Myth and Reality in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Politics and Other Papers delves into the intricate political landscape of late 18th-century Britain, offering a fresh perspective on governance, parliamentary dynamics, and the movements for constitutional reform prior to the French Revolution.
Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature.
Myth and Reality in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Politics and Other Papers delves into the intricate political landscape of late 18th-century Britain, offering a fresh perspective on governance, parliamentary dynamics, and the movements for constitutional reform prior to the French Revolution.
In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life.
Kunst trifft Medienkritik: Margret Eichers faszinierende BildteppicheMargret Eicher verbindet in ihren großformatigen Tapisserien die barocke Tradition der Bildteppiche mit der Ästhetik moderner Massenmedien.
Rebecca Varon has a rich and diverse background in music, film, and theatre, but it was the arrival of her daughter that inspired her to begin exploring the world of handmade crafts.
What is seen in the history of Islamic nations is that most of the men of science, literature, and art were Persians, Syrians, or Egyptians who converted to Islam or maintained their ancient religions, but they flourished under the banner of Islam.
The second in a two-volume series that explores the interplay between social transformation and visual culture in contemporary China, this book examines the profound changes in the cityscapes, visual regimes, and visual technologies that shape the aestheticization of everyday life.
This ambitious volume provides a general introduction to the major approaches in this century to art theory and criticism, from the Expression Theory to Poststructuralism.
Art history is like the rest of the sciences in terms of collecting facts, examining them, explaining and arranging them, and deducing general ideas from them.
This book brings together diverse perspectives from a range of geographic settings and feature contributions from some of the key thinkers in the field.
There is no doubt that Islamic art abandoned its submission to the prohibition of photography in two great fields of artistic genius, which are sculpture and photographing artistic paintings as we know them in European arts and the arts of the Far East.
Surveying both historical debates and modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way that keeps conceptual issues comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training and makes the philosophy of space and time accessible to anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject.
People love characters full of contradictions, and throughout their history people have been passionate about such characters, immortalized by many factors, as happened with Asmahan, who will remain a mystery whose words will never be solved, as she did not leave behind documents that explain her life, which is full of contradictions.
An essential guide for not only fostering genuine personal expression, but also the courage to share our most meaningful work with othersall without pretense or artifice.
Artistic, literary, and technological depictions of the climate crisis and how they influence humanity's response What does it mean to watch a disaster unfold?
