Screening The Body. Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture, Paperback - Lisa Cartwright

Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. But how and when did such use become esta...

Engaging with recent scholarship on film, particularly film and theology as well as classical reception, Lisa Maurice considers the gods of Greek a...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Lisa GottoNumber of pages: 268Collection: Digital SocietyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 224 x 20Cov...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

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

Publisher: Ugly Duckling PresseNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 172 x 242 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Yevge...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionDyslexia and Dysgraphia Workbooks for Kids - Special Education Collection-- This book includes 52 activities to boost the mind for stude...

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums.

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

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...

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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, ...

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Examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colours the vision...

DescriptionGone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier's new range. Today, design...

Haunted by representations of black women that resist the reality of the body's vulnerability, Kimberly Juanita Brown traces slavery's afterlife in...

Using analytical tools from a wide spectrum of disciplines, this edited collection analyzes the role of the body in contemporary Japanese society, ...

This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there. It explores the fascination with ...

A thoroughly revised and updated 3rd edition, highlighting the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. Contains 47 essays by...

This book explores how the comparative analysis of visual cultural artefacts, from objects to architecture and fiction films, can contribute to our...

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Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Lisa ReganIllustration(s): PaperbackNumber of pages: 96Collection: Super Smart Activity BooksPublicati...

Reducere. The story about a body in continuous transformation.This book unravels the mystery surrounding women's biology and explains what is happening under...

Reducere. In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments ...

Reducere. Behold What You Are is written to open the possibilities of liturgy and liturgical awareness, in the church and of the church, Sunday by Sunday, se...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdIllustration(s): 272 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 218 x 35Co...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 49 bw illusNumber of pages: 330Collection: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, ConceptsPublication...

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Publisher: Pearson Education (US)Author(s): Lisa FridsmaNumber of pages: 320Collection: Visual QuickStart GuidePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 17...

Reducere. Former Goldman Sachs Vice President Lisa Endlich draws on an insider's knowledge to bring to life this unique company and the most stunning accompl...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sheldon (University of California, Davis, USA) LuIllustration(s): 40 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Col...

DescriptionFashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor Matthias (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands) SmalbruggeNumber of pages: 184Col...

Road: "A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on ...

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...

Image Science gathers Mitchell's most recent essays on media aesthetics, visual culture, and artistic symbolism. The chapters delve into such topic...

This text covers the history and anthropology of body modification practices. It covers the tattooist's occupational experience, the process and so...

Reducere. In the past fifty years, the study of indigenous and pre-Columbian art has evolved from a groundbreaking area of inquiry in the mid-1960s to an est...

Prepare with confidence for the Phonics Check with Scholastic National Curriculum Tests. Now sold in a book format. [Content previously published a...