Skin Theory. Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory, Paperback - Cristina Mejia Visperas

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Cristina Mejia VisperasIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 20...

Postwar Italian Art History Today brings fresh critical consideration to the parameters and impact of Italian art and visual culture studies of the...

At a time of increased interest and renewed shock over the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Acres of Skin sheds light on yet another dark episode of ...

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...

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...

The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves as a benchmark in the history of war reporting a...

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...

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

Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception - Kim Grant

Reducere. A traveler's guide for Christians to a foreign land where the fields are ripe for harvest.For most Christians, prison culture is like visiting a fo...

Documentary photography is undergoing an unprecedented transformation as it adapts to the impact of digital technology, social media and new distri...

Reducere. Named a Best Book of 2018 by Fast Company, this is a "sharply written and brilliantly reported" (Shelf Awareness) look inside Reddit, the wildly po...

Contemporary Photography and Theory offers an essential overview of some of the key critical debates in fine art photography today. Building on a f...

Uncovering a wealth of neglected archival information, this book examines both visual and textual material from the mid-nineteenth century Franklin...

Assembling the Architect explores the origins and history of architectural practice. It unravels the competing interests that historically have str...

Richard Jean So draws on big data, computational methods, literary history, and close readings to offer an unprecedented analysis of racial inequal...

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

America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people--or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop ...

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

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...

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

The technological innovation and unprecedented physical growth of the cold war era permeated American life in every aspect and at every scale. From...

Reducere. An art form unique in the world, tattoos are as varied in style and form as the living bodies they adorn. Under the Skin examines tattoos from thre...

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates...

The Edinburgh Festival is the world's largest arts festival. It has also been the site of numerous 'culture wars' since it began in 1947. This book...

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

Reducere. The Ultimate Resource for the Beetle Enthusiast: Beetles fascinate hobbyists with their vivid colors and patterns, strange forms, and unusual behav...

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

The contributors of this collection explore various aspects and questions surrounding craft beer culture from perspectives of business, gender, com...

Publisher: Seagull Books London LtdAuthor(s): Jean-Paul SartreTranslator: Chris TurnerNumber of pages: 138Collection: The French ListPublication da...

Reducere. A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, "Soledad Brother" is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful apprais...

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

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

What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the vis...

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

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Marianne HirschIllustration(s): B&W Illus.: 57, Number of pages: 320Collection: Gender and Culture S...

A Laboratory of Her Own gathers diverse voices to address women's interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish cultural production. This ...

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

Reducere. Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks repres...

Reducere. Cartea Microeconomie. Teorie si teste in limba engleza a fost conceputa ca un ghid util pentru studentii anului I, profil economic si juridic, dar ...

Microeconomics. Theory and Tests - Maria-Cristina Stefan

Kelli Moore traces the political origins of the concept of domestic violence through visual culture in the United States, showing how it is rooted ...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Suzanna IvanicIllustration(s): 450 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimension...