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This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our increasingly visual world. But, rather than simply providing set meanings...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-03-05
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This open access book contains a collection of rare geologic maps and figures made by Chinese geologists in the last century. Preserved in National Geological Archives of China, these artworks demonstrate the development and innovation of geological mapping technology...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-02-25
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A critical overview of contemporary design and its place within the broader context of art history A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945 introduces readers to a collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the complex areas of design that emerged...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-02-22
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Art History
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Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s - shadowy, black-and-white pictures about private eyes, femme fatales, outlaw...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-21
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Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s - shadowy, black-and-white pictures about private eyes, femme fatales, outlaw...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-15
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The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include?
Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views of the Renaissance...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-02-08
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Art History
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The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-01-31
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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the Roman world in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions.The thirty-four contributions to this volume survey Christian...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-20
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Die besondere Wirkkraft von Kunstwerken, die Gebrauchsgegenstände der Alltagswelt konkret einbeziehen, ausstellen oder verwandeln, liegt in der verblüffenden Abweichung vom Gewohnten am Gewohnten selbst. Diese Studie untersucht die Erfahrung von Offenheit und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2018-12-11
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This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries. Challenging Roman Jakobson’s seminal definitions, it examines how a poem may be expressed as dance, a short story as an olfactory experience, or a film...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-08
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Patients as Art explores the capacity of art to provide a unique perspective on the history of humankind. Fearturing over 160 full-color works of art, this book offers a pictorial review of medical history stretching from Paleolithic times to the present, reflecting the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-29
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A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2018-11-27
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With their festivals and traditional industries, their commun halls, pagodas, temples, and vernacular buildings, the villages around Hà N?i possess a rich body of cultural, architectural and craft heritage. Less than one hour from the capital are over 500 specialist...
Editeur :
IRD Éditions
Parution :
2018-11-19
Collection :
HORS COLLECTION
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The beauty of flowers is well known, inspiring creative minds from Botticelli to Beatrix Potter. But they've also played a key part in forming the past, and may shape our future.Roses and thistles have served as symbols of monarchs, dynasties and nations. We wear...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2018-11-15
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A companion to the study of the gangster film’s international appeal spanning the Americas, Europe, and AsiaA Companion to the Gangster Film presents a comprehensive overview of the newest scholarship on the contemporary gangster film genre as a global phenomenon. While...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-11-12
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Showcase Britain explores the diverse aspects of British participation in the Vienna World Exhibition (Weltausstellung) of 1873. The exhibition covered a vast spectrum of human endeavour and achievement. The British involvement encompassed not only the national...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2018-10-26
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Welcome to the Orsay, a former train station turned into a sumptuous museum. It is from here that Christos Markogiannakis invites you to embark on a very special journey–;a journey through history and mythology, crossing paths with mass murderers, stalkers, cursed...
Editeur :
Passage
Parution :
2018-10-25
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Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet since the birth of the novel, writers have been fascinated by portraits as icons, as motifs, as images of character and evocations of past time. A. S....
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2018-10-22
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