This book seeks to understand culture through the lens of scenes, analyzing them aesthetically and culturally as well as understanding them through the frameworks of gender, social networks, and artworlds.
Concentrating on scholarship over the past four decades, this multidisciplinary approach to representation considers conceptual issues about representation and applies different theories to various arts.
Through analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorises artists' responses to global inequities as cultural manifestations of counter-revanchism in diverse urban centres.
This book seeks to understand culture through the lens of scenes, analyzing them aesthetically and culturally as well as understanding them through the frameworks of gender, social networks, and artworlds.
Through analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorises artists' responses to global inequities as cultural manifestations of counter-revanchism in diverse urban centres.
In Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators, historian Katherine Aron-Beller analyzes the common Christian charge that Jews habitually and compulsively violated Christian images, identifying this allegation as one that functioned alongside other anti-Jewish allegations such as ritual murder, blood libel, and host desecration to ultimately inform dangerous and long-lasting prejudices in medieval and early modern Europe.
Exploring the concept of copyright subject matter through the lenses of law, aesthetics, and cognitive science, this book describes the historical evolution of a work into an artefact that qualifies as copyrightable subject matter.
Exploring the concept of copyright subject matter through the lenses of law, aesthetics, and cognitive science, this book describes the historical evolution of a work into an artefact that qualifies as copyrightable subject matter.
This guide by notable painter and entrepreneur Amira Rahim helps artists learn how to approach their art both modernly and holistically, empower their creativity, and build thriving art careers.
A growing number of animal ethicists defend new omnivorism-the view that it's permissible, if not obligatory, to consume certain kinds of animal flesh and products.
A growing number of animal ethicists defend new omnivorism-the view that it's permissible, if not obligatory, to consume certain kinds of animal flesh and products.
Including more than 300 alphabetically listed entries, this 2-volume set presents a timely and detailed overview of some of the most significant contributions women have made to American popular culture from the silent film era to the present day.
Cet ouvrage pluriel évoque la catastrophe libanaise du 4 août 2020, dans l'intention d'y répondre par une réfl exion créatrice, littéraire et artistique inédite.
This book examines historical and contemporary activist alimentary performance with an eye toward, or perhaps a taste for, what these performance modes can reveal about changing relationships between the senses, truth, justice, and ethical action amid the post-truth era's destabilization of shared notions of truth.
La nature fait aujourd'hui l'objet d'une prise de conscience écologique : une impulsion cependant trans-séculaire qui peut en fait inciter à la méditation, s'inscrire dans un rapport à la philosophie, voire au mysticisme.
Comme l'a établi Marcel Mauss, tout art se fonde sur le rythme, celui de la musique et de la danse, celui des tons du tableau, la cadence du poème, etc.
This novel details the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) efforts over the last 50-years to convert America into a Socialist State easily conquered without bloodshed.
Le mot peut-être pose deux problèmes philosophiques fondamentaux : celui de l'être et celui du possible ; et donc celui de la possibilité de l'être et celui de l'être possible.
Accorder un piano est nocif pour la santé des femmes célibataires ; le jazz est aussi addictif que l'opium ; il est possible d'attraper des MST en écoutant Elton John.
This book examines historical and contemporary activist alimentary performance with an eye toward, or perhaps a taste for, what these performance modes can reveal about changing relationships between the senses, truth, justice, and ethical action amid the post-truth era's destabilization of shared notions of truth.
This fascinating and revealing work examines the incredible power of junk food and fast food-how nostalgic we are about them, the influence of the companies that manufacture or sell them, and their alarming effect on our country's state of health.
Il existe diverses voies pour étudier et comprendre la manière dont la phénoménologie décrit la perception, et comment celle-ci peut éclairer les préoccupations concrètes de ceux qui vivent au XXIe siècle.
L'art contemporain, de par son esthétique spécifique, renvoie notamment à l'art minimaliste et à l'art conceptuel, ainsi qu'à leurs formes respectives d'installations et d'art performance.
The late Albert Elsen was the first American scholar to study seriously the work of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, and the person most responsible for a revival of interest in the artist as a modern innovator--after years during which the sculpture had been dismissed as so much Victorian bathos.
La cetra postale est massivement utilisée, mais on ignore la réalité de son impact communicationnel et l'influence qu'elle a sur notre connaissance du monde et sur notre imaginaire.
From seed to plate - the seasons of a remarkable crop Cultivated from sea level to mountaintop, from parched deserts to sodden rain forests, from the rocky Gaspe Peninsula to the plains of Argentina, corn is the grain of the Americas.
Super-Girls of the Future: Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics investigates girl superheroes published by DC and Marvel Comics in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, asking who the new-and-improved super-girls are and what potentials they hold for imagining girls as agents of change, in the genre as well as its socio-cultural context.
"e;Fourteen writers take on perhaps the most important cultural issue of our time: figure out what we're talking about when we're talking about cat videos.
The present book aims to explore how the perpetrator of crimes against humanity is represented in recent documentary films in different sociocultural contexts around the world.
Super-Girls of the Future: Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics investigates girl superheroes published by DC and Marvel Comics in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, asking who the new-and-improved super-girls are and what potentials they hold for imagining girls as agents of change, in the genre as well as its socio-cultural context.
Baking is one of life's great pleasures and in this beautiful new National Trustcookery book Sybil Kapoor brings together an inspiring collection of bakingrecipes, both sweet and savoury.
Confronting the role of foodie culture in gentrificationHaving discovered the flavors of barbacoa, bibimbap, bnh mi, sambusas, and pupusas, white middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated neighborhoods in search of authentic eateries run byand forimmigrants and people of color.
This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context.
