The arts: general topics

This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker, the first woman to be hired as a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City.

In eleven contributions, Visual Antisemitism in Central Europe, Imagery of Hatred deals with visual manifestations of antisemitism in Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day.

This volume examines emerging practice and research in design education rooted in the context of significant global issues.

This volume celebrates the storied career of Stephen N.

Lighting Design Beyond Theatre provides a step-by-step design process for live event lighting outside of traditional theatre, dance, and opera, including concerts and tours, awards shows, sporting events, benefits, comedy shows, corporate events, fashion shows, political events, and more.

Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experiments-unique interdisciplinary encounters and performed events generated through collaborations between architects and choreographers.

A fresh take on the group of artists known as the Pictures Generation, reinterpreting their work as haunted by the history of fascism, the threat of its return, and the effects of its recurring representation in postwar American culture.

This volume celebrates the storied career of Stephen N.

This book demonstrates the relevance and importance of cognitive linguistics when applied to the analysis and practice of graphic design/communication design.

Seismic shifts in the theatrical meanings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have taken place across the centuries as Shakespeare's frequently performed play has relocated to Windsor across the world, journeying along the production/adaptation/appropriation continuum.

This book demonstrates how participatory arts-based approaches can help children and youth contribute to peacebuilding within post-conflict contexts and to their communities.

In contrast with historical examinations centring the evolving role of the war correspondent, Conflicting Images focuses on the contribution of photographers and photojournalists, providing an evaluative appraisal of war photography in the news and its development from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century.

This is a book about food, philosophy, and intellectual property rights.

This book argues that dramaturgy makes things visible and does so in two distinct and interrelating ways: creative processes and formal elements of performance are rendered visible and readable; and performance dramaturgy becomes an expanded practice in which performance is a locus for creating wide-ranging events and activities.

The authors of Bloody April 1917 present a new volume of facts, photos, and analysis covering aerial combat in the last days of the Great War.

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936-1983) to dance.

This volume focuses on the unstudied geographic margins of Dada, delving into the roots of Dada in Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America.

This volume focuses on the unstudied geographic margins of Dada, delving into the roots of Dada in Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America.

This volume examines emerging practice and research in design education rooted in the context of significant global issues.

This book reads Alfred Hitchcock as a philosopher of what constitutes the erotic.

This comprehensive volume highlights and centers untold histories of education at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 1937 to 2020, using the critical voices of artists, scholars, designers, and educators.

The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities offers a vibrant exploration of the intersection and convergence between map studies and the humanities through the multifaceted traditions and inclinations from different disciplinary, geographical and cultural contexts.

This book argues that dramaturgy makes things visible and does so in two distinct and interrelating ways: creative processes and formal elements of performance are rendered visible and readable; and performance dramaturgy becomes an expanded practice in which performance is a locus for creating wide-ranging events and activities.

This is a book about food, philosophy, and intellectual property rights.

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936-1983) to dance.

The Art of the Eurasian Steppe is a contextual analysis which traces the stylistic transformation of artefacts depicting animals from various cultures of the Eurasian steppe, and investigates its possible influence on Central and Northern European art.

This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the conservation, readaptation, and transformation of past buildings legitimate operations.

 This edited book considers the impact of neoliberalism on music teaching, research and scholarship in a higher education context.

From intergalactic travel to the daily commute, enter this book and be transported to wonderful worlds where art and life intertwine and your ideas of both are upended.

A delightfully informative guide to two of the world's most rewarding pleasures-fine wine and great literature-that make for an irresistible pairing.

Le deuxième tome de l’ouvrage présente des manières plurielles de faire des terrains avec la collaboration de nombreux tiers-lieux culturels et autres.

Fully updated for 2014, Low-carb & Gluten-free Vegetarian offers a completerange of easy, satisfying and stylish low-carb recipes designed specifically forvegetarians, with the added benefit that they are all gluten-free as well.

Over the past decades, collaborative initiatives between luxury brands and the art world have been increasing in number and relevance.

The Elements of Art deconstructs great works of art into manageable components so that you can better understand and appreciate them.

Was haben der Elefant Harun al-Rashids, Cellinis Saliera und der Koch Antoine Carême gemeinsam, fragt man sich angesichts dieser Textsammlung, und wird in zehn kurzen, detailgenauen Abhandlungen auf ergnügliche Weise erfahren, wie diese als kostbarstes Gut ihres jeweiligen Herrschers den diplomatischen Austausch bestimmten und bis heute zuweilen sogar überstrahlen.

This comprehensive text is a unique handbook dedicated to research on boredom.

This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity?

This book demonstrates that redistributive land reform can transform the lives of poor peasants by removing distortions in the land ownership structure which allows them access to land and other natural resources which are critical for their social reproduction strategies and livelihood security.

 This edited book considers the impact of neoliberalism on music teaching, research and scholarship in a higher education context.

Offering an alternative mode of visual cultural analysis to the prevalent discursive model, this book proposes to situate analysis of Image within 'formal' analyses of culture experience.

Michel-Ange est universellement admiré, mais méconnu dans sa singularité.

Eine Gesamtdarstellung der vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Kunst und Religion vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 18.

Gegen den Strich.

L’intégration des arts dans le système d’enseignement universitaire marque un jalon important dans l’évolution du Québec moderne.

#1 New Release in Performing Arts & Personal Success Find Your Creative Artist WithinCreative conversations from some of the world's top photographers, filmmakers, Grammy award winners, TED presenters, actors, CEOs and more!

No mundo da corrupção e da depravação, o romancista e contista Hesham Shaaban nos apresenta seu novo romance "O Último Café da Manhã" em 66 páginas de formato pequeno, sobre o que se passa por dentro dessa sociedade, expondo e revelando suas vergonhas, onde a política e a religião se entrelaçam de maneira abrupta, até que os valores se esgotem e os significados de honra sejam arrancados do campo egípcio com o passar do tempo.

Cet ouvrage collectif explore différents niveaux de la relation entre art et origine, notamment comment la notion d’origine fonctionne dans le champ des arts de manière transdisciplinaire, à travers toutes les formes de pratiques artistiques contemporaines.