Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages. Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions, New ed, Hardback - ***

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

Voyages of Discovery is a mesmerising visual record of ten of the world's most significant natural history expeditions.

Publisher: Palala PressAuthor(s): Richard PerryIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 794Publication date: 2015Dimensions:...

Publisher: SPCK PublishingAuthor(s): Esther WhittockNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 201 x 246 x 17Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Fred M. WalkerNumber of pages: 304Collection: Hakluyt Society, Third SeriesPublication date: 2022Dimensio...

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...

Publisher: Paul H. Crompton LtdAuthor(s): P.D. OuspenskyNumber of pages: 399Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 242 x 162 x 34Cover type: HardbackRed...

Explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripherie...

This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary examination of how we visualize and use visuals to make meaning within our environment. A dive...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom one of the most respected and prolific esoteric writers of all times, comes this detailed study of the history, philosophy and infl...

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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...

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Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

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

Customized denim battle jackets are worn by heavy metal fans to show their devotion to the music and subcultures of metal. Unique study outlines th...

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

Umberto Nobile was an airship designer and pilot who became an Arctic explorer. In 1926 he flew the airship 'Norge' from Rome to Teller in Alaska, ...

Reducere. What's your Fart IQ?Did you know that cats fart more in Pennsylvania? That Mississippi students go to jail for farting? That there's a movie award ...

How the Golden Age of transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women's lives across all classes - a vivid portrait of life on-board the ic...

In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to ensure that war crimes committed during the Second World War were prosecuted. Focusing on P...

An arresting insight into the origins and material culture of Arctic peoples, whose lifestyle is now threatened by climate change.Illustrations: 34...

DescriptionA classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist...

Reducere. Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation is a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, ...

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

The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authorit...

A cross-disciplinary tour-de-force, The Genes of Culture integrates insights from philosophy, the physical sciences, social psychology and cultural...

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This book examines Anna of Denmark's engagement with visual and material goods, including architecture, garden design, painting and jewellery. It c...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 218Collection: Popular Culture and Everyday LifePublication date: 2007Dimensions: 159 x 237 x ...

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...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 226Collection: CounterpointsPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 20Cover type: Hardba...

A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene

Publisher: Irish Museum of Modern ArtNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 277 x 219 x 24Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Sean Kissan...

A central question in political representation is whether government responds to the people. To understand that, we need to know what the governmen...

This book is a history of the initiative, its projects and actors, notably the architect and planner Ernst May, and its achievements, set within th...

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African Media and DemocratizationPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Jr., Yusuf KalyangoNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 2011Dimens...

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

A comprehensive overview of the vision and achievements of Tokyo-based digital art collective teamLab, which illuminates the remarkable scope of te...

Two newly discovered ships which sank in the Arctic ice 170 years ago may hold clues to the fate of explorer, Captain Francis Crozier, who led the ...

Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Ha...

An introduction to the study and application of performance art through phenomenology for radical artists, educators and practitioner-researchers. ...