The arts: general topics

This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings.

In the perennial best-seller Art & Fear, Ted Orland (with David Bayles) examined the obstacles that artists encounter each time they enter their studio and stand before a new blank canvas.

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Artists are everywhere, from celebrities showing at MoMA to locals hoping for a spot on a cafe wall.

This is the third adventure in our series on cool inventions created in Asia.

What's Christian about Star Trek?

Combining thematic analysis and stimulating close readings, The Collar is a wide-ranging study of the many ways--heroic or comic, shrewd or dastardly--Christian ministers have been represented in literature and film.

His Real Life is about the young life of the West's dominant figure, Jesus of Nazareth.

In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination.

Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels.

The fourteen essays in Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain showcase the eye-opening potential of a food lens within colonial studies, ethnic and racial studies, gender and sexuality studies, and studies of power dynamics, nationalisms and nation building, theories of embodiment, and identity.

The Chronicles' Companion: Joy Through a Wardrobe is the first work in a series of poetic reflections that will be enjoyed by children as well as adults, and students as well as scholars.

Have you ever wondered how the Lord sustained Martin Luther through one of the most personally and spiritually intense times in the history of Christendom?

The Artist's Torah is an uplifting and down-to-earth guide to the creative process, wide open to longtime artists and first-time dabblers, to people of every religious background--or none--and to every creative medium.

While it is impossible to know how or when a unified view of the self and the universe became divided in our Western view of things, Gary D.

Music can answer questions that often confound more discursive modes of thought.

If you are searching for a straightforward retelling of the book of Genesis in a modern idiom, this is not the book for you.

The Broken Leaf invites you to explore the beauty and gospel images found in Japanese art and culture.

In recent years labor relations have altered significantly and new and more serious forms of labor marginalization and control have emerged.

In 1517, Martin Luther set off what has been called, at least since the nineteenth century, the Protestant Reformation.

This book attempts a close reading of the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, story by story, with one eye on her use of the Bible, and her view of the Bible in relation to her own work.

Offering a major contribution to the field of American culture and aesthetics in an interdisciplinary frame, this collection assembles the cutting-edge research of renowned and emerging scholars in literature and the visual arts, with a foreword by Miles Orvell.

Since its dedication in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has become an American cultural icon symbolizing the war in Vietnam--the defining experience of the Baby Boom generation.

In the midst of the Great Depression, an elite group of New Yorkers lived seemingly unaffected by the economic calamity.

Oregon and Washington have been leaders in the craft beer boom that began in the 1980s.

This guide to identifying lions, unicorns and other creatures real and fanciful in Chinese and Japanese artwork explains how these and other animal depictions were introduced to the East, and how their portrayals changed over time.

Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) expressed in his work a fascination with the liminal worlds that underpin his figures and landscapes.

Most artists work alone, but some find a creative partner and team up for their entire careers.

There are nearly 500 public works of art throughout New Haven, Connecticut--a city of 17 square miles with 130,000 residents.

Since the publication of The Compleat Meadmaker, mead has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in the United States.

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art.

This is the first comprehensive study of bodily images in Dada.

This collective provides a critical overview of research on the assessment of visual skills in students from six to eighteen years old.

Discovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise.

The reader Art and its global histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, to art criticism.

This book addresses a topic of increasing importance to artists, art historians and scholars of cultural studies, migration studies and international relations: migration as a profoundly transforming force that has remodelled artistic and art institutional practices across the world.

Provides the first formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest.

Bishop Richard Fox of Winchester (1448-1528) was an important early modern English prelate whose tireless service to his church, to his king and to humanist studies single him out as one of the great shapers of the Tudor age.

Drawing on contributions from practicing artists, writers, curators, and academics, Searching for Art's New Publics explores the ways in which artists seek to involve, create and engage with new and diverse audiences-from passers-by encountering and participating in the work unexpectedly, to professionals from other disciplines and members of particular communities who bring their own agendas to the work.

Offering a major contribution to the field of American culture and aesthetics in an interdisciplinary frame, this collection assembles the cutting-edge research of renowned and emerging scholars in literature and the visual arts, with a foreword by Miles Orvell.

The philosophy of the artist-teacher is not a new phenomenon.

This book is a collection of six papers from the 2004 Land/Water and Surface symposium.

Rowena Sunder, still an artist in 2018, composes a meta auto-biographical book about five years of her life in New York City between 1965 and 1970.

This book analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.

There is no soundtrack is a study of how sound and image produce meaning in contemporary experimental media art by artists ranging from Chantal Akerman to Nam June Paik to Tanya Tagaq.

Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings.

This book addresses a topic of increasing importance to artists, art historians and scholars of cultural studies, migration studies and international relations: migration as a profoundly transforming force that has remodelled artistic and art institutional practices across the world.

This book is about the destruction of art, both in terms of objects that have been destroyed - lost in fires, floods or vandalism - and the general concept of art operating through object and form.

"e;A nimble case for pretentiousness as a willingness to take risks.

The 1900 edition of Polk's Seattle City Directory listed four apartment buildings.