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These cartoons are are the original work of talented cartoonist, Brian Platt, author of the best-selling book How to Draw Cartoons. The humour is fun, international and certain to help people see the funny side of everyday life.Now available in paperback and ebook...
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Headline Accent
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2014-01-03
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England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but also most...
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Quercus
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2014-01-02
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Silence and the Silenced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives comprises a collection of essays from North American and European scholars who examine the various ways in which the theme of silence is developed in literary narratives as well as in such visual media as...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-12-19
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Scenes and characters from the Old Testament appear frequently in Western medieval art, yet the study of their significance is a neglected area of iconography. A common literature for both Jews and Christians, the Hebrew Scriptures had an especially broad appeal for the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-19
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Diese Arbeit diskutiert die religiösen und bildästhetischen Funktionen und Vorstellungen, die Hugo van der Goes beim Akt des Malens beschäftigten. Im Spiegel seiner Zeit und eines seiner Aufträge, des monumentalen Triptychons für den Leiter der Medici-Filiale in Brügge,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-19
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Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge einer interdisziplinären und internationalen Winterschule, die vom 20. bis 24. Februar 2012 im Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald stattfand. Renommierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus den Bereichen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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Anders als die Wort-Sprache ist die Bild-Sprache ein eher konservatives Medium. Dem Linguistic Turn, der das Denken als Form der Sprache erklärte, stellt sich ein Iconic Turn zur Seite, der unser Bild der Welt an Formen des Sehens bindet. Diese sind nicht allein...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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Your website is the face that your creative endeavours show to the world, and you owe it to yourself to make it the most inviting and user-friendly site on the web. With The Creative Person's Website Builder, you'll learn how to create a site from scratch, or...
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Ilex Press
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2013-12-02
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In 2008 the youtube video documenting the emotional reunion between two men and Christian the Lion became a worldwide sensation. Key themes of the essays in Captured: the Animal within Culture are encapsulated in Christian's story: the implications of the physical and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-20
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Diese Arbeit verfolgt das Ziel, die spezifischen Probleme des internationalen Kulturgüterschutzes aufzuzeigen und Lösungsansätze für diese Probleme zu erarbeiten. Die aktuell bestehenden internationalen Regelungen und völkerrechtlichen Verträge werden dargestellt....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-19
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Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between theWestern canon of art, as it has developed since the Renaissance, and the art and culture of the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas. Explores the origins,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-11-18
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Im Laufe seiner Karriere als Hofmaler Philipps IV. malte Velázquez eine bemerkenswerte Anzahl von Narrenbildnissen, die durch ihre unkonventionellen Sujets und technische Brillanz hervorragen. In der Studie wird diese Werkgruppe erstmals in ihrem einstigen Bezugssystem...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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Breakfast at Sotheby's is a wry, intimate, truly insider-y exploration of how art acquires its financial value, from Philip Hook, a senior director at Sotheby'sWhen you stand in front of a work of art in a museum or exhibition, the first two questions you normally ask...
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Penguin
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2013-11-07
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In today's jet-fuelled, caffeine-charged, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to watch a film from start to finish? Let's face it, life's too short. Now, Film in Five Seconds lets you fast-forward to the best bits so you can enjoy all your favourite...
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Quercus
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2013-11-07
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At thirty one, Michelangelo was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his enemies, to be an arrogant, uncouth, swindling...
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Penguin
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2013-11-07
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Eric Gill's opinionated manifesto on typography argues that 'a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture'. This essay explores the place of typography in culture and is also a moral treatise celebrating the role of...
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Penguin
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2013-11-07
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Dublin has held an important place throughout Ireland’s cultural history. The shifting configurations of the city’s streetscapes have been marked by the ideological frameworks of imperialism, its architecture embedded within the cultural politics of the nation, and its...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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Nach zwei gescheiterten Umsturzversuchen gelingt es Louis-Napoléon 1848 legal die Macht zu erringen. Er wird der erste Staatspräsident Frankreichs. Mit dem Staatsstreich vom 2. Dezember 1851 verliert er die Unterstützung vieler Künstler und Intellektueller. Als Kaiser...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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D*Face has been a leading figure in urban art for well over a decade. A contemporary of Banksy, he is at the forefront of the urban art movement and has had a constant presence throughout its meteoric rise into popular culture.This long-awaited monograph shows the...
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Laurence King Publishing
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2013-11-04
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This Festschrift is dedicated to Edward J. Olszewski and was created by his former PhD students in gratitude and honor of a professor whose innovative and comprehensive research spans the Renaissance and Baroque periods. His research provided much insight to the arts,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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