The Arts: art forms

Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations.

Western philosophy has been dominated by the concept or the idea-the belief that there is one sovereign notion or singular principle that can make reality explicable and bring all that exists under its sway.

What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge?

How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world?

The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust.

The recent uproar over NSA dataveillance can obscure the fact that surveillance has been part of our lives for decades.

This study examines the waves of graffiti that occur before, during, and after a conflict-important tools of political resistance that make protest visible and material.

With near-mythical forests of birch and pine, the Nordic and Baltic countries boast a rich tradition of religious wood carving that is in many ways emblematic of their cultures.

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present.

Flexible in approach and full of colorful examples, this textbook provides a basic introduction to what art is and can be in the lives of people who do not necessarily think of themselves as "e;artists.

Eugen Fink was Edmund Husserl’s research assistant during the last decade of the renowned phenomenologist’s life, a period in which Husserl’s philosophical ideas were radically recast.

Lukas Moodysson is one of the most accomplished and unconventional filmmakers of his generation in Sweden.

Morris Graves is a major American painter with roots in the Pacific Northwest.

Baskets made of baleen, the fibrous substance found in the mouths of plankton-eating whalesa malleable and durable material that once had commercial uses equivalent to those of plastics todaywere first created by Alaska Natives in the early years of the twentieth century.

This is the story of the books punks read and why they read them.

Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body.

The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (1755'Ai1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette.

The 2012 smash "e;Gangnam Style"e; by the Seoul-based rapper Psy capped the triumph of Hallyu , the Korean Wave of music, film, and other cultural forms that have become a worldwide sensation.

The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless.

In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon.

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "e;make it"e; in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid workProfound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social media platforms from blogs to YouTube to Instagram in hopes of channeling their talents into fulfilling careers.

This book presents an authoritative and detailed survey of the art of woodworking in the ancient Roman world.

An exploration of what it means to be fabulous-and why eccentric style, fashion, and creativity are more political than everPrince once told us not to hate him 'cause he's fabulous.

The Sales Book picks out the top challenges that you are likely to face and shows you how to maximise your own performance and that of a sales team.

The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting.

The essays collected in this volume take a new look at the role of language in the thought of Martin Heidegger to reassess its significance for contemporary philosophy.

Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century.

The Shakespearean image of a tempest and its aftermath forms the beginning as well as a major guiding thread of Logic of Imagination.

A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected identity expression during the era.

Flinders Petrie undertook excavation and survey of ancient Egyptian towns in the Faiyum oasis, south-west of Cairo, in 1888–90.

A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William JamesWilliam James-psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker-is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life's meaning and worth, and whose ideas change not only how people think but how they live.

A vivid account of Dutch seventeenth-century art and material culture against the backdrop of the geopolitics of the early modern worldThe seventeenth century witnessed a great flourishing of Dutch trade and culture.

This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded.

Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media.

Communicating God's Word in a Complex World reaches out to the growing number of missionaries, pastors, Bible translators and teachers, mission and theological educators and students dealing with communicating the gospel.

Imagína lo que podrías lograr si tuvieras tu propio entrenador personal en liderazgo.

We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it.

This is the first book of its kind to examine the development of the confessional subject in video art and demonstrate how it can provide a vital platform for navigating the politics of self, subjectivity, and resistance in society.

Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media.

Memory Work demonstrates the evolution of the pioneering minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt.

How does the constant presence of music in modern life-on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television-affect the way we listen?

David Gentleman has been drawing London all his adult life, and for the past year has spent his days focused on looking afresh at the city.

An der Ikone vom Unverbrennbaren Dornbusch lassen sich allgemeine Beobachtungen zur Ikonenmalerei ablesen.

In her authoritative new book, Maite Conde introduces readers to the crucial early years of Brazilian cinema.

In today's connected consumer environment, customers are better informed and harder to please, but they also leave a more visible evidence trail in the form of improved databases and customer information.

"e;This is an urgently needed book , as the question of choreographing behavior enters into realms outside of the aesthetic domains of theatrical dance, Susan Foster writes a thoroughly compelling argument.

For the past century psychoanalysts have attempted to understand the psychology of art, artists and aesthetic experience.

In this critical volume, leading scholars in the field examine the performance of Shakespeare in Asia.

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular'.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 - 1961) is hailed as one of the key philosophers of the twentieth century.