Skullture: Skulls in Contemporary Visual Culture, Hardcover

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...

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...

Reducere. This books examines representations and experiences of trans and nonbinary identities in a variety of contemporary cultural contexts including medi...

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

The all-American spirit of midcentury modernism, in three US State Department-sponsored exhibitionsThis revelatory volume recovers and presents the...

DescriptionInsiders/Outsiders, published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and perva...

Jesus Rocks is a universally appealing art book showcasing the icon in contemporary art, graphic design, advertising, and pop culture. Presenting a...

Visual Feast reveals a world where food is both an art medium and an edible eccentricity. We eat with our eyes. People love to stage and take photo...

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...

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

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

Offers a view of the role of visual art in Canadian education, from its roots as industrial drawing in the early 19th century to its important posi...

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

Reducere. DescriptionBright, bold, and bursting with color-drenched patterns, the paintings of the postmodernist American artist Jeanne Leighton-Lundberg Cla...

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Lyneise E. (Associate Professor of Art History, UNC Chapel Hill, USA) WilliamsIllustration(s): 9...

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

This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus...

Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media and Culture provides a theoretical and empirical toolkit to examine implications of mediated im...

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

Reducere. DescriptionMadonna has been a force to be reckoned with in popular culture for nearly 40 years. As she turns 60 (b. August 16, 1958), "MLVC60" docu...

Reducere. Political acts are encoded in medial forms -- feet marching on a street, punch holes on a card, images on live stream, tweets -- that have force, s...

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...

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...

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...

DescriptionThe look and feel of metropolitan France has been a notable preoccupation of French literary and visual culture since the 1980s. Numerou...

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

A study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the ear...

Publisher: Atelier EditionsAuthor(s): Annebella PollenNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 235 x 173 x 23Cover type: Paperback / s...

A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced a...

DescriptionDebut picture book author Blair Thornburgh and award-winning illustrator Scott Campbell put their heads together to celebrate one of the...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 400Collection: Arden Shakespeare IntersectionsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 24...

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...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book is about the importance of pre-Christian, pagan statues in Byzantine art which has so far focused heavily on the sacred icons of Christ a...

Reducere. Animal skulls are much more than passive decorations on an altar; they are potential allies in the ancient divinatory art of scrying. Through skull...

This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproductio...

The devastation of disease, the pace of death and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous he...