Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specificity, cultural conquest, and cultural hybridisation over millennia.
El presente texto abarca la historia del cacao y el chocolate en la actual Colombia, con la finalidad de reconocer su impacto entre personas de todas las condiciones sociales y económicas; el objetivo general para la presente investigación es: Analizar la historia del suministro y consumo del cacao y el chocolate en el territorio de la actual Colombia, para examinar las problemáticas y costumbres que se dieron en torno a este alimento entre los diferentes sectores sociales.
This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.
This student-friendly text provides a comprehensive exploration of the methods and approaches employed within design scholarship, drawing upon influences from history, art history, anthropology and interdisciplinary studies such as science and technology studies and material culture studies.
Cette suite de brefs essais nous incite à voir plus clairement à travers les images que la société fait miroiter devant nos yeux pour attiser et formater nos désirs.
This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China's socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions.
Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze shows how key modern filmmakers challenge and disturb the relation between film and surveillance, medium and message.
This early work Arthur Robinson Wright was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cultures of Scotland and Brittany (poetry, song and story) can be transformed by the use of hybrid forms and new digital technologies.
This student-friendly text provides a comprehensive exploration of the methods and approaches employed within design scholarship, drawing upon influences from history, art history, anthropology and interdisciplinary studies such as science and technology studies and material culture studies.
This fascinating new book explores the puella as an archetypal, symbolic and personality figure reaching into the classical foundations of Jungian analytical psychology, focusing on the modern conflicts reverberating personally and culturally to remove the obstacles for accessing our more complete selves.
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm.
Cet ouvrage examine le parcours et le résultat du processus de christianisation des arts traditionnels béti à leur rencontre avec le christianisme catholique arrivant.
La création artistique, est une activité fondamentale, constituante, même, de l’humain en tant qu’être social sachant qu’il n’y pas de création artistique qui ne soit sous-tendue, délibérément ou non, par une vocation sociale.
A thoughtful, engaging, and intimate history of art that offers a critical analysis of the assumptions on which the entire discipline of art history depends.
The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging.
Dans cet ouvrage expérimental, le laboratoire de recherche en lettres, langages et arts LLA-CREATIS, de l’Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, interroge la recherche-création interartistique.
From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art "e;Essential for fans of Marcus and fruitful reading for anyone reflecting on the mysteries of art.
This book illustrates how texts of German educationist Friedrich Froebel and those of his interpreters were read in England and what consequences these readings had for the education of young children in nursery and infant schools during the nineteenth century.
In einer Welt voller finanzieller Unsicherheiten bietet "Investieren mit ETFs: Schlüssel zur finanziellen Freiheit" einen klaren und verlässlichen Wegweiser für alle, die ihre finanzielle Zukunft selbst in die Hand nehmen wollen.
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Ce livre se compose d’essais, textes, poèmes, photographies et dessins qui ont été mis en œuvre afin d’assurer un accès à la différence culturelle évidente ou latente entre les deux univers civilisationnels : nippon et hellénique.
Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this book looks at the place of the poor within the multi-layered hierarchies of Byzantine society using evidence from archaeology, art, architecture, as well as narrative, theological, and legal texts.
Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology presents an introduction to cultural anthropology designed to engage students who are learning about the anthropological perspective for the first time.
C'est ici la correspondance probablement la plus considérable de Jean Dubuffet, adressée à celui dont les poèmes se sont trouvés intimement liés aux suites conjuguées des récits et des Figurations, deux séries majeures de travaux de l'artiste.
This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China's socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions.
