Visual Culture Reader, Paperback - Nicholas Mirzoeff

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

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

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 sweeping comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, a field the author helped shape, casts modernity as a contest between vi...

Reducere. Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the w...

With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns l...

What is the relationship between gender and consumerism? Jennifer Scanlon gathers a collection of readings and archival materials to explore the mu...

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...

Descoperiri faimoase incluzand ABU-SIMBEL, mormantul lui Sethos I, portretele Faiyum, bustul pictat al Nefertiti-ei, mormantul lui Tuutankamon si a...

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...

DescriptionWhat is design philosophy and why is it needed? This important book explains the discipline's recent emergence, the key questions which ...

DescriptionThe Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. Bringing together key texts of the last ...

DescriptionAnthropologists have examined how diverse human populations modify and dress their bodies since the earliest days of the discipline. The...

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 will showcase the role of visual literacy as a tool for promoting reading, helping to raise understanding and awareness among librarians ...

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 ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elisabeth BronfenIllustration(s): 59 bw illusNumber of pages: 432Collection: New Encounters: Arts, C...

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...

In Terra Infirma, Irit Rogoff examines geography's truth claims and signifying practices, arguing that geography is a language in crisis, unable to...

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

Reducere. Gender and Pop Culture provides a foundation for the study of gender, pop culture, and media. This newly updated edition is comprehensive and inter...

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

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

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

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...

Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic Afr...

Reducere. Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous country. It has more inhabitants than either Russia or Japan, and its national language, Bengali, ra...

While Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European ...

Reducere. Alaska is home to more than two hundred federally recognized tribes. Yet the long histories and diverse cultures of Alaska's first peoples are ofte...

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...

Contributor(s): Editor: Carolyn KorsmeyerEditor: David HowesTaste is recognized as one of the most evocative senses. The flavors of food play an im...

Reducere. In Cities, the acclaimed historian John Reader takes us on a journey of the city--from its earliest example in the Ancient Near East to today's tee...

Reducere. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a...

Reducere. DescriptionTracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspecti...

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...

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

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

From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most i...

From the editorial by Nicholas Campion: "All the papers published here deal with the human relationship with the sky, for that is the brief of Cult...

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...

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