The Arts: art forms

Five seminal events occurred in New York City in the pivotal year 1964: the "e;British Invasion,"e; the arrival of the Beatles in February; the murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens in March; the World's Fair that ran in Queens between April and October; the "e;race riots"e; in Brooklyn and Harlem in July; and the World Series in the Bronx between the New York Yankees and the St.

The veterans' culture in postwar eras from World War I to the present is examined in this book, with specific attention to the historic events of each era as they influence veterans, and the literature and movies produced about veterans and by veterans.

When the first season of Star Trek opened to American television viewers in 1966, the thematically insightful sci-fi story line presented audiences with the exciting vision of a bold voyage into the final frontiers of space and strange, new galactic worlds.

Children's literature is an excellent way to educate children, on everything from social behavior and beliefs to attitudes toward education itself.

Winner of a third-place award for popular presentation of the faith by the Catholic Media Association.

There is no soundtrack is a study of how sound and image produce meaning in contemporary experimental media art by artists ranging from Chantal Akerman to Nam June Paik to Tanya Tagaq.

Approaching the Stuart courts through the lens of the queen consort, Anna of Denmark, this study is underpinned by three key themes: translating cultures, female agency and the role of kinship networks and genealogical identity for early modern royal women.

The first comprehensive account of how and why architects learned to communicate through colorArchitectural drawings of the Italian Renaissance were largely devoid of color, but from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth, polychromy in architectural representation grew and flourished.

This new series of cutting edge critical essays and articles in issues concerning Drama and Performance opens with Volume I, which will focus on issues of Interventionist Drama and related examples of Drama as Community.

Part of Intellect's World Film Locations series, World Film Locations: Helsinki explores the relationship between the city, cinema and Finnish cultural history.

A richly illustrated cultural history of the midcentury pulp paperback"e;There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes.

In these essays, dancers and scholars from around the world carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa and the Middle East into a popular global dance practice.

With the very real possibility of nuclear war looming on the horizon from 1945 to the early 1960s, both federal and local governments took on the responsibility of educating Americans on how to survive the expected blasts, residual fallout, and radiation poisoning.

World Film Locations: Glasgow explores Scotland's biggest city and the many locations in which its films are viewed, set and shot.

Why modern and contemporary artand art conservationcan't be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plasticsModern and contemporary art wouldn't exist without the invention of plastics.

Nano denotes a billionth; a nanometer is a billionth of a meter.

Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry.

Insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists.

The authors explore a range of different approaches to the languages of theatre, including translation and interpretation of the art form, along with languages, performance work, body language and gesture.

Live performance continues to be created every time it is performed.

Fok focuses on the ways in which these artists use their own bodies, animals' bodies and other corporeal substances to represent life and death in performance art, installations, and photography.

A unique contribution to an emerging field, Composed Theatre explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work.

Capture a sense of grandeur when you draw this diverse collection of mountain-dwelling animals and birds.

The Flame of Eternity provides a reexamination and new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and the central role that the concepts of eternity and time, as he understood them, played in it.

The classic book on the art and history of weaving-now expanded and in full colorWritten by one of the twentieth century's leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design.

Theatre in Dublin,17451820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin's many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

Violet Oakley: An Artists Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (18741961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States, as well as an illustrator, stained glass artist, portraitist and author.

A step-by-step illustrated introduction to the astounding mathematics of symmetryThis lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry.

Cultivating Strategic GivingTraditional philanthropy is constantly challenged by the complexities of global need.

This book concerns clinical psychology, but it is most concerned with the world outside the clinic.

Perhaps best known for his classic movie lines, such as Fill your hands, you sons-of-bitches!

The question of the relation of Martin Heidegger's thought to politics has been a subject of controversy since the 1930s, when he became an advocate of the National Socialist regime in Germany.

Noteworthy Francophone Women Directors: A Sequel is a comprehensive guide that acts as both a teaching tool and a directory for research.

"e;According to the words of Phaedrus in the Symposium of Plato, Love, sometimes named Eros, has no parents, no age, no history, and its origin remains unknown to anyone.

This book examines the use of image and text juxtapositions in conceptual art as a strategy for challenging several ideological and institutional demands placed on art.

In this book, Eleonora Redaelli investigates the arts in American cities, providing insight into urban cultural policy discourse through the lens of space.

This book presents the first comparative study of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion in relation to their vigorous struggles against Nazi aggression during World War II and the Holocaust.

This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts:  first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies treating fragmentary wall paintings in the Carthusian monastery near Coventry; the devotional images in the Carthusian Miscellany; and meditation for "e;simple souls"e; in the Carthusian Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ.

This book proposes another unique basis for the origins of religion from disturbances in brain function.

This book demonstrates the complexity of nineteenth-century Britain's engagement with Palestine and its surrounds through the conceptual framing of the region as the Holy Land.

John Bramblitt makes his living as a visualartist.

Der vorliegende Band ist der neunte Band einer Reihe, in der sich eine Gruppe von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern, die sich 2014 an der Technischen Universität Dresden unter der Bezeichnung WEITERSEHEN – interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Dresdner Serienforschung zusammengefunden haben, mit sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Fragen im Kontext aktueller TV Serien beschäftigt.

This book analyzes the relationship between art and politics in two contrasting modern dictatorships.

This book is about the way artists generate an endless chain of substitute objects for something they can never quite find.

This book explores the notable roles that contemporary British artists of African descent have played in the multicultural context of postwar Britain.

This book investigates a shared experience of time and space in the post-civil-war city of Beirut: "e;the suspended now"e;.

This book explores Maori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term 'animism'.