Blanche, égérie Chanel en pleine déroute existentielle, regarde avec application les vitrines peuplées d'objets insolites que met en scène une vaste exposition sur l'histoire du design.
This book weaves together service users' lived experiences of mental health recovery and ideas about how creative activities such as art, music, and creative reading and writing can promote it, particularly within social and community settings.
Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing.
The clown's artistry offers key insights into how practitioners in guidance & support can unlock their own capacity for the mental and physical flexibility needed in their work with clients.
How artists at the turn of the twentieth century broke with traditional ways of posing the bodies of human figures to reflect modern understandings of human consciousness.
Focusing on Central Europe, the volume proposes a new paradigm of how culture works, based on a model of "inhabited ruins" as a space where contradictory elements come together into continually renewed and frequently paradoxical configurations.
Quantité de synthèses et d'études particulières ont été consacrées au monde savant des Temps modernes, mais toujours à travers un prisme heuristique destiné à montrer l'acheminement de l'érudition vers les Lumières du XVIIIe siècle.
The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system.
This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream for black British Writers, through analysis of the social issues portrayed in plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams, and Bola Agbaje.
Through nine seasons the TV show Supernatural has delved into social, philosophical, literary, and theological themes that not only add depth to the show, but reflect our era's intellectual concerns.
A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining the appeal of artworks whose appreciation entails negative or difficult emotions on the appreciator's part - what has traditionally been known as "the paradox of tragedy".
The Invisible Dragon made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty-and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of flagging.
Filling a critical void, this book examines French women dramatists of the nineteenth-century who staged works prior to the lifting of censorship laws in 1864.
La grande diversité des législations relatives aux collections d'art privées explique pour beaucoup les difficultés qu'il convient de surmonter pour en proposer une synthèse comparative aussi limpide que possible.
In this smart survival guide for students and teachers--the only book of its kind--James Elkins examines the "e;curious endeavor to teach the unteachable"e; that is generally known as college-level art instruction.
Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the connections between his Spanish language and English language commercial and art film projects.
"Las preocupaciones de los autores se focalizan en la indagación del campo de las Artes Visuales y su enseñanza, por lo que sus temas y problemas de estudio se nutren de las trans formaciones que ocurren tras la crisis del arte contemporáneo, al tiempo que contribuyen a su constante problematización.
Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power.
Tracing the historical figure of Vaslav Nijinsky in contemporary documents and later reminiscences, Dancing Genius opens up questions about authorship in dance, about critical evaluation of performance practice, and the manner in which past events are turned into history.
A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach.
Puisque l'opéra est un art dans lequel on s'exprime en chantant, il est naturel que ce chant nourrisse la plupart des sujets d'opéras : dire, entonner, équivaut à provoquer, conclure et nourrir l'intrigue.
Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature and literature's location in the world.
Political Performance in Syria, charts the history of a theatre that has sought the expansion of civil society and imagined alternate political realities.
