Dancing is an art, and a number of kings and presidents, ancient and modern, have taken an interest in it, because of the creativity and moving artistic paintings that shook the hearts of the masses.
This study argues that photographs from Qajar Iran (1785-1925) of harem women, royal women, and public women, such as sex workers, musicians, singers, and dancers, make profound statements on the institution of the harem in a time of flux and modernization.
"Handbook and guide" …for Cellists and all other String PlayersBrilliant technical and musical concepts and methods by Janos Starker, the world-famous cellist and teacherSuitable for all levels: Students, Chamber Musicians, Orchestral Musicians as well as SoloistsA true inspiration!
Museums and Design Practices explores the increasingly critical role that design is playing in museums by focusing on how human-centred design approaches are being embraced and incorporated into their work practices.
In this follow-up to the bestselling The Anime Chef Cookbook, immerse yourself in anime worlds and Japan's cafe culture through 50 favorite anime foods that are easy to make, fun, and delicious.
An Artistic Autoethnography on the Public Fetus explores artistic work with the iconic image of the fetus and the personal consequences of the image by analyzing the so-called public fetus within a feminist approach.
In this book, the orientalist Ernst Künel looks at Islamic art as the last of the ancient world's arts, and that it owes much to the arts of those who preceded it, because its homeland is the West Asia region, where the highest civilizations of the ancient world appeared.
The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the relationship between these two fields and their current state, outlining key concepts and current debates as well as positing directions for future practice and research.
The essays in this collection, written by a pioneering interdisciplinary scholar, deal with the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes and the categories of difference as represented in texts-in high literature, in medical literature, in art-from the last fin-de-siecle to our own.
This is a new edition of the book "Ornament and Colors," which was written for school students to explain to them the rules and origins of decoration, give them an idea about colors and ways to coordinate them, explain their connection to various crafts and industries, and to all aspects of beauty and harmony in life, and show their close connection to good taste.
If architecture is a design-centred discipline which proceeds by suggesting propositional constructions then, Zambelli argues, archaeology also designs, but in the form of reconstructions.
A NEW MANIFOLD, the inaugural issue of SAC JOURNAL, addres- ses the increased specialisation and possible fragmentation of ex- pertise within architecture.
Cet ouvrage retrace les tentatives d’émancipations symboliques et économiques de jeunes artistes évoluant dans les réseaux de l’art contemporain à partir d’une ethnographie de l’entourage amical et professionnel de l’auteur.
Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen observer of postmodern art and lesbian feminist life who challenged how dance, art, and women can and should be seen.
Diagrams: Tropes, Tools and Abstract Machines examines the pervasive roles of diagrams as analytical, generative, narrative and critical devices manifest in design practices by architects and non-architects that draw on thick cultural milieus and that operate at personal, architectural and urban scales.
