from conceptual art to abstraction to reportage, all of the major mo...

The chronologically organized chapters put it all into perspective, illustrated by hundreds of large-format photos as well as a plenitude of drawin...

Matched to the latest Cambridge assessment criteria, this in-depth Exam Success Guide brings clarity and focus to exam preparation with detailed an...

By examining the studios and studio-houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940, this book reveals the ways in which artists used architec...

Publisher: Henry Moore Sculpture TrustIllustration(s): 178 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 404Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 170 x 241 x 29Cov...

'A minor modern classic, to my mind, uniting art history and landscape thought by means of dazzling, dancing, unsettling sentences ... I'm delighte...

Publisher: Clemson University Digital PressAuthor(s): Lauryl TuckerNumber of pages: 282Collection: Clemson University PressPublication date: 2022Di...

Publisher: Peter Lang AGAuthor(s): Peter RusnakNumber of pages: 216Collection: Spectrum SlovakiaPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 16Cov...

Throughout the twentieth century housing displays have proven to be a singular genre of architectural and design exhibitions. By crossing geographi...

A long overdue monograph on the life and work of artist Ruskin Spear.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Tanya HarrodIllustration(s): Illustra...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen TrimbleWhen you hold a Pueblo pot in your hands, you feel a tactile connection through the clay to the potter and t...

Reducere. In Boysie's Horn, social historian, radio host, producer, journalist, and novelist Steven Leech highlights the influence of one of America's greate...

Urban Design & Architecture is a richly illustrated journey in the architectural events of the 20th century. At the same time, it offers an excitin...

Reducere. Transpacific Antiracism introduces the dynamic process out of which social movements in Black America, Japan, and Okinawa formed Afro-Asian solidar...

This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and...

The follow-up to Hannah's Story, this recounts the fortunes of Hannah's female descendants into the 20th century and the enduring challenges they f...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Alan BrownlowIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 92Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 12C...

Description1917 saw one of the most dramatic revolutions in world history when the workers of Russia united to throw out their tsar and aristocracy...

The essays in this collection, by one of the most recognized figures in the field of intellectual history, touch on a wide variety of topics, rangi...

Publisher: Leisure Studies AssociationNumber of pages: 213Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 232 x 146 x 8Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul ...

Presents the history of Western ideas about the nature of human experience. This book explores Western discourse since the sixteenth century onward...

A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum ...

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

Reducere. Music of Yes examines the work of one of the most creative groups from the progressive rock period, Yes.Unlike most books on rock music, Music of Y...

Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection analyses the depiction of figures of transgression (e.g. traitors, deserters, refugees) in a var...