A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholarsranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Fritz Langwho fled Hitlers Germany and how they changed the very fabric of American culture.
In The Tradition of Western Music, Gerald Abraham distills his Ernest Bloch Lectures at Berkeley into a sweeping meditation on how music both embodies and transforms cultural life.
In Hemispheric Blackface, Danielle Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje, creole nationalism, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas.
Es incuestionable la importancia que tuvo el estudio del artista en la literatura decimonónica como lugar en el que los autores podían disentir y articular opiniones diferentes de aquellas marcadas como "normales" por las reglas socioculturales de su época.
In The Tradition of Western Music, Gerald Abraham distills his Ernest Bloch Lectures at Berkeley into a sweeping meditation on how music both embodies and transforms cultural life.
This is the most comprehensive English-language compilation available on Chinese painters and their works from the late sixth through the mid- fourteenth century.
Commonly known as the "e;Arnolfini Wedding"e; or "e;Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride,"e; Jan van Eyck's double portrait, painted in 1434, is probably the most widely recognized panel painting of the fifteenth century.
Estudiantes, dramaturgos y analistas del teatro contemporaneo encontraran aqui catorce obras producidas en Rio Negro, Patagonia Argentina, del periodo posterior a la dictadura civico-militar, con un estudio preliminar del compilador Mauricio Tossi.
New Directions (1970) is a handbook for amateur dramatists packed with ideas and practical advice on production, choosing plays, improvisation, make-up, costumes, street drama, scenery and documentaries.
From 1898 until shortly after World War I, Hartmann rampaged through the photographic world, first as Alfred Stieglitz's iconoclastic hatchetman of the Photo-Secession movement, later as an unruly rebel sniping away at his mentor under the pseudonym of Caliban.
From 1898 until shortly after World War I, Hartmann rampaged through the photographic world, first as Alfred Stieglitz's iconoclastic hatchetman of the Photo-Secession movement, later as an unruly rebel sniping away at his mentor under the pseudonym of Caliban.
»Don't look back in anger«Dass die zerstrittenen Brüder Noel und Liam Gallagher eines Tages wieder zueinander finden würden, haben Fans nicht zu hoffen gewagt.
