History of art

Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life.

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular'.

This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior.

Cross-Cultural Issues in Art provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples.

This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson.

This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender.

In studies of psychology's role in modernism, Carl Jung is usually relegated to a cameo appearance, if he appears at all.

Over the years, in a variety of venues, Lawrence Watt-Evans has turned his sharp, analytical, and slightly crazed mind to everything from weaponized poetry to why the Enterprise doesn't have seatbelts, and everyone from Jane Austen to Buffy Summers.

Davide Panagia's Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity is volume fifteen of Modernity and Political Thought, the Rowman & Littlefield series in contemporary political theory.

Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print.

This is the story of a man whose struggle with poverty, artistic and moral issues inadvertently starts an industry.

Imagination is something magical that happens to a little girl named Michele.

En Reflejos: Arte Mgico (Vol.

In Aquellos aos / Those Years the author gathers a diverse collection of images captured from 1987 on, when, unexpectedly, he began his foray into photography.

Experience desert-dwelling at its most vibrant!

Two thousand years ago, Japan and Korea began a long-standing history of cultural contact.

Before the printing press introduced the notion of mass production to the Renaissance world, the written word was one of spiritual significance and unfathomable mystique.

Amid the armed conflict and broken treaty signings of nineteenth-century America, the highly successful horse culture of the plains, the Sioux Indians clutched to their way of life.

Carol Hoorn Fraser, MFA, RCA (1930-1991) was a beautiful and unique American-born artist, who received a humanistic art education at the University of Minnesota, took first prizes in shows at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and lived for thirty years in Nova Scotia with her husband John, with stays in Provence and Mexico.

Theories of Colour from Democritus to Descartes investigates issues of the ontological status and perception of colours, such as: What is the nature of colours?

The male form is the focus heretwisting, leaping and tumbling in dramatic action sequences!

High atop the Southern mountains lived the Appalachian settlers.

Klee as in Clay shows how to pronounce the most frequently mispronounced names in the arts, from Anouilh to Zweig.

In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer Le Zotte examines how secondhand goods sold at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales came to be both profitable and culturally influential.

This guide introduces aspiring manga artists to drawing chibi characterswide-eyed caricatures beloved for their cartoonish exaggeration.

There are two ages in the history of television: before HBO and after HBO.

What does the world's favorite sport mean in the United States?

In this fun Japanese children's book, kids will learn to create haiku--elegant and simplistic Japanese poems.

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Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries have sparked intense fan activity and generated a large quantity of fan fiction: stories which test the limits of an already existing fictional work and explore gaps and discrepancies within it.

Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific artists working in film.

This study questions the widely held perception that books, as an artistic medium, are superior to and more respectable than film or television, sometimes considered frivolous and pernicious.

Public awareness of bullying has increased tremendously in recent years, largely through its representation in film, television and novels.

Nineteenth-century Victorian-era mourning rituals--long and elaborate public funerals, the wearing of lavishly somber mourning clothes, and families posing for portraits with deceased loved ones--are often depicted as bizarre or scary.

This first comprehensive analysis of the Third Reich's efforts to confiscate, loot, censor and influence art begins with a brief history of the looting of artworks in Western history.

Nestled in the northwestern corner of North Carolina, the mountainous Ashe County boasts the most picturesque landscapes that painters and other artists could hope to find.

Spartacus, the Thracian gladiator turned rebel leader, endures as a near-mythic hero who fought for the oppressed against a Roman oligarchy built on the backs of slave labor.

Films produced in late 1960s and early 1970s America--along with later films focusing on that period--continue to frame our understanding of the counterculture era.

Edgar Allan Poe exerted a profound influence on many aspects of 20th century culture, and continues to inspire composers, filmmakers, writers and artists.

Action figures are more than toys or collectibles--they are statements on race, gender, class, body positivity and more.

Evangelical Christianity--the faith professed by one in four Americans--exerts an enormous influence in American society.

Generally acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research and pedagogy.

The horror genre is continually being reinvented as societal fears evolve.

This critical history of Iain M.

The millennials, who constitute the largest generation in America's history, may resist a simple definition; nevertheless, they do share a number of common traits and also an ever increasing presence on film and television.

Through the perspectives of selected best-selling novels from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century--including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, Jaws, Beloved, The Silence of the Lambs, and Jurassic Park--this book examines the crucial issues the U.

This book is an exploration of how the relationship of evangelicals to the arts has been portrayed in fiction for the last century.

Americans began chewing gum long before 1850, scraping resin from spruce trees, removing any bits of bark or insects and chewing the finished product.

Only now can we see Paul Cezanne as the invisible genius at the very inception of modern art.

This is a book about the comics genre and language, how these were used to create Batman, and how that character's longevity is largely due to the medium's unique formal qualities.