Inexorable Modernity. Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts, Paperback - ***

A compilation of case studies about Japanese intellectuals' relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, ...

Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph...

No account of 20th Century British art can overlook the numerous works of the period that were essentially "religious" in their content. Art, Faith...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 8 colour and 54 bw illusNumber of pages: 272Collection: Visual Cultures and German ContextsPub...

Reducere. In this fascinating collection of essays, an international group of scholars explores the sonic consequences of transcultural contact in the early ...

A magnificent panorama of the creative revolutions of mid-15th-century EuropeFrom roughly the 1430s onward, inspired by developments in the Netherl...

Tells the story that lies behind the planning and architecture of Punjab's capital, Chandigarh. This title traces the cultural preconceptions and i...

A timely exploration of many facets of collecting and collectors. Part 1 Collecting and Presenting the Etruscans in North America; Part 2 Satis sit...

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 ...

Publisher: The Crowood Press LtdAuthor(s): Angus MacdonaldIllustration(s): 30 Figures; 23 Halftones, black and white; 116 Halftones, colorNumber of...

This richly illustrated study is the first consider the manifold functions and meanings of Hals's distinctive handling of paint. Atkins explores th...

Reducere. Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contem...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Arjun AppaduraiNumber of pages: 248Collection: Public WorldsPublication date: 1996Dimensions: 22...

This book demonstrates how the experience of change in the modern period was first registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new ...

Modernity at Large is an edited collection of the essays that made Appadurai an influential figure in cultural anthropology. Collectively, these no...

Reducere. What role have communication media played in the formation of modern societies? How should we understand the social impact of new forms of communic...

Publisher: Hatje CantzIllustration(s): 120 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 178 x 242 x 23Cover type...

Reducere. In this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism. But despite its omnipresenc...

What is the role of architecture if not to realize a shared vision of the "good life, " a vision that in the age of architectural modernism shaped-...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kyle T. MaysExpressive culture has always been an important part of the social, political, and economic lives of Indigenous...

Reducere. In Weak and Widespread, modernity stands as a contrasting operative practice when compared to that of the 20th century, which was based on finding ...

Reducere. Back in print, the essential, unsurpassed Bauhaus overviewThe Bauhaus, the school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and shut down by the...

DescriptionMusic and Modernity among First Peoples of North America is a collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from both Canada and...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor Yuri (Dalhousie University, Canada) LevingIllustration(s): approx 30-40 b/wNumber of pages...

The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780–1914 - Karl Bell

An ambitious and revelatory investigation of the black female figure in modern art, tracing the legacy of Manet through to contemporary art

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Exploring the conflict between China's rapid modernisation and the west, as well as its own traditional values -- KOPublisher: Pluto PressNumber of...

This book traces the influence of the changing political environment on Czech art, criticism, history, and theory between 1895 and 1939, looking be...

Contributor(s): Author: David F. GarciaIn Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and a...

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative - Alasdair MacIntyre

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

Reducere. Claude Lefort, one of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century, reads Dante's Monarchia and demonstrates the surprising r...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elizabeth (Independent Scholar, UK) WilsonNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 216 ...

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonAuthor(s): Regina ElsnerNumber of pages: 440Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 2...

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. This book addresses how music, the phonograph, and film served...

A timely attempt to re-map a critical appreciation of early twentieth-century modernism through a Nordic lens.

Reducere. DescriptionRecovers a 15th-century thinker's original insights for theology and philosophy today Societies today, says Johannes Hoff, are character...

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the om...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jack Meng-Tat (Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Histor...

Reducere. Gnostic Return in Modernity demonstrates the possibility that Gnosticism haunts certain modern discourses. Studying Gnosticism of the first centuri...

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 ...

Shaping Modernity. The railway journey across two centuries - Radu Marza

Museums, Modernity and Conflict examines the history of the relationship between museums, collections and war, revealing how museums have responded...

Reducere. From its birth in 1839, photography has participated in modernity as much as it has symbolized it. Its capacity to record and display and its claim...

New in paperback, this book, is likely to be adopted on many courses covering the Holocaust. A unique but disturbing book - winner of the 1989 Euro...

In this groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most lo...