Islamic Art and Visual Culture, Paperback - D. Fairchild Ruggles

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

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

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

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...

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

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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...

The all-American spirit of midcentury modernism, in three US State Department-sponsored exhibitionsThis revelatory volume recovers and presents 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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A bold, readable and beautifully illustrated introduction to an entire civilization, from 7th-century Arabia via medieval Spain and Central Asia to...

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...

This illustrated book provides an overview of Islamic art and architecture during a time that witnessed the formation of a new artistic culture and...

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...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elisabeth BronfenIllustration(s): 59 bw illusNumber of pages: 432Collection: New Encounters: Arts, C...

Reducere. DescriptionThe original inspiration for this book came from visits to the buildings of Moorish Spain, in particular those of Grenada, Cordoba and S...

Designed to equip the cultural tourist and art student with the means to interpret each painting, building, or artifact in terms of the iconography...

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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...

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

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

An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a wide-ranging introduction to the now established interdisciplinary field of visual culture. Mapping a ...