On Craftsmanship. Towards a new Bauhaus, Paperback - Christopher Frayling

This series of linked essays explores the crafts in education, in history and literature, in the contemporary arts landscape, in the digital age, a...

Reducere. Spaghetti Westerns is the major critical exploration of the European Western. Christopher Frayling approaches the Westerns produced at Cinecitta St...

An updated edition of the accessible overview of cinema's trajectory from 1895 to present. Emphasises the role of influence across generations.

Frankenstein lives200 years of the book, the movies and the monster in pop culture and beyondOn New Year's Day 1818, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenst...

This Element explores the uncertain future of public policy practice and scholarship in an age of radical disruption. Building on foundational idea...

Reducere. For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887 1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted...

This first anthology of women's international thought explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, from the early to mid...

Offers a comprehensive and illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of Eastern Europe to the Romantics and be...

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At the New Bauhaus and what later became the Institute of Design in Chicago, teachers like L szl Moholy-Nagy and Gy rgy Kepes, and later Arthur Sie...

DescriptionTheodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of "critical theory, " Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the E...

Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John SeedAuthor: Joanna MacyThinking Like a Mountain provides a context for ritual identification with the natural environm...

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Reducere. This edited volume gathers eight cases of industrial materials development, broadly conceived, from North America, Europe and Asia over the last 20...

Focussing on 1930-60, this publicationconsiders Pasmore's transition from figurative painter to abstract artist. Reproducing works from both public...

Reviews the major design methodologies that have had a profound effect on designing future Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures. More precisely, the...

Pioneering study offering a 'new comparatism' - a new world-systems' approach to the 'world' in 'world literature'.Publisher: Liverpool University ...

Reducere. The usage of piezoelectric and ferroelectric thin films is a promising approach to significantly increase the functionality of microelectromechanic...

Immerse yourself in the traditions that have defined our cultures and reveal our connection to what make us human. A new generation wants to lead a...

Examines the emergence and practice of a Western model of intervention, which combines 'hard'/military and 'soft'/peace approaches, and assesses it...

Reducere. Before you read: You should pray quietly and invite the Holy Spirit to breathe upon your understanding and make you comfortable. At the end of your...

President Nixon signed the War on Cancer into Law in 1971. Some forty-five years and several billion dollars later, it looks like we have lost the ...

A collection of essays from a revered member of the British Labour Party. What distinguished Cole was his distance from traditional marxist and bur...

Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): Virginia SeaseIllustration(s): halftonesTranslator: Matthew BartonNumber of pages: 112Publication date...

A cross-disciplinary tour-de-force, The Genes of Culture integrates insights from philosophy, the physical sciences, social psychology and cultural...

Reducere. Ink Spots is a collection of brief but powerful essays on writing, story structure and filmmaking by award-winning writer/director/producer Brian M...

A fresh approach to contemporary views of luxury focusing on extensive academic research and industry insights, pushing the boundaries by using lux...

DescriptionDelve into the lives of 50 of the most important figures of the Bauhaus movement through the recollections of former Bauhaus students, t...

One of the most important books on the modernist movement in architecture, written by a founder of the Bauhaus school.One of the most important boo...

The first full history of Swaine Adeney Brigg, the London makers of luxury leather goods and umbrellas.

This text provides an innovative approach to the pedagogy of contemporary planning processes within different cultural contexts. It has a multi-dis...

Media philosopher Vil m Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, s...

Reducere. The on-screen offerings of Hollywood and Europe have colored the popular perspective of cinema- What it is and what it should be- to such a great e...

Reducere. It's easy to blame the difficulties theatre now faces on the longest shutdown of stages since the mid-seventeenth century. But these problems began...

Walter Gropius outlines the guiding principles of Bauhaus living, from household utensils to textiles and ceramicsThe Bauhaus sought to unite life,...

Publisher: Rockpool PublishingAuthor(s): Luke KennedyNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 23Cover type: Paperback / so...

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