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Offering queer analyses of paintings by Caravaggio and Puccini and films by Özpetek, Amelio, and Grimaldi, Champagne argues that Italian masculinity has often been articulated through melodrama. Wide in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, this much-needed study...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-02-18
Collection :
Global Masculinities
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This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into obscurity after leaving New York to marry a scientist in Baltimore, and her constant efforts to reinvent her style and...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-17
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In Gods and Kings Dana Thomas, author of Deluxe, tells the story of how John Galliano and Alexander McQueen changed the face of fashionIn the first decade of the 21st century the fashion world was dominated by two very different but equally successful and turbulent...
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Penguin
Parution :
2015-02-10
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A Companion to American Art presents 35 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore the methodology, historiography, and current state of the field of American art history. Features contributions from a balance of established and emerging scholars, art...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-01-23
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Art History
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Metric Pattern Cutting for Women's Wear provides a straightforward introduction to the principles of form pattern cutting for garments to fit the body shape, and flat pattern cutting for casual garments and jersey wear. This sixth edition remains true to the original...
Editeur :
Wiley
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2015-01-22
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New Wave: Image is Everything traces the evolution of the often neglected pop music genre, new wave. Using artists from Elvis Costello to Cyndi Lauper as illustrations, the book argues that new wave was among the first flowerings of postmodern theory in popular culture.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-20
Collection :
Pop Music, Culture and Identity
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The latest book based on the popular Print & Pattern website, Print & Pattern: Geometric celebrates beautiful surface designs, patterns, and motifs made from geometric shapes such as circles, triangles, hexagons, etc.The patterns included reflect current trends for...
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Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2015-01-19
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The Process: A New Foundation in Art and Design is a compendium of 13 experimental projects designed to teach conceptual thinking and problem solving to art and design students.The projects, created by Judith Wilde and Richard Wilde, focus on developing formal...
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Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2015-01-12
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Ölberg, Pilatuspalast, Golgatha, Grabesstätte: die Passion Christi fand an konkreten Orten in und vor der Stadt Jerusalem statt. Der fromme Nachvollzug des Leidens des Erlösers in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit aktivierte diese räumliche Dimension auf vielfältige Weise....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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Das Buch behandelt einen Ausschnitt aus dem Leben der Hanna Bekker vom Rath, die eine herausragende Persönlichkeit des kulturellen Nachkriegsdeutschlands und brillante Kunstvermittlerin war und mit ihrem Frankfurter Kunstkabinett und in ihrem legendären blauen Haus in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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The study of Roman sculpture has been an essential part of the disciplines of Art History and Classics since the eighteenth century. Famous works like the Laocoön, the Arch of Titus, and the colossal portrait of Constantine are familiar to millions. Again and again,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-02
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Comunidades efímeras estudia una de las vetas más interesantes, y menos visitadas por la crítica, de la imaginación literaria hispanoamericana: la representación novelística de pequeños grupos de vanguardia y neovanguardia que transforman la vida en arte, conspiran...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-30
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'A rare and wonderful book... I could not be more enthusiastic.' Simon Winchester'A treasure trove of human history and obsession...the breadth of research and insight is dazzling.' Glasgow HeraldColour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2014-12-30
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Offering a unique blend of thematic and chronological investigation, this highly illustrated, engaging text explores the rich historical, cultural, and social contexts of 3,000 years of Greek art, from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period. Uniquely...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-12-16
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Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-12-04
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Diese Arbeit setzt sich mit dem Problem der Dritthaftung von Gutachtern am Beispiel fehlerhafter Kunstexpertisen und Aufnahmeentscheidungen in den Catalogue raisonné auseinander. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen die Voraussetzungen und die Reichweite der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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Ashes, Images, and Memories argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties in fifth-century Athens. In a period characterized by war...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-19
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Frauen sind in den letzten Jahrhunderten – ganz bevorzugt in den letzten Jahrzehnten – kulturgeschichtlich viel intensiver und origineller tätig gewesen, als dies gemeinhin wahrgenommen wird.Was genau die kulturhistorischen Dimensionen des „Frau-Seins“ sind, wird vom...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-11-13
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From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherToday, as the dominant economic force in Europe, Germany looms as large as ever over world affairs. But how much do we really understand about it, and how do...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-11-13
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Erlund Hudson's etchings, sketches and watercolours are nearly always concerned with women at work or at rest, in wartime, domestic or ballet scenes. After a mere 20 years as a professional artist Hudson abandoned painting and became involved in the world of ballet,...
Editeur :
John Catt
Parution :
2014-11-10
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