The Repeating Body: Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary, Paperback - Kimberly Juanita Brown

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

Holds up a mirror to our society while charting the story of art in contemporary global culture. This book approaches art from various angles, such...

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

Reducere. First Runner-Up in the 2006 Writer's Notes Book Awards, this book utilizes the strengths of children with ASD to help them develop new skills. Task...

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...

DescriptionThroughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors....

DescriptionMore than ever, "the body" is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movemen...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): Louise SteinmanIllustration(s): B&W PHOTOS AND ILLUS. THRUOUTNumber of pages: 176Publication date: ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the 1840s through the end of the Civil War, leading Minnesotans invited slaveholders and their wealth into the free territory and f...

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 ...

Reducere. In 1984, Vanessa Williams broke the race barrier to become Miss America, but she was not the first Black woman to wear a pageant crown. Black beaut...

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

Reducere. Living beyond the boundaries of prescribed inferiority requires an attitude of audacity and a determined code of conduct. Still some African-Americ...

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

Reducere. DescriptionSummers at Whispering Pines defined Renee Clement's childhood. Days meant swimming and sun, nights meant ghost stories and campfires. Be...

Reducere. A moving and evocative exploration of grief and guilt in the wake of one family's devastating loss from the internationally bestselling author of T...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Karen E. BrownNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 156 x 233 x 18Cover type: Paperback /...

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 ...

A powerful, inspiring and courageous memoir of cancer and conflict, from the author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES. Now a critically acclaimed play. 'A m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dr Juanita BynumThe Juanita Bynum Topical Bible REVISED EDITION by New York Times Best Seller, Dr. Juanita Bynum

Reducere. New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major America...

Publisher: Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA)Illustration(s): 20 colour and 35 b&w platesTranslator: Gabriel Perez-BarrieroNumber of pa...

Centering on contemporary synaesthetic and multimodal works, Through the Prism of the Senses examines new theory and practice in body-based arts an...

Reducere. On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet nearly half a million of these individuals, including...

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

In his writing on the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan describes the female body as lacking: a mere symptom of man, an obj...

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

Akinobu Kishi is regarded as one of the leading exponents of shiatsu, and his theory and practice of Seiki Soho are explained for the first time in...

Reducere. Beauty in the Pulpit is a co-author anthology about real women in ministry who have endured hardship, rejection and abuse simply because they are b...

DescriptionA small dolphin on the ankle, a black line on the lower back, a flower on the hip, or a child's name on the shoulder blade--among the wo...

A guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels. This holistic guide offers ...

The purpose of this study guide is to seek answers to questions such as how can we learn to live centred in God's loving presence, in a way that al...

Reducere. The Yoga Kitchen teaches you that by eating holistic recipes you can nourish your mind, strengthen your body, and bring more balance into your life...

This story in 2018 has an anniversary of fifty-eight years. I wrote this book for information and to tell our story. We are Native Americans, and w...

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...

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

In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two Afric...

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

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...

DescriptionThe pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If ...

Reducere. Bold, black women in science--where will their inspiration take you?Throughout history, black women have blazed trails across the fields of science...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Anne (USA) BogartNumber of pages: 184Collection: Theatre MakersPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 130...