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The cult of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgin Martyrs of Cologne was the most widespread relic cult in medieval Europe.The sheer abundance of relics of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, which allowed for the display of immense collections, shaped the notion of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2009-12-30
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Paying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-12-09
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Your full-color guide to building a fun, functional wardrobe Fashion For Dummies takes the guess out of dress, giving you the confidence and know-how you need to dress for every occasion. This full-color guide is packed with tips on creating a confusion-free wardrobe...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2009-10-29
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This volume discusses the role of comics in the formation of a modern sense of nationhood in Latin America and the rise of a collective Latino identity in the USA. It is one of the first attempts - in English and from a cultural studies perspective - to cover Latin/o...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-10-26
Collection :
New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture. This book...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-22
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Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture. This book...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-22
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From the youngest winner of the hit reality series Project Runway comes Christian Siriano's first book that gives advice on creating personal style, building self-confidence, and fashion do's and don't's. In 2008, Christian Siriano made headlines as the youngest...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-10-05
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In the twentieth century, avant-garde movements have pushed the concept of art far beyond its traditional boundaries.In this dynamical process of constant renewal the prestige of thinking about art as a legitimizing practice has come to the fore. So it is hardly...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-09-29
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Welcome to the greatest gallery on Earth.Put yourself in the picture with this incredible visual guide displaying the best artistic works of all time. You're the very special guest with unlimited access to the world's most important art through the ages, from ancient...
Editeur :
Dk Children
Parution :
2009-09-01
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This is a book about classical sculptures in the early modern period, centuries after the decline and fall of Rome, when they began to be excavated, restored, and collected by British visitors in Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century. Viccy Coltman...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-08-06
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This is a book about classical sculptures in the early modern period, centuries after the decline and fall of Rome, when they began to be excavated, restored, and collected by British visitors in Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century. Viccy Coltman...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-08-06
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In Victorian Britain, authors produced a luminous and influential body of writings about the visual arts. From John Ruskin's five-volume celebration of J. M.W. Turner to Walter Pater's essays on the Italian Renaissance, Victorian writers disseminated a new idea in the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-07-23
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A unique reference for creating and marketing original cartoons and comics An original American art form, comics thrill millions of people across the globe. Combining step-by-step instruction with expert tips and advice, Drawing Cartoons & Comics For Dummies is a...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2009-07-08
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Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-05-15
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Sex and the City, Saul Bellow, Eyes Wide Shut, Dante and the American self, Barbara Kingsolver, acting in Hollywood, Soviet painting in Soho, Angels in America, Jane Austen in the present, J.K. Rowling -- nothing escapes Lee Siegel's incandescent eye. Siegel possesses...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-04-27
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In clear and easy-to-follow steps, this highly effective textbook sets out everything that students need to know to produce competent and visually exciting illustrations. It is suitable both for class use and self-teaching, and shows how to create lively fashion...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-15
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This collection of essays sets out to challenge the dominant narrative about Victorian theatre by placing the practices and products of the Victorian theatre in relation to Victorian visual culture, through the lens of the concept of 'Ruskinian theatre', an approach to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-08
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Metric Pattern Cutting for Women’s Wear, first published in 1975, provides a straightforward introductory book for students beginning courses in flat pattern cutting. This fifth edition continues to offer an introduction to the principles of pattern cutting, with a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-16
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Everyone in the fashion business needs to develop an essential survival skill: how to interpret the intelligence provided by the fashion forecasting industry, to anticipate and respond to emerging trends. Lavishly illustrated in full colour throughout, with clear and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-16
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