Shock of the New. Art and the Century of Change, Paperback - Robert Hughes

An illustrated 100-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. .

Reducere. This title is a greatly expanded volume of the original Art and Science of Teaching, offering a framework for substantive change based on Marzano s...

Reducere. On October 4, 1957, the day Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pound...

Over the course of his distinguished career, Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion--and himself. The S...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis title is a greatly expanded volume of the original Art and Science of Teaching, offering a competency-based education framework for...

"An overview of recent developments and the current state of music composition, and a guide for students and composers who are working within these...

The #1 international bestselling author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding and re-shaping our relationship with risk a...

DescriptionIdentity has become a central feature of national conversations: identity politics and identity crises are the order of the day. We cele...

Reducere. In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine's Phedre, Euripedes' Alcestis, and the trilog...

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Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Christopher GrobeIllustration(s): 35 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Pe...

Provides an in-depth examination of the strategies deployed by painters Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and sculptor Mary Lewis that enabled th...

Reducere. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular account...

Reducere. DescriptionEqual under the Sky is the first historical study of Georgia O'Keeffe's complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the...

Reducere. The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth Century England In 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring that a man woul...

Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibili...

Suitable for graduate-level courses on measurement or research methods, this book offers a gentle introduction to and overview of complex measureme...

This book explores how the ancient path of shamanism can help us to understand the nature of mental illness, recasting psychological breakdown as a...

Embracing history and society, literature and theatre, medicine and religion, author and magician Ian Keable reveals our susceptibility to being du...

Reducere. For nearly a century, Japanese writers gave voice to the anxieties of a nation headed inexorably toward war. Not just any war, but one that in the ...

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Reducere. A controversial hit that sparked debate among businessmen, environmentalists, and bloggers, The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler is an eye-o...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): David P. BillingtonIllustration(s): 57 b/w illus.Number of pages: 328Collection: Princeton Science ...

Reducere. Now Back in PrintJohanna Drucker's The Century of Artists' Books is the seminal full-length study of the development of artists' books as a twentie...

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia-An epic description of t...

Reducere. Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the ...

Reducere. Eighteen-year-old Charlee Parker met the love of her life in a parking lot--a leggy brunette with a valedictorian medal hanging from her rear-view ...

An NYRB Classics Original Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city-scapes, ...

Reducere. Part of The New Art and Science of Teaching series Only when teachers have in-depth knowledge of reading skill and literacy development can they de...

A dazzling biography of the Eternal City, from the author of The Shock Of The New and The Fatal Shore, and now available in paperback. Exhilarating...

Published alongside Danube and Amsterdam, this travel guide takes a scholarly look at the history and sights of the city that nurtured the creativi...

A complete guide to the techniques of the pre-Celtic Druids for understanding the past, present, and future

Reducere. DescriptionPart of The New Art and Science of Teaching series Rely on this comprehensive guide to help you implement the teaching methods of Dr. Ro...

DescriptionIn Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesth...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressIllustration(s): 9 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 248Collection: e-flux ArchitecturePublication date: 20...

DescriptionNineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchang...

Sleight of Mouth is about the magic of words and language. Language is one of the key representational systems from which we build our mental model...

Reducere. This text asserts that the late-20th century is witnessing a fundamental shift in the belief structure of Western industrial society revolutionizin...

Yugoslavia's diverse and interconnected art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s, linked to the country's experience with socialist self-management. ...

Offering an understanding of politics in fifth-century Athens, this title constructs models of Athenian political groupings to explain the rise of ...