The Everyday in Visual Culture. Slices of Lives, Paperback - ***

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

Reducere. The hugely popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) is an emblematic figure of Japan's rapidly changing cultural milieu in the early twe...

Covers films produced in New England between 1915-1960 and held in the collections of the repository, Northeast Historic Film.

DescriptionFrom Bay Ridge to Astoria, political action in Arab New York Arab Americans are a numerically small proportion of the US population yet ...

Creative Resilience and COVID-19 examines arts, culture and everyday life as a way of navigating through and past COVID-19. Drawing together intern...

Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turne...

Where do design principles come from? Are they abstract ``rules`` established by professionals or do they have roots in human experience? And if we...

It was her ability to listen that led him to entrust her with his story. Stories of Hope will examine Heather's extraordinary journey, in the form ...

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

This book is the result of 45 years of part-time research into the Shropshire Speake families. It describes the history of the author's family thro...

Reducere. DescriptionSpaces we live in define our identity and sense of community. Using international examples of environmental architecture and design, The...

Reducere. "CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE - Connecting Countries Saving Millions of Lives" is a compilation of essays by Andre Vltchek. China's Belt and Ro...

Reducere. Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in t...

Explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane...

Reducere. We all experience moments of Divine Grace from time to time, and the more we are focused on the Divine Creator, the more we will notice them. These...

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

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Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Ella Frances SandersNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 215 x 22Cover type: Paperba...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Rachel Afi QuinnIllustration(s): 28 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 264Publication date...

Reducere. Butler's Lives of the Saints is the most revered Catholic book after the Bible, the Missal and The Imitation of Christ. A Saint or two for each day...

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

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...

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English Visual Dictionary. A photo guide to everyday words and phrases in English

German Visual Dictionary. A photo guide to everyday words and phrases in German

Reducere. Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to com-promise t...

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...

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...

Japanese Visual Dictionary. A photo guide to everyday words and phrases in Japanese

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

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

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...

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

Reducere. Through the ages up to and including ours, Catholics have witnessed or heard about miraculous events that offer supernatural evidence of God's exis...

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...

Italian Visual Dictionary. A photo guide to everyday words and phrases in Italian

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From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines ...

Reducere. A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Vietnamese. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a pra...

Reducere. A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Thai. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical...

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...

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...

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