Examining histories of post-war Britain, fashion, modelling, photography and popular culture, 1960s Model Girl: Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History explores model girl narratives found throughout media, fashion magazines, advice literature, auto/biographies and fashion exhibits.
Photographing Ambiguity examines photography as a metaphor for technological culture, arguing that a relational exploration of the medium can shed light on the dominant ideological tendencies of our time.
This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on enamelling metal, with interesting historical information, simple instructions, comprehensive explanations, helpful tips, and more.
2024 National Book Award Longlist in Poetry In The Book of Wounded Sparrows, his second full-length collection of poetry, Octavio Quintanilla sifts through the wreckage left in the pursuit of the American Dream.
2024 National Book Award Longlist in Poetry In The Book of Wounded Sparrows, his second full-length collection of poetry, Octavio Quintanilla sifts through the wreckage left in the pursuit of the American Dream.
The Handbook of Gestalt-Theoretic Psychology of Art synthesizes contemporary research in the psychology of perception, cognition, language and hearing to reassess the Gestalt approach to studying the arts.
From Betty Boop to Donald Duck, Tex Avery to Walt Disney, collage animation to Japanese anime, and Claymation to 3D animation, Surrealism and Animation is the first book to identify correspondences between the art of animation and the International Surrealist Movement.
Examining histories of post-war Britain, fashion, modelling, photography and popular culture, 1960s Model Girl: Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History explores model girl narratives found throughout media, fashion magazines, advice literature, auto/biographies and fashion exhibits.
Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field, which has experienced dramatic shifts in the past 50 years.
Shows the Christian message within The Chronicles of Narnia(R) To coincide with the release of Prince Caspian, this book helps kids ages 7-11, understand the symbolism of the Christian faith written by C.
Taking on the myth of France's creative exhaustion following World War II, this collection of essays brings together an international team of scholars, whose research offers English readers a rich and complex overview of the place of France and French artists in the visual arts since 1945.
The "e;Things of Greater Importance"e; provides a close look into the social and cultural context of medieval art, primarily as expressed in Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia, the central document in the greatest artistic controversy to occur in the West prior to the Reformation and the most important source we have for understanding medieval attitudes toward art.
Famed for creating some of the most iconic images in European art including Mona Lisa and The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci has influenced generations of artists and thinkers, and continues to do so after more than 500 years.
Art a a Hidden MessageA Guide to Self-RealizationThis book offers a blueprint for the future of art, and shows how art can be a powerful influence for meaningful existence and positive attitudes in society.
Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture.
Before the tragedy of the Holocaust, many of the leading art and antiques dealers across Europe were Jewish, establishing dynamic cross-Channel, international and transatlantic networks.
Susanne Bieri, Leiterin der Graphischen Sammlung der Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek, führt in ihrem Buch durch die wechselvolle Geschichte dieser Institution, von der Neugründung im Jahr 1895 bis in die Gegenwart.
Im Zentrum dieser Studie stehen zwei Hauptwerke der nazarenischen Kunst, Franz Pforrs "Sulamith und Maria" und Friedrich Overbecks "Zwei Bräute" (später "Italia und Germania").
This slim volume contains reproductions of a series of lithographs of the Smoky Valley, especially the Smoky Hill River, in the Lindsborg, Kansas, area done by the Swedish immigrant, Birger Sandzen.
Starting from the premise that after modernism and postmodernism in the Anthropocene an artwork cannot rest upon its separation from the planet, this volume develops new ethical practice and thought with respect to art, philosophy and moving images.
