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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
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2019-01-31
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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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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...
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Oxford University Press
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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...
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Basic Books
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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...
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IRD Éditions
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2018-11-19
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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...
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John Murray
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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...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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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...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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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
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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....
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Vintage Digital
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2018-10-22
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Now 100 years old, the Bauhaus still looks just as fresh today as it did when it began. It was a place to experiment and embrace a new creative freedom. Thanks to this philosophy, the Bauhaus still shapes the world around us. Trace The Story of the Bauhaus through the...
Editeur :
Ilex Press
Parution :
2018-10-11
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The Story of ...
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Style icon Ines de la Fressange and globe-trotting artist Marin Montagut share a uniquely Parisian sensibility for interiors that combine a variety of design traditions into a harmonious living space.
With extensive photographs, watercolor illustrations, mood boards,...
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Flammarion
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2018-10-03
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Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2018-09-25
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'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - IndependentThe women who shaped and were erased from...
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Brazen
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2018-09-20
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Forgotten Women
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Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political "hot zone," Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era. This book presents a timely and much-needed survey of the arts of Armenia from...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-09-14
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A comprehensive review of art in the first truly modern centuryA Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art contains contributions from an international panel of noted experts to offer a broad overview of both national and transnational developments, as well as new and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-09-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Art History
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A creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman, combining his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. Art Matters will inspire its readers to seize the day in the name of art. 'Like a bedtime story for the rest of your life, this...
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Headline
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2018-09-06
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Having tried and failed to braid her 8-year-old daughter's hair into an intricate fishtail plait, Sarah Hiscox had to admit she had no idea what she was doing. When she realised a trip to the hairdressers was both expensive and time consuming, Sarah decided to fill a...
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Kyle Books
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2018-08-13
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